Isaac Mosquera Getting Started Key SDLC Performance Metrics for VPs of Engineering Continuous delivery done well is data-driven. Data drives decisions about what to work on and how to work on it, and it tells us whether the changes are working properly and whether things... Circle CI Robust CD with Spinnaker & CircleCI Spinnaker bills itself as a continuous delivery platform for the enterprise. Continuous delivery scopes in many technical practices and tools and begins with continuous integration, which in turn also brings its own practices... Total Automation with Spinnaker and Ansible Spinnaker and Ansible often get lumped together as automation tools. Teams can automate deployment workflows with Ansible. Spinnaker also automates deployments, so why use both? People mistakenly think that using one makes use... Testing Microservices in Production? Canaries Can Help I recently gave a talk at a Meetup about testing microservices in production, and how canaries can assist harried engineers with this once-stressful process. I also helped author the Microservices for Startups book.... Spinnaker Keeping developers happy and productive A common saying is that "People leave managers not companies.” While 50% say that’s true; this post isn’t about that. It’s about keeping the other 50% happy and productive.... Spinnaker Everyone Talks About It; Few Manage To Do It: Shipping Small Diffs Podcast with Isaac and Colin from the Armory tribe where Isaac explains “Ship Small Diffs” and what the value surrounding it is: During an on-site visit with a client, I saw “Ship Small... Feature_Flags Feature Flags vs Canaries Feature flags and canaries have different objectives despite appearing similar: Feature flags expose a specific feature to a sample set of users and then measures it’s impact. Canaries expose a specific version... My Pipeline Is Stuck On "Wait For Up Instances" While executing a pipeline you might have run into this issue when not using an ELB where the pipeline gets stuck on "Wait for Up Instances" Why does this happen? Spinnaker... Armory: Now, and What's Next Now: Armory’s Focus & Priorities It’s still early days for both Spinnaker and Armory. After speaking in-depth to developers and engineering leaders at over 137 Global 2,000 enterprises, we found... AWS S3 Outage and Spinnaker Multi-Region Support We are reminded again today (Feb 28, 2017) about the fragility of the Internet. S3 is still down in us-east-1 and currently affecting pretty much every known business running on AWS and effectively... Out-of-the-Box Rollbacks With Spinnaker What Spinnaker Considers a Version One of the great features from Spinnaker is the ability to have consistent & dependable rollbacks to previous version of your service. This is distinct from your application... Using Spinnaker with Chef & Puppet Spinnaker takes a opinionated approach to deploying software. Well, Spinnaker doesn't really deploy software, it deploys infrastructure. The concept is better known immutable infrastructure. When changes are needed in production, the old infrastructure... State of Spinnaker Armory Spinnaker Release Version 1.2.0 "**Version 1.2.0** is your Spinnaker Sherpa, guiding you up the long Continuous Delivery Mt. Everest journey, and shouldering the heavy load for you!" - Isaac As always, we strive to provide... Fine Grained Rate Limits for Spinnaker Clouddriver When using Spinnaker, it queries your cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, etc) frequently to understand about the state of your existing infrastructure and current deployments. In doing so however, you might run... Why Are My Jenkins Jobs Not Showing Up in Spinnaker? This is a common problem we see typically because Igor is not enabled. You can confirm this is true by looking at the Spinnaker Gate API to see if gate is getting any... Armory Spinnaker Admin Documentation Installing Armory Spinnaker from the Debian Package We provide a Debian package that will install all the dependencies needed. To install the debian package, currently the only supported OS is Ubuntu Trusty, 14.... Armory Spinnaker Documentation This documentation can help you set up Armory Spinnaker, safely administer the system, and learn about how to use the system. If you want to know more about Armory Spinnaker read What is... Faster AMI Baking with Enterprise Spinnaker and Packer By default, most Spinnaker users bake AMIs via EBS volumes. However, we've found that faster AMI bake times can be achieved using chroot. In this video, I'll show you how it's done: If... If Software is Eating the World, Then You Better Know How To Code At Armory we absolutely agree with Andreesen's notorious statement about Software Eating the World. Seems obvious now, but hindsight is always 20/20. If Andreesen and we are correct, then you better know... multi-cloud Multi Cloud Deployments with Spinnaker As we continue to see a massive move to the cloud by Global 2,000 enterprises, there is a real concern about vendor lock-in to the large cloud vendors like Amazon AWS, Google... Why CEOs Should Care About Software Deployments Software deployments have historically been seen as a technical activity that “the engineers will handle” but as software permeates everything around us, your software (and its deployments) directly impact your relationship with your... kubernetes Why (and How) Spinnaker and Kubernetes Work Together Seamlessly The adoption of Kubernetes is happening at an incredible rate. Naturally, the next step is to look for tooling to support continuous deployments workflows with Kubernetes. In this quick interview with Lars Wander... releases Armory Spinnaker Release v0.61 We're happy to announce the release of Spinnaker v0.61. The benefits: Community Edition: v0.61 is a free distribution that anyone can install, and is guaranteed to work (you don't need to... Injecting a prebaked AMI (and other parameters) into a Spinnaker Pipeline While Spinnaker has a preferred way of doing things it's also highly customizable. The easiest way to use Spinnaker is to have it bake your pipeline using Rosco + Packer and pass it along... Complex Pipelines With Spinnaker While Spinnaker is best known for it's sophisticated cloud deployment strategies, Spinnaker is also very customizable and is suited to fit most types of workflows. The video demonstrates how to use Spinnaker to...
Getting Started Key SDLC Performance Metrics for VPs of Engineering Continuous delivery done well is data-driven. Data drives decisions about what to work on and how to work on it, and it tells us whether the changes are working properly and whether things...
Circle CI Robust CD with Spinnaker & CircleCI Spinnaker bills itself as a continuous delivery platform for the enterprise. Continuous delivery scopes in many technical practices and tools and begins with continuous integration, which in turn also brings its own practices...
Total Automation with Spinnaker and Ansible Spinnaker and Ansible often get lumped together as automation tools. Teams can automate deployment workflows with Ansible. Spinnaker also automates deployments, so why use both? People mistakenly think that using one makes use...
Testing Microservices in Production? Canaries Can Help I recently gave a talk at a Meetup about testing microservices in production, and how canaries can assist harried engineers with this once-stressful process. I also helped author the Microservices for Startups book....
Spinnaker Keeping developers happy and productive A common saying is that "People leave managers not companies.” While 50% say that’s true; this post isn’t about that. It’s about keeping the other 50% happy and productive....
Spinnaker Everyone Talks About It; Few Manage To Do It: Shipping Small Diffs Podcast with Isaac and Colin from the Armory tribe where Isaac explains “Ship Small Diffs” and what the value surrounding it is: During an on-site visit with a client, I saw “Ship Small...
Feature_Flags Feature Flags vs Canaries Feature flags and canaries have different objectives despite appearing similar: Feature flags expose a specific feature to a sample set of users and then measures it’s impact. Canaries expose a specific version...
My Pipeline Is Stuck On "Wait For Up Instances" While executing a pipeline you might have run into this issue when not using an ELB where the pipeline gets stuck on "Wait for Up Instances" Why does this happen? Spinnaker...
Armory: Now, and What's Next Now: Armory’s Focus & Priorities It’s still early days for both Spinnaker and Armory. After speaking in-depth to developers and engineering leaders at over 137 Global 2,000 enterprises, we found...
AWS S3 Outage and Spinnaker Multi-Region Support We are reminded again today (Feb 28, 2017) about the fragility of the Internet. S3 is still down in us-east-1 and currently affecting pretty much every known business running on AWS and effectively...
Out-of-the-Box Rollbacks With Spinnaker What Spinnaker Considers a Version One of the great features from Spinnaker is the ability to have consistent & dependable rollbacks to previous version of your service. This is distinct from your application...
Using Spinnaker with Chef & Puppet Spinnaker takes a opinionated approach to deploying software. Well, Spinnaker doesn't really deploy software, it deploys infrastructure. The concept is better known immutable infrastructure. When changes are needed in production, the old infrastructure...
State of Spinnaker Armory Spinnaker Release Version 1.2.0 "**Version 1.2.0** is your Spinnaker Sherpa, guiding you up the long Continuous Delivery Mt. Everest journey, and shouldering the heavy load for you!" - Isaac As always, we strive to provide...
Fine Grained Rate Limits for Spinnaker Clouddriver When using Spinnaker, it queries your cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, etc) frequently to understand about the state of your existing infrastructure and current deployments. In doing so however, you might run...
Why Are My Jenkins Jobs Not Showing Up in Spinnaker? This is a common problem we see typically because Igor is not enabled. You can confirm this is true by looking at the Spinnaker Gate API to see if gate is getting any...
Armory Spinnaker Admin Documentation Installing Armory Spinnaker from the Debian Package We provide a Debian package that will install all the dependencies needed. To install the debian package, currently the only supported OS is Ubuntu Trusty, 14....
Armory Spinnaker Documentation This documentation can help you set up Armory Spinnaker, safely administer the system, and learn about how to use the system. If you want to know more about Armory Spinnaker read What is...
Faster AMI Baking with Enterprise Spinnaker and Packer By default, most Spinnaker users bake AMIs via EBS volumes. However, we've found that faster AMI bake times can be achieved using chroot. In this video, I'll show you how it's done: If...
If Software is Eating the World, Then You Better Know How To Code At Armory we absolutely agree with Andreesen's notorious statement about Software Eating the World. Seems obvious now, but hindsight is always 20/20. If Andreesen and we are correct, then you better know...
multi-cloud Multi Cloud Deployments with Spinnaker As we continue to see a massive move to the cloud by Global 2,000 enterprises, there is a real concern about vendor lock-in to the large cloud vendors like Amazon AWS, Google...
Why CEOs Should Care About Software Deployments Software deployments have historically been seen as a technical activity that “the engineers will handle” but as software permeates everything around us, your software (and its deployments) directly impact your relationship with your...
kubernetes Why (and How) Spinnaker and Kubernetes Work Together Seamlessly The adoption of Kubernetes is happening at an incredible rate. Naturally, the next step is to look for tooling to support continuous deployments workflows with Kubernetes. In this quick interview with Lars Wander...
releases Armory Spinnaker Release v0.61 We're happy to announce the release of Spinnaker v0.61. The benefits: Community Edition: v0.61 is a free distribution that anyone can install, and is guaranteed to work (you don't need to...
Injecting a prebaked AMI (and other parameters) into a Spinnaker Pipeline While Spinnaker has a preferred way of doing things it's also highly customizable. The easiest way to use Spinnaker is to have it bake your pipeline using Rosco + Packer and pass it along...
Complex Pipelines With Spinnaker While Spinnaker is best known for it's sophisticated cloud deployment strategies, Spinnaker is also very customizable and is suited to fit most types of workflows. The video demonstrates how to use Spinnaker to...
