Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service

No, CD-as-a-Service is a brand new declarative deployment offering, initially targeting Kubernetes. It aims to simplify common use cases we’ve seen while helping elite development organizations succeed with Spinnaker. Click here to try it for yourself.

Yes, Armory CD-as-a-Service is easy for developers and engineers to safely, reliably, and automatically deploy to multiple environments and targets.A multi-target deployment may be a multi-cloud deployment, which deploys the same application across multiple cloud vendors, or deployment into different environments within a single cloud. To learn more click here

A progressive canary deployment — not to be confused with canary analysis — incrementally shifts traffic between two versions of your software. You can, for example, define a deployment that looks like this: Send 25% of incoming traffic to the new version of my software, run a metric analysis (e.g., verify that no more than 1% of HTTP requests return a 5xx status code during the analysis period), run integration tests, if the preceding two steps succeed, bump the traffic weight to 100% and tear down the old version of my software. To learn more click here  

Automated Canary Analysis reads the observability data from both versions (the current version and the new version being deployed) and runs an automated analysis to automate the behavior comparison. As you deploy your change to a percentage of users, Automated Canary Analysis automatically evaluates the performance and behavior to continue the deployment or initiate a rollback. To learn more click here

In the Kubernetes world, there are 3 different autoscalers that help manage costs and resource optimization: Cluster Autoscaler, Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA), and Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA). HPA can present unique challenges when used in conjunction with progressive deployment strategies like Blue/Green. Learn more about how CD-as-a-Service optimizes HPA during deployment here

When you adopt a new deployment pipeline, it’s critical that you can easily leverage your existing test processes. Doing continuous deployment to production isn’t as simple as just deploying code. You need to deploy to test environments along the way to validate the code is working properly. You only want to deploy to production if these tests pass. To learn more click here.

The Armory Remote Network Agent (RNA) allows CD-as-a-Service to interact with your Kubernetes clusters and orchestrate deployments without direct network access to your clusters. To learn more click here.