Zero-Downtime Deployments in Production: Kubernetes Rolling Updates & Migrations

A concrete engineering blueprint to eliminate 502 Bad Gateway glitches, manage graceful pod shutdowns, and execute safe zero-downtime database schema migrations.

Executive Summary

PreStop hooks, SIGTERM handling, expand/contract database migration patterns, and ArgoCD canary analysis for zero-downtime releases.

Author: Ayesha Tariq, CTO & Cloud Lead