terraform Comparing Terraform and Spinnaker Much like our GoCD & Spinnaker article, we interviewed two engineers for their objective viewpoints on two popular tools in the DevOps world. We hope to help the reader understand the differences that... Armory Spinnaker Training We've put together a number of training resources for various audiences interested in training their organizations on the use of Armory Spinnaker: Workshops Armory recommends conducting hands-on workshops with the users of Armory... continuous delivery Evaluating GoCD vs Spinnaker “So how do GoCD and Spinnaker compare?” is a question we’re sometimes asked by companies evaluating deployment tools. While it’s a comparison of apples to oranges (a more apt comparison would... Global Software Delivery: Best Practices Andy Glover recently gave a Spinnaker Deep Dive presentation at an LA DevOps Meetup at Tinder HQ. Here are some of the global software delivery best practices Andy shared in his presentation: Favor... Spinnaker Deep Dive Meetup at Tinder HQ Last night, Armory live-streamed the Spinnaker deep dive at Tinder HQ in Los Angeles. Here's a recording of it: Stephane Fourdrinier, Director, Cloud Ops & Eng at Tinder, and Andy Glover, Manager, Delivery... Spinnaker Spinnaker 1.0 Launched We’re happy to share that Netflix, Google, and the rest of the Spinnaker community has successfully released Spinnaker 1.0. Here’s more detail on what this means for the OSS Spinnaker... Choosing Between AWS, GCP, and Azure Cloud-providers will specialize over time; the big players such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure will look for ways to differentiate themselves from the competition. The past... deployments Why Organizations Need to Standardize Deployments Standardization is a tool for efficiency: standard formats, dates, language, and metrics. Scientists agreed to use the metric system because it facilitates easy understanding of numbers and measurements across the globe. Organizations and... Spinnaker Are You Logging Your Deployments Correctly? So our CTO, Isaac Mosquera, grabbed me and said, “Hey. We should talk about auditing trails.” My reaction was: “What? We need to talk about this?!” (here is a podcast of our conversation)... kubernetes Why Deployments Will Never Be 100% Kubernetes Companies need to become increasingly efficient at what they do because all metrics and ROIs are inevitably measured by time. All good techniques, tools, and best practices are ultimately designed with time efficiency... 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... spinnaker-features Announcing RPM Packager Support for Spinnaker Armory is pleased to announce RPM support for our enterprise package of Armory Spinnaker. Here is a podcast with Isaac Mosquera, CTO of Armory describing how to utilize RPM with Armory Spinnaker: The... continuous_deployments Software: Those Who Deliver - And Those Who Do Not All users have one question in mind: Can you deliver? In the unpackaged form it comprises these inherent questions: Is what you’re delivering the best I can get? Is what you’re... Spinnaker 101 Spinnaker and Kubernetes (the peanut butter to your jam) Kubernetes: an open source container management tool for cloud management I already have Kubernetes - why do I need Spinnaker? Spinnaker is already made to fit Kubernetes out of the box and provides... spinnaker-features Spinnaker Sub-Services Spinnaker is a collection of sub-services that work together to form the Continuous Deployment platform. Each service follows the single-responsibility principle which allows for faster iteration on each individual component and a more... spinnaker-features First Spinnaker Meet-up: Accelerating Continuous Delivery with Netflix, Google and Lookout in AWS Armory sponsored this year’s inaugural Bay Area Spinnaker Meetup on April 20 at Google’s Launchpad location in San Francisco for discussion of the current highs and lows regarding the future of... Documentation Armory Spinnaker Documentation Launch Armory is pleased to announce our official Guides and Documentation for Armory Spinnaker, available at http://docs.Armory.io. The documentation consists of an overview of Armory Spinnaker along with a set of... spinnaker-features Spinnaker Feature - Management Flexibility Spinnaker ships with two core features: cluster management and deployment management. These features are easily reviewed through Armory’s Lighthouse feature. Cluster Management - Managing your Clusters and regions can get out of... cloud-deployments Why Should My Business Move To The Cloud? Before you begin: Read our Stages of Software Delivery Evolution Infographic to understand which stage your company currently falls into. It seemed not so long ago that we were still sending Word documents... Infographics Stages of Software Delivery Evolution Infographic This infographic is based on trends and learnings across hundreds of enterprises we've engaged with, spanning Fortune 100 companies evaluating a move to public or private clouds, to high-growth, software-first startups that were... spinnaker-features Spinnaker Feature - Canary Deployments Canary Deployments: For monitoring test deployments on a small percentage of servers before scaling the changes to the rest. When would I use it? When testing a new batch of code or deployments... multi-cloud The Benefits of Multi-Cloud Deployments Multi-Cloud: the practice of utilizing multiple cloud computing services to host your infrastructure. Why should I use this? The main purpose of multi-cloud deployments is to mitigate against disasters that were not in... 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... conferences Attend the Aspen EXO Software Delivery Summit Armory is sponsoring the May 21-23, 2017 EXO Software Delivery Summit in Aspen, Colorado. This invitation-only event brings together engineering leaders from Global 2,000 companies under Chatham House Rule, so they can...
terraform Comparing Terraform and Spinnaker Much like our GoCD & Spinnaker article, we interviewed two engineers for their objective viewpoints on two popular tools in the DevOps world. We hope to help the reader understand the differences that...
Armory Spinnaker Training We've put together a number of training resources for various audiences interested in training their organizations on the use of Armory Spinnaker: Workshops Armory recommends conducting hands-on workshops with the users of Armory...
continuous delivery Evaluating GoCD vs Spinnaker “So how do GoCD and Spinnaker compare?” is a question we’re sometimes asked by companies evaluating deployment tools. While it’s a comparison of apples to oranges (a more apt comparison would...
Global Software Delivery: Best Practices Andy Glover recently gave a Spinnaker Deep Dive presentation at an LA DevOps Meetup at Tinder HQ. Here are some of the global software delivery best practices Andy shared in his presentation: Favor...
Spinnaker Deep Dive Meetup at Tinder HQ Last night, Armory live-streamed the Spinnaker deep dive at Tinder HQ in Los Angeles. Here's a recording of it: Stephane Fourdrinier, Director, Cloud Ops & Eng at Tinder, and Andy Glover, Manager, Delivery...
Spinnaker Spinnaker 1.0 Launched We’re happy to share that Netflix, Google, and the rest of the Spinnaker community has successfully released Spinnaker 1.0. Here’s more detail on what this means for the OSS Spinnaker...
Choosing Between AWS, GCP, and Azure Cloud-providers will specialize over time; the big players such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure will look for ways to differentiate themselves from the competition. The past...
deployments Why Organizations Need to Standardize Deployments Standardization is a tool for efficiency: standard formats, dates, language, and metrics. Scientists agreed to use the metric system because it facilitates easy understanding of numbers and measurements across the globe. Organizations and...
Spinnaker Are You Logging Your Deployments Correctly? So our CTO, Isaac Mosquera, grabbed me and said, “Hey. We should talk about auditing trails.” My reaction was: “What? We need to talk about this?!” (here is a podcast of our conversation)...
kubernetes Why Deployments Will Never Be 100% Kubernetes Companies need to become increasingly efficient at what they do because all metrics and ROIs are inevitably measured by time. All good techniques, tools, and best practices are ultimately designed with time efficiency...
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...
spinnaker-features Announcing RPM Packager Support for Spinnaker Armory is pleased to announce RPM support for our enterprise package of Armory Spinnaker. Here is a podcast with Isaac Mosquera, CTO of Armory describing how to utilize RPM with Armory Spinnaker: The...
continuous_deployments Software: Those Who Deliver - And Those Who Do Not All users have one question in mind: Can you deliver? In the unpackaged form it comprises these inherent questions: Is what you’re delivering the best I can get? Is what you’re...
Spinnaker 101 Spinnaker and Kubernetes (the peanut butter to your jam) Kubernetes: an open source container management tool for cloud management I already have Kubernetes - why do I need Spinnaker? Spinnaker is already made to fit Kubernetes out of the box and provides...
spinnaker-features Spinnaker Sub-Services Spinnaker is a collection of sub-services that work together to form the Continuous Deployment platform. Each service follows the single-responsibility principle which allows for faster iteration on each individual component and a more...
spinnaker-features First Spinnaker Meet-up: Accelerating Continuous Delivery with Netflix, Google and Lookout in AWS Armory sponsored this year’s inaugural Bay Area Spinnaker Meetup on April 20 at Google’s Launchpad location in San Francisco for discussion of the current highs and lows regarding the future of...
Documentation Armory Spinnaker Documentation Launch Armory is pleased to announce our official Guides and Documentation for Armory Spinnaker, available at http://docs.Armory.io. The documentation consists of an overview of Armory Spinnaker along with a set of...
spinnaker-features Spinnaker Feature - Management Flexibility Spinnaker ships with two core features: cluster management and deployment management. These features are easily reviewed through Armory’s Lighthouse feature. Cluster Management - Managing your Clusters and regions can get out of...
cloud-deployments Why Should My Business Move To The Cloud? Before you begin: Read our Stages of Software Delivery Evolution Infographic to understand which stage your company currently falls into. It seemed not so long ago that we were still sending Word documents...
Infographics Stages of Software Delivery Evolution Infographic This infographic is based on trends and learnings across hundreds of enterprises we've engaged with, spanning Fortune 100 companies evaluating a move to public or private clouds, to high-growth, software-first startups that were...
spinnaker-features Spinnaker Feature - Canary Deployments Canary Deployments: For monitoring test deployments on a small percentage of servers before scaling the changes to the rest. When would I use it? When testing a new batch of code or deployments...
multi-cloud The Benefits of Multi-Cloud Deployments Multi-Cloud: the practice of utilizing multiple cloud computing services to host your infrastructure. Why should I use this? The main purpose of multi-cloud deployments is to mitigate against disasters that were not in...
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...
conferences Attend the Aspen EXO Software Delivery Summit Armory is sponsoring the May 21-23, 2017 EXO Software Delivery Summit in Aspen, Colorado. This invitation-only event brings together engineering leaders from Global 2,000 companies under Chatham House Rule, so they can...