Leveraging Azure Container Apps Labels for Environment-based Routing and Feature Testing
Azure Container Apps offers a powerful feature through labels and traffic splitting that can help developers easily manage multiple versions of an app, route traffic based on different environments, and enable controlled feature testing without disrupting live users. In this blog, we'll walk through a practical scenario where we deploy an experimental feature in a staging revision, test it with internal developers, and then switch the feature to production once it’s validated. We'll use Azure Container Apps labels and traffic splitting to achieve this seamless deployment process.
A seeming illogical design\test strategy?
This post is looking for answers from people in the Microsoft Edge design\testing team. I have been in IT system administration and software development for over 30 years but I just don't get your design and testing strategy specifically related to who gets to see new features and on what devices. Here is my gripe, I run Edge Canary on multiple systems, each using the same Microsoft account and none of installations exhibit\expose the same feature set. So how in the world are we suppose to be involved in validating features that say, are supposed to sync but are only exposed on one install? I can totally understand A\B testing, but the same setup should apply to the user across all their devices - either they see the feature on everything or not at all. Say for example the feature "Payment instruments are now synced across devices" that I saw appear today. This shows on just one device; this seems to me to be bluntly illogical? In another area, I have been able to set 2 rows of quicklink icons on the new tab page on all but 1 device; it is hugely inconsistent and to be honest frustrating. It would seem sensible to make the same Microsoft account get all the same testing features rather than as it seems so randomly assigned. Regardless, I am sure there are more users who would benefit from an explanation and look forward to an explanation. Lastly looking for a real explanation, not supposition. Pete
