Consul vs Spinnaker

• Service Health: Using Consul for service health/discovery has been critical to our success in a hybrid environment
• K/V Store: The Consul K/V store is the best solution out there for our particular use case, which is as a locking mechanism to coordinate otherwise random runs of our configuration management system. This has allowed us to have peace of mind of system availability in our on-prem infrastructure.
• API: The Consul API as a whole is excellent and extremely easy to work with
• Documentation: Hashicorp really does documentation well. Their examples are easy to follow and everything is written in a manner that is easy to understand for beginners with the tool.

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• Spinnaker is very strong in its ability to baking of AMI(with ROSCO) and code deployments for Linux based ec2/AMI. Below are some more points:
• Out of the box deployment strategies.
• Open Source and active development.
• Multi cloud deployments ( also can integrate with kubernetes)
• Automated triggers.
• Manual Judgements.
• In-house bakery service, which helps in immutable deployments.
• Easy pipeline setups using the UI , no need to write complex CFNs for code deployments.
• "One click resize" of the underlying ec2s.
• Exactly "one click rollback".
• Pipelines can be scripted (SPEL)
• Excellent search feature to search LBs , clusters etc from the UI.
• Both high level and low level view of clusters, which has fine-grained options to control cloud infra from Spinnaker UI itself.
• SSO and RBAC supported.
• Wide range of deployment strategies like Blue-Green , Highlanders etc.

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• We would like to see more out of the box training for Consul use.
• Best practice examples would be nice for routing.
• The agent could be easier to run.

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• Spinnaker on its own has 10 underlying micro services. Managing Spinnaker needs a focussed platform approach
• No support to deploy the artifacts without re-creating the servers. Only pure immutable deployment are allowed.
• No authorization at pipelines level

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• Consul has paid for itself just in monitoring and keeping us notified alone.
• Configuration changes can be monitored and will make even your Security team smile.
• The time saving tools will help make even a lean IT team work like a larger force.

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• As we are using it on a large scale, hosting and maintaining it is affordable.
• For few of the BU where there are fewer applications in Cloud. Hosting it and maintaining is an overhead and not very cost effective.

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