Building Canary, Baseline & Traffic Routing for PipeCD's Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Plugin

If you had told me last year that I would be working with Kubernetes and all things clusters, deployments and service meshes, I would have brushed it off. I am truly grateful for the journey thus far. Earlier last month, I got accepted as an LFX Mentee for Term 1 of this calendar year. For me it is such a big deal, given my background, and how much effort has been put in behind the scenes to get to this stage. I'm currently a mentee in the LFX Mentorship program working on PipeCD, an open-source GitOps continuous delivery platform. For the past four weeks, I've been building out the kubernetes_multicluster plugin specifically implementing the deployment pipeline stages that handle canary, primary and baseline deployments across multiple clusters. What is PipeCD and what is this plugin? PipeCD is an open-source GitOps CD platform that manages deployments across different infrastructure targets like Kubernetes, ECS, Terraform, Lambda and more. Each target type has a plugin that knows how