Armory Release v2.23.0 is GA – Highlighted Updates

There have been a number of exciting updates in the latest release of Armory. Highlighted updates include:

Artifacts – Helm repo indexes, Oracle Objects; Configuration – Dynamic Accounts, Canary analysis with Dynatrace; Deployment targets – AWS Lambda, Google App Engine; Load Balancers, Plugins V2 Framework, and UI improvements.

Highlighted updates

Artifacts

Helm repo indexes are now supported for artifacts

You can provide helm/index as a type when specifying an artifact path.

Versions now supported in artifacts using Oracle Objects

In the artifact selection UI, you can use # after the artifact to indicate the version you want to use. For example:

Configuration

Dynamic Accounts

Spinnaker reads account definitions (cloud providers, CI, metric stores, etc.) from Spring properties. This works well in a world with a handful of accounts that rarely change but causes operational pain when provisioning accounts dynamically or with account information stored externally. See the Spinnaker Account Management proposal for details.

The following providers can support loading credentials dynamically:

• CloudFoundry
• Kubernetes
• AWS

Canary analysis with Dynatrace

See the Using Canary Analysis with Dynatrace guide for how to configure and use this new feature.

Deployment targets – AWS

Support externalID for granting access to your AWS resources to a third party

Spinnaker can assume a role into third party resources (delegated access) that require AWS external IDs. To configure an AWS provider, add the externalId property when specifying the accountId and assumeRole properties. For example:

aws:
  name: delegated-prod
  accountId: 1234
  assumeRole: role/spinnaker
  externalId: "unique ID assigned to Armory"

Enabling AWS Lambda in configurations has changed

The lambda.enabled key has now moved under features.

Old:

aws:
  lambda:
    enabled: true
  accounts:
    - name: test
      lambdaEnabled: true

New:

aws:
  features:
    lambda:
      enabled: true
  accounts:
    - name: test
      lambdaEnabled: true

Fixes

There have been several fixes for Launch Templates and for the Lambda provider. See the open source changelog.

Deployment targets – Google

Google AppEngine add deploy global configuration stage

This new stage was created in order to support various configuration settings for an app engine application. You can find these settings in Google Cloud’s Configuration Files content.

For example, appengine supports cron configuration. You can update or deploy cron configuration similar to how you deploy services. This stage replicates the functionality offered and allows you to deploy cron, dispatch, index, and queue configuration files to your appengine environments.

Load Balancers

Support for AWS cross zone load balancing for Network Load Balancers

Spinnaker now supports the AWS cross zone load balancing setting. You’ll see a new checkbox in the UI when configuring NLBs. This is turned on by default for new load NLBs.

Plugins

Plugin V2 Framework

The v2 plugin framework is now in place! The V2 plugin framework simplifies configuration of plugins and includes many quality of life changes for plugin developers interested in making spring based plugins. See V2 Compatibility for details.

Storage

Support for Redis SSL connection paths

To turn on SSL, add an s to redis:// in the connection string:

redis:
  connection: rediss://localhost:6379

User Interface

Support for displaying colors in console outputs

Pipelines can now be triggered by Helm Charts when they are published

Detailed Changelog & Release Notes

There have also been numerous enhancements, fixes, and features across all of Spinnaker’s other services. See the
Spinnaker v1.23.2 changelog and Armory 2.23.0 release notes for details.