Spinnaker

Spinnaker is a application management and application deployment tool which has the capability of deploying various types of applications as well as manage / provison cloud infrastructure required for deployments 

Pros:

• Provisioning / Mananging the cloud infrastructure required for the deployment
• Application deployment
• Supports various deployment strategies
• Amazing pipeline for deployments which can even update the infrastructure
• Artifact promotion to various environments based on criterias set by us

Cons:

• Does not have build capability
• The provisioning / managing the infrastrucure during a deployment feature doesn't suit our use case or deployment strategy
• Many of the pipeline features provided (related to infra) may not be used by us

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

Spinnaker Wokrflow

Spinnaker Components

Sample Application Page on Spinnaker

Sample Pipeline UI on Spinnaker