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Traffic Shifting - CI/CD Glossary Definition

Traffic shifting is gradually routing a percentage of requests from an old version to a new one, for example 5 percent, then 25 percent, then 100 percent, so you can monitor the new version under real load.

How it works

A load balancer, service mesh, or ingress controller splits requests by weight. If error rates rise, the weight is shifted back to the stable version.

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