Systems and methods provide for validating a canary release of containers in a containerized production environment. A first container of the containerized production environment can receive network traffic. The first container can transmit the network traffic to a first version of a second container of the containerized production environment and to a traffic analysis engine. First metrics relating to processing by the first version of the second container can be captured. The traffic analysis engine can determine one or more traffic patterns included in the network traffic. The traffic analysis engine can cause simulated network traffic corresponding to the one or more traffic patterns to be transmitted to a second version (e.g., a canary release) of the containerized production environment. Second metrics relating to processing by the second version of the second container can be captured. A comparison between the first metrics and the second metrics can be presented.