Progressive delivery shouldn't require a PhD in traffic engineering. Yet most teams struggle with the coordination between feature toggles, traffic routing, and automated decision-making. This session demonstrates how service mesh capabilities unlock sophisticated deployment patterns that are both powerful and approachable. Through live coding examples, we'll build automated canary pipelines that respond to both business metrics and feature flag states, implement cohort-based A/B testing with traffic splitting, and create self-healing rollback mechanisms.

By the end, you'll understand how to orchestrate complex release strategies using simple, declarative configurations.