Spinnaker

Usage:

• Application Management
• Application Deployment

Application Management:

• View and manage cloud resources
• Core concepts - Server group, Cluster, Application

Server Group:

• Deployable artifact - In our case docker image (Can be VM image)
• Other cofigurations like autoscaling policy, number of replicas etc.
• A deployment can consist a collection of all these and can include load balancers and firewalls associated with your deployment

Cluster:

• Logical group of server groups

Application:

• Collection of clusters

Application Deployment:

• Pipeline which consists of Stages
• Pipeline invocation from a trigger, cron schedule or manual
• Notifications via Email, Slack and SMS

Deployment Strategies:

• Blue / Green
• Rolling
• Canary