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Introduction: For all the people out there who want to understand DevOps and CI/CD methodology better and start implementing it in their organization, I have curated a list of top 5 must read DevOps books. So let us dive into the world of books. The Phoenix Project: Authors: Gene Kim, George Spafford and Kevin Behr […]
July 7, 2021
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, […]
December 4, 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, […]
November 30, 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
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
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 […]
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
