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How to run a canary deploy

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Route 10% of traffic to the new stack — then promote or rollback.

Route 10% of traffic to the new stack — then promote or rollback.

Steps

1. Feature-flag new model/prompt/index version

2. Route 10% of requests to canary

3. Compare error rate, latency, groundedness vs control

4. Hold for a business day if traffic is low

5. Promote to 100% or rollback flag — document decision

See also: `ship-with-canary` how-to for runbook text.

**Try the lesson:** `model-deployment` in Lane D