Zero-Downtime Deployments in Spring Boot with Kubernetes and Istio

Ensuring zero downtime during deployments is crucial for modern applications, especially in microservices architectures. Kubernetes, combined with Istio, provides powerful strategies such as canary deployments, blue-green deployments, and traffic routing to achieve seamless updates. In this article, we explore these techniques in the context of Spring Boot applications. 1. Challenges in Deployments Deploying a new …

Mar 25, 2025 - 08:19

Ensuring zero downtime during deployments is crucial for modern applications, especially in microservices architectures. Kubernetes, combined with Istio, provides powerful strategies such as canary deployments, blue-green deployments, and traffic routing to achieve seamless updates. In this article, we explore these techniques in the context of Spring Boot applications. 1. Challenges in Deployments Deploying a new …