Apr 28, 2017 by Armory
Kubernetes: an open source container management tool for cloud management
Spinnaker is already made to fit Kubernetes out of the box and provides additional features that complements Kubernetes. Lars, a Google engineer working on Spinnaker-Kubernetes integration, says that the goal of Spinnaker is “to allow you to automate and make reliable your deployments and your rollback steps, so you can set up pipelines describing how you want to deploy to your cloud provider of choice and also safely rollback in case anything goes wrong.”
For our full talk with Lars and Matt, engineers working on Spinnaker at Google, go here
The important thing to note is that Spinnaker streamlines deploying to Kubernetes – they do not do the exact same functions. If Kubernetes requires a rollback it will require multiple manual steps in order to do so whereas Spinnaker utilizes methods such as Red/Black (AKA Blue/Green) deployment strategy to facilitate immediate rollbacks as simply as possible. In short, Kubernetes is capable of automating your deployments but it is not meant for orchestrating them.
Spinnaker is the best at giving you oversight into your deployed infrastructure – showing you what you have running, what’s eating up traffic, what’s healthy, etc. The resource mapping of Spinnaker is based on server groups that are load-balanced behind services with security rules. While Kubernetes does have this type of deployments API, it isn’t always enough to give you a fully automated deployment flow from code to production. This is the gap that Spinnaker fills by allowing for orchestration of multiple steps through defining your deployment pipelines.
Spinnaker is configured to work with Kubernetes out of the box. Google wrote the integration for supporting Kubernetes with Spinnaker and is constantly maintaining it.
For more information about Kubernetes within Spinnaker, see the Armory documentation documentation or Open Source Spinnaker documentation.
The best way to achieve this is to use the Spinnaker API instead of the UI. Everything in Spinnaker is backed by JSON based APIs so you can always create your pipelines programmatically. Netflix is also working on declarative pipeline DSL.
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