Armory Installer™
Provisions open-source Spinnaker instances within Customer’s Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) with the following characteristics:
Spinnaker infrastructure is deployed into multiple availability zones providing redundancy and failover protection.
Multi-region configurations are also available to provide additional levels of global redundancy.
Install from source
Note: Spinnaker is comprised of multiple sub-services which must be installed from source.
For Kubernetes there is a 1.0 installer (in beta for GCP; does not exist for installing on AWS or other environments)
Armory Lighthouse™
Monitoring: Intelligently monitors health and availability of Spinnaker sub-services as well as other integrated resources to facilitate graceful restarts if failure occurs.
Audit Portal: Provides a queryable interface to perform AMI ancestry audits, with a visual parent/child dependency tree output.
Usage Statistics: Provides a dashboard with granular usage statistics. Usage data can also be sent to DataDog.
Self Supported
Release management via apt-get update.
No built-in monitoring.
Armory Composition™
Logging: Seamless integration with popular Centralized Logging solutions such as Splunk, Sumo Logic, ELK Stack, etc.
Spinnaker Configuration Management: A version-controlled configuration enabling reproducible deployments of Armory Spinnaker (aka Spinnaker deploys Spinnaker). Also enables pain-free rollbacks to previous configurations.
Self Supported
Armory Barometer™
Automated Canaries: Custom stage built into Spinnaker UI to enable kickoff of automated canaries in deployment pipeline.
Intelligent Rollbacks: Deployments automatically rolled back based on signals from DataDog or ElasticSearch (with more integrations coming)
None
Canaries must be run manually
Enterprise Support
M-F 9am-5pm PT support via customer portal ticketing system, email or phone
Tickets responded to by next business day
Best effort bug fixes to the open source Spinnaker project
Access to unlimited remote training documentation & video resources
Community Support
Support by asking open source community for help
Premium Support
Armory Service Level Agreement: 99.95% Uptime: Armory provides a pro-rated discount for Spinnaker downtime beyond 21.56 minutes per month
On-Demand access to a Solutions Architect up to 24 hours per month.
At least 1 on-site training session per month
Armory prioritizes customer’s needs in product roadmap timeline planning.
Armory guides customer team(s) on building features important to customer which can then be open sourced (This helps prevent forked versions of Spinnaker.)
Armory guides customer team(s) on building proprietary features that extend Armory Spinnaker for customer’s non-OSS needs.
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