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OK folks, put your sunglasses on. The warm glow that’s always emanated from the Spinnaker community is becoming a blinding light. We wrapped the 3rd annual, largest-ever Spinnaker Summit yesterday evening with over 500 attendees getting 3 days of hands-on training, use case deep dives, business solution analysis, roadmap peeks, SIG sync-ups, and memorable social […]

Having recently joined the Spinnaker community, I’m taking the time to understand how this promising project has evolved from a Netflix-internal tool called Asgard to the leader in the continuous delivery platform space. IMHO (as a super-biased Linux nerd), Spinnaker’s ubiquity has the open source software community to thank. When it comes to enabling fast, […]

The 3rd annual Spinnaker Summit 2019 is coming up in just 9 short days, November 15-17. As an Armory n8b and the new Open Source Evangelist for Spinnaker, I can hardly wait!! For some, this exciting San Diego event will make a perfect continuous-delivery prelude to KubeCon, the cloud-native mega-conference featuring Kubernetes and other CNCF-ecosystem […]

Many companies making the move to containers and implementing Kubernetes for container orchestration come to the realization that, while Kubernetes is powerful and does a lot out-of-the-box, it doesn’t do everything. Without either outside tooling or custom scripts, they can’t automate the deployment process and move to a mature continuous deployment model. We’re a bit […]

Kubernetes, the container orchestrator created and open-sourced by Google, has emerged as the de facto platform for running applications at scale. At the time of writing, Kubernetes is crossing the chasm from “early adopters” to “early majority” in the hype cycle. Google claims that most of their top cloud customers are using their Kubernetes Engine […]

In December, Armory Tribe attended KubeCon Seattle to see how organizations across the world are using Kubernetes and Spinnaker. We met with a number of industry groups and hosted a private dinner with Spinanker users to learn their use cases and pain points. As more organizations advance down their DevOps journeys, many of them want […]

I’ve recently had the opportunity to work with many customers who are starting their journey into Kubernetes and using Spinnaker to facilitate that process. One of the most significant points of confusion is around how accounts in Spinnaker work and how those accounts authenticate with the Kubernetes API. In this post, I hope to clear […]

Amazon recently announced General Availability for Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), a managed service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to stand up or maintain your own Kubernetes control plane. Armory is pleased to announce official support for installing Armory Spinnaker in EKS. With Spinnaker, […]

TheNewStack has written an ebook titled CI/CD with Kubernetes, which contains an entire section on Continuous Delivery with Spinnaker. If you’d like to learn more about how Spinnaker works with Kubernetes, this is a good place to start. Download the entire ebook here. For a more in-depth read on Spinnaker, we recommend this O’Reilly ebook […]

Kubernetes has fundamentally changed how we view applications that run in the cloud. With integrated solutions for problems like Config Management and Service Discovery, Kubernetes provides a relatively holistic approach to running cloud-native applications. One common misconception about Kubernetes is that it’s a deployment tool, which is it not. Kubernetes is a portable container “cloud” […]