Dark deployment of infrastructure cloud service components for improved safety

A system for deploying an upgrade to a network computing environment that comprises a plurality of resource units comprising:

• one or more processing units;
• and
• a computer-readable medium having encoded thereon computer-readable instructions, that when executed by the one or more processing units cause the system to:
• receive a plurality of variants of the upgrade, wherein one or more features of each variant of the plurality of variants is different from other variants of the plurality of variants;
• select a set of resource units from the plurality of resource units;
• deploy the plurality of variants of the upgrade to the selected set of resource units;
• collect telemetry data from the plurality of variants at the set of resource units;
• analyze the telemetry data to detect that a problem has occurred at the set of resource units in response to execution of the plurality of variants of the upgrade;
• identify, based at least in part on the analysis, a variant that caused the problem that occurred at the set of resource units;
• modify the upgrade to isolate the identified variant;
• and
• deploy the plurality of variants of the upgrade, excluding the identified variant, to the plurality of resource units.

A system for deploying an upgrade to a network computing environment that comprises a plurality of resource units comprising:

• one or more processing units;
• and
• a computer-readable medium having encoded thereon computer-readable instructions, that when executed by the one or more processing units cause the system to:
• receive a plurality of variants of an upgrade, wherein one or more features of each variant of the plurality of variants is different from other variants of the plurality of variants;
• select a set of resource units from a plurality of resource units;
• deploy the plurality of variants of the upgrade to the selected set of resource units;
• collect telemetry data from the plurality of variants at the set of resource units;
• analyze the telemetry data to determine a level of performance for each variant;
• determine that the level of performance for one or more variants does not satisfy a threshold level of performance;
• in response to the determining, remove the one or more variants from the plurality of variants for deployment;
• and
• deploy the plurality of variants of the upgrade, excluding the one or more variants that do not satisfy the threshold level of performance, to the plurality of resource units.