Autonomous configuration-based release orchestration

An article of manufacture comprising:

• a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, if executed by a set of one or more processors, are configurable to cause the set of processors to perform operations for autonomous configuration-based release orchestration that supports deployment of a staggered feature release to a plurality of container clusters in different staggers, wherein the container clusters include instances of an application having a plurality of features that each have a state that may be changed, the operations comprising,
• by a first engine outside of the container clusters, managing the deployment of the staggered feature release to a plurality of staggers, each stagger including a subset of the plurality of container clusters, the managing including:
• obtaining stagger configuration data indicative of the subset of container clusters to be included in each of the plurality of staggers and indicative of an order of the staggers;
• selecting one of the plurality of staggers as a current stagger based on the order;
• sending data indicative of an application configuration update to a respective second engine within each container cluster of the subset of container clusters in the current stagger, wherein the data indicative of the application configuration update causes the respective second engine within each container cluster of the subset of container clusters in the current stagger to update the state of at least one of the features of the application to enabled or disabled;
• receiving an indication of success or failure of the feature release to the current stagger;
• and
• responsive to the indication of success or failure, performing one of a plurality of actions, wherein the plurality of actions includes i) processing a next one of the plurality of staggers according to the order responsive to the indication indicating success, and ii) causing a roll back of the current stagger responsive to the indication indicating failure.

An apparatus comprising:

• a set of one or more processors;
• and
• a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, if executed by the set of one or more processors, are configurable to cause the apparatus to perform operations for autonomous configuration-based release orchestration that supports deployment of a staggered feature release to a plurality of container clusters in different staggers, wherein the container clusters include instances of an application having a plurality of features that each have a state that may be changed, the operations comprising,
• by a first engine outside of the container clusters, managing the deployment of the staggered feature release to a plurality of staggers, each stagger including a subset of the plurality of container clusters, the managing including:
• obtaining stagger configuration data indicative of the subset of container clusters to be included in each of the plurality of staggers and indicative of an order of the staggers;
• selecting one of the plurality of staggers as a current stagger based on the order;
• sending data indicative of an application configuration update to a respective second engine within each container cluster of the subset of container clusters in the current stagger, wherein the data indicative of the application configuration update causes the respective second engine within each container cluster of the subset of container clusters in the current stagger to update the state of at least one of the features of the application to enabled or disabled;
• receiving an indication of success or failure of the feature release to the current stagger;
• and
• responsive to the indication of success or failure, performing one of a plurality of actions, wherein the plurality of actions includes i) processing a next one of the plurality of staggers according to the order responsive to the indication indicating success, and ii) causing a roll back of the current stagger responsive to the indication indicating failure.