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Amidst this growing tension around emerging cyber threats, one of the hottest topics in the software industry is ASPM (Application Security Posture Management). And rightly so, organizations must have a conversation around their ongoing AppSec practices and how to improve their security posture further. Need for a strong AppSec posture According to this report by […]
March 19, 2024
“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
Introduction Prometheus is a popular open-source APM (application performance monitoring) tool that collects data from each of the Spinnaker Monitoring Daemons, which actively polls corresponding Spinnaker microservice instances that run in the Kubernetes containers, pods, and the underlying cluster infrastructure. Enterprises SRE team usually wants to monitor Spinnaker using Prometheus to ensure high availability of continuous delivery service. Find […]
December 22, 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
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
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 […]
October 29, 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