Spinnaker: Multi-Cloud Continuous Delivery
Shriira Press
How a multi-cloud continuous delivery platform born at Netflix turns risky deployments into safe, repeatable pipelines.
Welcome to Spinnaker: Multi-Cloud Continuous Delivery.
Spinnaker is an open-source continuous delivery platform, created at Netflix and now stewarded by the Continuous Delivery Foundation, that helps teams release software changes across many clouds with high velocity and confidence. It solves a deceptively hard problem: getting a tested artifact safely into production, again and again, across AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and more, without the deployment itself becoming the most dangerous part of the day. This book starts with the problem Spinnaker was built to solve and the deployment model it invented to solve it — applications, clusters, and server groups. From there it builds up the pipeline engine of stages and triggers, walks through the deployment strategies that make releases safe (red/black, rolling, and canary), and devotes a full chapter to automated canary analysis with Kayenta. The middle of the book opens up Spinnaker's microservices architecture one service at a time — Deck, Gate, Orca, Clouddriver, Front50, Igor, Echo, Rosco, Fiat — so you understand not just what Spinnaker does but how its pieces fit together. The final chapters cover authorization and security, operating Spinnaker in production, and the practices that make it pay off.
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