update-strategy-canary-and-control-plane-model

Status: IN

OpenShift updates support two complementary risk-mitigation strategies: canary rollout updates use custom MachineConfigPools with pause/unpause workflows to stage worker node updates, while Control Plane Only updates between even-numbered minor versions allow decoupling control plane and worker updates — both enabling phased rollouts but at different scopes.

Justifications

Two base beliefs about update strategies combine into a dual-scope risk mitigation model

Depends on (SL): ocp-canary-updates-custom-machineconfigpools, ocp-control-plane-only-update-even-minor-versions

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