Spinnaker is a multi-cloud continuous delivery platform aimed at automating deployments and improving reliability through pipelines that manage deployment processes. It complements CI tools like Jenkins, offering first-class constructs for managing deployments, faster rollouts, and rollback capabilities across multi-cloud environments. Spinnaker also features automated canary analysis and supports a variety of deployment strategies while providing tools for seamless integration and management of pipelines as code.

1. DevOpsDays Montréal
Spinnaker: Multi-cloud
continuous delivery platform
Adrian Todorov, Container Solutions Architect
atodorov@cloudops.com

2. Stages of Software Delivery Evolution CLOUDOPS.COM | 2
Source: blog.armory.io/stages-of-software-delivery-evolution-infographic/

3. What is Spinnaker? CLOUDOPS.COM | 3
● Goal: Automate your deployments and make them reliable
● Spinnaker pipelines: Key deployment management construct
● Single Pane of Glass for Software Delivery
Use Spinnaker as your only deployment tool

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6. Jenkins vs Spinnaker Pipelines CLOUDOPS.COM | 6
● Spinnaker, Jenkins & other CI tools complement each other
● Jenkins is best at CI, but a lot of glue code to develop for delivery
● Spinnaker offers first-class constructs for deployment objects

7. How Spinnaker Helps CLOUDOPS.COM | 7
● Built-in Deployment Best Practices
Faster rollouts, easier rollbacks, and elimination of hard to debug configuration drift issues
● Automated Releases
Trigger pipelines via Jenkins, Travis CI, Git Events or any other webhook event
● Deploying to multi-cloud environments
Use Spinnaker as your only deployment tool for both VM and Kubernetes workloads

8. Deployment Strategies for Spinnaker CLOUDOPS.COM | 8

9. Spinnaker Deploy Pipeline Stages CLOUDOPS.COM | 9

10. Example: Promote to Production Pipeline CLOUDOPS.COM | 10

11. Immediate or Automatic Roll Back Capability CLOUDOPS.COM | 11

12. Dev to QA Handoff Pipeline (Validation Stage) CLOUDOPS.COM | 12
Notify QA
via
Webhook
message
to
#Spinnaker
channel
Developer
merges
code &
Jenkins
pushes to
Docker
Registry
Spinnaker
begins the
“Deploy to
Stage”
pipeline

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Pipeline Expressions

14. Spinnaker Limitations & Workarounds
● Experiment with the UI, but master Spinnaker’s Pipelines as Code features
● Convert existing pipelines into templates once familiar
● Deploying Helm charts to Kubernetes via Spinnaker still an alpha feature
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15. Chaos Monkey Integration CLOUDOPS.COM | 15

16. Automated Canary Analysis CLOUDOPS.COM | 16
● Kayenta: Open-source automated canary analysis tool
Integrated into Spinnaker
● Out-of-the-box Metrics support
Prometheus, Stackdriver & Datadog
● Two Step Process
Metric Collection & Judgement

17. Automated Canary Analysis CLOUDOPS.COM | 17
Collects metrics

18. Supported Deployment Providers CLOUDOPS.COM | 18

19. Spinnaker Pipeline Triggers CLOUDOPS.COM | 19
Webhook
Cloud Pub/Sub
Jenkins

20. How to get started? CLOUDOPS.COM | 20
Halyard CLI
tool