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After weeks of industry rumors and leaks to the press, on January 11 Harness announced that it had purchased the assets of Armory. Harness says this news “Powers [the] Future of Software Delivery” but what was (and was not) announced suggests otherwise. I’d like to share my take on what is happening and what it means […]
January 16, 2024
This month we have made OpsMx Enterprise for Spinnaker (OES) 3.3 version generally available to all our customers. OES 3.3 offers advanced features to help Release Managers, DevOps Engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers efficiently and securely operate Spinnaker. Following are the features released as part of OES 3.3 release: Visibility: 360-degree visibility for informed decision […]
December 14, 2020
Release date: Spinnaker released the 1.24.0 version on 14th Dec 2020 that includes fixes, features, and performance improvements. This section provides a summary of notable improvements followed by the comprehensive changelog. Prerequisites: This release requires Halyard version 1.32.0 or later. List of Fixes and New Features: 1. Official Docker Registry Has Changed Official Spinnaker […]
December 13, 2020
Continuous Delivery (CD) is a process of deploying shippable code through the various phases of code check-in, building, testing in staging, and releasing them to live environments in a quick, safe, and sustainable manner. Spinnaker is a popular CD tool that provides you visibility and control into your software delivery process. In this blog, we will […]
December 9, 2020
What is APM ? APM tools are used to monitor and track the overall health, performance, and behavior of the deployed app and the environment where it runs. For applications and microservices running in Kubernetes, Prometheus is a popular APM tool that provides detailed actionable metrics for the DevOps teams on the performance of containers, pods and […]
December 4, 2020
Many developers, DevOps engineers, and SREs are clearly excited about using Spinnaker to modernize their overall software delivery (CI/CD) process. And the primary reasons for this excitement are Spinnaker is open-source software and the only tool to offer hybrid and multi-cloud deployment in the marketplace. At the same time, many organizations are hesitant to move […]
December 3, 2020
Our applications have secrets. These are credentials to remote systems like a database, or tokens to infrastructure like Kubernetes systems or keys used within the application for CI/CD process. And the question always is, how can we secure this data during the process of deployment using Spinnaker? How do we manage different secrets for different […]
December 1, 2020
Introduction and Scope Spinnaker supports multiple deployment strategies for deployments to Kubernetes. Among them, Canary Analysis and Blue-Green are popular and widely used. In Canary Analysis, an application or a service is incrementally released to a subset of users. All infrastructure in a target environment is updated in small phases (e.g: 2%, 25%, 75%, 100%). A canary release is the lowest risk-prone, compared to […]
November 30, 2020
While deploying Spinnaker in the cloud, often we have a situation in the production environments where-in all the developers, QA, and DevOps team members belong to the same group in LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol). But ideally, every team member should not have the authorization to create/deploy applications. There is a way by which we can prevent people without proper […]
November 25, 2020
While deploying an application to the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters with Spinnaker, users need Azure accounts with proper authorization ( service principal key ) to access the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) resources. An Azure service principal (a special user) is an identity created for use with applications, hosted services, and automated tools to access Azure resources. This access key is restricted by the roles assigned to the service principal, giving you control over which resources can be accessed and at which level.
November 24, 2020
Why do we need a ServiceNow Custom Stage in the Spinnaker CI/CD pipelines? In today’s fast-paced world of software delivery business with high release cadence, organizations need to have the proper audit and approvals in place before releasing any applications into the production environments while using Spinnaker CI/CD pipelines. The release items need to undergo […]
November 23, 2020