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Today, almost every company we talk to has adopted microservice architecture and needs to deploy its apps to Kubernetes clusters speedily. The Argo open-source project becomes their first choice of CD tool for DevOps folks who want to deploy their code using GitOps methodology. In this blog, we will see how to perform canary rollouts […]
December 6, 2021
In the previous article, “How to integrate Kayenta with Spinnaker for Automated Canary Analysis” we have described how to install, and enable Kayenta, the Spinnaker microservice that is responsible for executing the Canary release deployment and integrate it with Spinnaker. In this blog, we will discuss what is Canary Analysis and we will also look […]
February 8, 2021
In this blog, we will explore how to integrate Kayenta with Spinnaker to scrape metrics from Prometheus and perform Automated Canary Analysis in your CI/CD pipeline using the Spinnaker pipeline. We expect the reader to have a basic understanding of how Spinnaker works as a Continuous Delivery tool and orchestration platform for deploying new software application releases, […]
Understanding Canary Canaries were an essential part of British mining history: these humble birds were used to detect carbon monoxide and other toxic gases before the gases could hurt humans (the canary is more sensitive to airborne toxins than humans). The term “canary analysis” in software deployment serves a similar purpose. Just as the canary […]
February 1, 2021
DevOps team spends hours alone in manually diagnosing, troubleshooting issues, or identifying the risk of a release in build, test, deployment stages to promote it to the production stage. This process of verifying a release is overwhelming and error-prone and delays the time to move software from code check-in to release. Continuous Verification is an automated […]
January 22, 2021
Industry Standard Authentication for your deployments Manage access using OAuth, SAML, LDAP, X.509, Github teams. Schedule a Demo Introduction Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a standard for logging users into applications based on their sessions in another context. This single sign-on (SSO) login standard has significant advantages over logging in using a username/password: Advantages […]
January 15, 2021
“We implemented a modern CI & CD, but our process is Still slow and costly.” Says the CIO of a large enterprise (Fortune 100), during an interview. The CIO leads a team of about 10,000 thousand engineers responsible for delivering 1000+ applications and doing 400,000 deployments a year came up with the statement as quoted […]
January 7, 2021
“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 […]
November 12, 2020
Today we are announcing the general availability of the OpsMx Enterprise for Spinnaker(OES) 3.1. OES 3.1 comes with new visualization and enhancements to our continuous verification platform. OES provides SREs and Ops teams the ability of cross-tier correlation of metrics/logs for faster diagnosis of anomalies in production. Another feature that will be useful for release […]
October 22, 2020
Overview Kayenta is an open source automated canary analysis tool used to evaluate the readiness for production of a new version of a software. Kayenta is based on a tool developed internally by Netflix, and it was integrated with Google’s help into Spinnaker to perform automated canary release across multiple clouds. The new software version […]
December 13, 2018
If you are a Spinnaker Open Source user, you are probably waiting for the automated canary analysis (Kayenta project) to be made available publicly. Kayenta project is being actively developed by Netflix and the Google team. and the good news is that it is close to being released (targeted for 1.7 version) You can hear […]
March 29, 2018
