[Meta][Fleet] Add support for progressive or canary deployments

[mostlyjason]

With standalone Elastic Agent and Beats you can deploy configuration files progressively using third party solutions. Fleet does not have a feature to deploy a policy update progressively. Users could manually do it by updating agent policies but its not very convenient. We should provide a capability to test an agent policy update on a subset of agents, and then promote it to a larger group once we are confident it works well.

[elasticmachine]

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[rdrgporto]

Hi,

Any updates on this?

Thanks in advance ☺️,

Regards

[cmacknz]

We are working on a technical design, for this we are also trying to cover #120735.

The early thinking is around putting target agent versions and percentages of agents that should use those versions directly in agent policies.

[cmacknz]

At the same time, we are also working to support rollbacks properly #172745