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Amidst a new year of new ideas, new challenges, and new technologies, what is the role of Spinnaker in 2023? For enterprises around the world, including some of the world’s largest, Spinnaker will continue to be the foundation for large-scale, controlled, and highly available software delivery across application environments. I shared my thoughts on the […]
January 4, 2023
Intro to CD Adopting containers is a common strategy for enterprises today to roll out new application changes quickly, deploy efficiently and run applications securely. To achieve those goals, many enterprises are now adopting continuous delivery (CD) in order to deploy changes into production quickly, frequently, and safely. Many CD tools are used to deliver […]
October 14, 2022
Introduction It’s no secret that empowered teams are happier, create better products, and allow product leaders to spend more time on product discovery and strategy. Most organizations today aim to create autonomy among their teams by establishing shared goals. This allows managers of product teams to solve the biggest and most urgent problems seamlessly. But […]
September 19, 2022
Software deployment is an inherently risky process. And the risk increases with scale. The more updates and pipelines, the greater the risk. Most organizations still use manual methods to analyze deployment errors and assess risks. Not only is this painfully tedious, but also a laborious and error-prone task. That is why organizations must gain insights […]
August 31, 2022
Over the last five years, innovation has been accelerating in Continuous Delivery. For example, Kubernetes is becoming the platform of choice for managing containers, and practices like progressive delivery and GitOps are becoming mainstream. This transformation has been fueled by community platforms such as Jenkins, Argo, and Spinnaker. However, as IT organizations scale their Continous […]
August 24, 2022
Open source software is mainstream. Most businesses today have either already adopted open-source software or are thinking to adopt one. In fact, a survey found that “89% of businesses run open-source software internally, while 65% contribute to open-source software projects.“ Spinnaker is a widely deployed open-source Continuous Delivery (CD) platform adopted by thousands of enterprises. It was […]
July 27, 2022
Introduction DevOps methodologies have evolved over the years. And so have the deployments. Today, as businesses are increasingly transitioning to multi-cloud or cloud-first strategies, deployments are far more automated as well as complex than they used to be a decade ago. Additionally, the increasing demand for microservices requires businesses to use tools like Kubernetes. This […]
July 19, 2022
Problem Introduction: In Part 1, We have seen how to automate the process of increasing the limits/requests for the pods memory/cpu using the webhook alerts feature of alert manager and webhook triggered pipelines of spinnaker. In Part 2, , it was shown how to use verticalpodautoscaler (VPA) to get the recommendations for pod memory and cpu requests as […]
June 30, 2022
Problem Introduction: In Part 1, We have seen how to automate the process of increasing the limits/requests for the pods memory/cpu using the webhook alerts feature of alert manager and webhook triggered pipelines of spinnaker. But what value should we patch? How to decide on the optimal values for cpu/memory as these values varies from application […]
June 28, 2022
Businesses have rapidly embraced GitOps as a standard Kubernetes deployment strategy as it helps them deploy applications in the shortest possible time. This is enabled by Argo, the most popular GitOps tool for rapid deployments. Argo Rollout, a reliable Progressive Delivery tool for Kubernetes, provides deployment strategies like blue-green and canary deployments. Thus, with GitOps, […]
June 23, 2022
Problem Introduction: Kubernetes does a good job in self healing and application recovery from failure. New pods come up in the place of pods that crash. One reason for pods failing in kubernetes cluster is the memory consumed exceeding the limit set. In this case, kubernetes pods are OOM killed ( out of memory) and […]
June 21, 2022