Design a Release Strategy

MS Learn path: Design and implement a release strategy — module 2.

Overview

Covers how to choose and design a release strategy: selecting rollout patterns based on risk, defining progressive exposure, and planning release cadence and approvals.

Units

• Choosing a release strategy
• Progressive delivery concepts
• Release cadence & approvals
• Considerations for rollout (blast radius, monitoring)

Concepts introduced

• Release strategy
• Deployment rings
• Feature flags
• Canary deployment

Key terms & commands

• Progressive exposure — release to a small group, observe, expand.
• Blast radius — how many users a bad release affects; minimize it.
• Choose pattern by risk tolerance & zero-downtime needs.

Hands-on

⚠ verify — add an exercise designing a rollout for a sample app.

Exam focus

• Match rollout patterns to scenarios (rings, canary, feature flags).
• Understand how telemetry/validation drives rollout decisions.

Related

release-strategy · deployment-ring · feature-flags · cd · Path MOC