How Armory’s Kubernetes Agent Helps Enterprises Scale Spinnaker

Jul 1, 2020 by Armory

We recently shared how Spinnaker’s Plugin Framework extends Spinnaker in a number of powerful ways.

Dig in: Visit the Armory Agent website, review the Armory Agent documentation, or grab an Armory Agent PDF one-pager

One new Plugin under active development is the Armory Kubernetes Agent plugin, which allows Armory’s distribution of Spinnaker to be scaled in entirely new ways, such as by enterprises that have large-scale Kubernetes clusters (like retailers running Kubernetes in every store), as well as managing a large number of cloud accounts.

I caught up with Akshay, Nicolas and Kevin, who are leading this initiative at Armory, to learn more about how it works and what the benefits are, in this CEO interview:

The benefits of Armory’s Kubernetes Agent include:

If you are interested in being a design partner to help Armory develop the Kubernetes Agent to solve for your Spinnaker scaling needs, please contact us.

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