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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
While deploying Spinnaker in the cloud, often we have a situation in the production environments where-in all the developers, QA, and DevOps team members belong to the same group in LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol). But ideally, every team member should not have the authorization to create/deploy applications. There is a way by which we can prevent people without proper […]
November 25, 2020
While deploying an application to the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters with Spinnaker, users need Azure accounts with proper authorization ( service principal key ) to access the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) resources. An Azure service principal (a special user) is an identity created for use with applications, hosted services, and automated tools to access Azure resources. This access key is restricted by the roles assigned to the service principal, giving you control over which resources can be accessed and at which level.
November 24, 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 […]
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