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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
The month of November has started and startled all with the hint of incessant efforts humanity has made towards progression; “effective and safe” covid-19 antidote to stop the pandemic. We at OpsMx similarly did not cease to make progress in software delivery in our own way. Increasing number of customers are downloading and using OpsMx […]
November 20, 2020
Spinnaker is a Continuous Delivery (CD) platform that was developed at Netflix where they used it to perform a high number of deployments ( 8000+/day). Later they made it available as an open-source tool. Previously enterprise release cycles used to be stretched for 7/8 months. But with the availability of the Spinnaker CD tool, enterprises […]
November 19, 2020
Ksync is a file synchronization tool for Kubernetes-native application development. It speeds up developers who build applications for Kubernetes. It saves you time during new feature development and it allows you to iterate on the code without the overhead of running through your entire automated pipeline every single time. Ksync transparently updates containers running on the remote Kubernetes cluster […]
November 13, 2020
What is K3s? K3s is a light-weight Kubernetes cluster designed to be a single binary of less than 40MB that completely implements the Kubernetes API. Due to its low resource requirements, it’s possible to run a cluster on anything from 512MB of RAM machines upwards. Find more information here. Prerequisites: EC2 instance with at least 6 core […]
November 12, 2020
“Faster Releases leads to increasing Failures” – Gartner Study, 2017 According to a 2017 Gartner Study, it was found that as organizations try to increase their speed of delivery of software applications the failures increased significantly. Failure rates increased when those organizations tried to increase the delivery frequency from monthly to weekly/ daily or hourly […]
Here in this blog, we will walk you through the steps to use Helm Charts to install Spinnaker on a local Kubernetes cluster (installed using Minikube). Before getting started with installation steps we take a quick look at what each of these applications is: Spinnaker is an open-source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes […]
November 10, 2020
Welcome to the OpsMx’s Tech Talk series about quick insight into Spinnaker. In this edition we will explain how to build your first Continuous Delivery pipeline that deploys to a Kubernetes cluster. Here is a short video for the topic: What is a pipeline in Spinnaker? Pipelines are a way of managing deployments in a […]
October 29, 2020
Continuous Delivery Continuous Delivery (CD) is the approach to get a new software release deployed into production quickly, safely, and in a sustainable manner through a straightforward and repeatable deployment process. The new release version of Spinnaker, a tool for Continuous Delivery, incorporates change requests, bug fixes, configuration changes, and so on. It aims at […]
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA) brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). It provides free SSL certificates but does not provide DNS routes for the domain address to IP address. Currently, we use GoDaddy certificates, ( along with their DNS service) which is a paid […]
October 28, 2020
The authentication mechanism in Spinnaker supports a variety of different login sources. There are three basic systems involved with Spinnaker’s authentication workflow: your identity provider (IDP), Gate, and Deck. x509 client certificates can be used as an identity provider. What is x509? x509 is a standard defining the format of public-key certificates. An x509 certificate […]
October 26, 2020