Name: Spinnaker
Rating: 7.9 (5 reviews)
Author: Netflix

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)

Development

Audit

Board Management

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Enterprise Legal Management

Transportation & Logistics

Enterprise

Accounting

Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

Subscription Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Recognition

HR Management

Payroll

Succession Planning

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

3D Printers

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Bot Mitigation

Cloud Storage

Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)

Data Mapping

Data Pipeline

Desktop Management

Desktop Outsourcing

Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

Fraud Detection

Hosted Virtual Desktop

IT Operations Analytics

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Internet of Things (IoT)

Interoperability

Network Performance Monitoring

Relational Database Management Systems

Smart Contracts

Tape Storage

Vulnerability Management

Workload Automation

Information Technology

A/B Testing

AI Writing Assistant Software

Ad Serving & Retargeting

Affiliate

All-in-One Marketing

Contact Management

Content Management

Contest Management

Digital Asset Management

Email Marketing

Gamification

Marketing Automation

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Video Collaboration

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

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Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Intelligent Virtual Assistant

Multichannel Retail

Presales

Sales

Certificate Lifecycle Management

Database Security

GDPR Compliance

Security

Construction Accounting

Hotel Management

Loan Servicing

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CloudBees

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Users commonly recommend:

1. Consider using GitLab instead of the current tool invested in. Many users believe that GitLab is a better alternative and can offer more benefits.

2. Start utilizing Spinnaker for faster deployments and make customized changes to Spinnaker pods for specific use cases. Users find that Spinnaker enables them to streamline their deployment processes and tailor it to their specific needs.

3. Take advantage of the available resources to understand the runtime behavior of Spinnaker. Users recommend joining the Slack community, reading the documentation, blogs, and watching videos from the Spinnaker summit to gain valuable insights into how Spinnaker operates.

Overall, users highly recommend trying out Spinnaker as it offers many advantages, such as numerous plugins and support for deploying cloud-based delivery models. However, they acknowledge that setting up and configuring everything in Spinnaker can be time-consuming and requires effort. Despite this initial investment, many users find that once installed and configured, Spinnaker significantly simplifies and enhances their work processes.

Easy-to-use User Interface: Users have praised the user interface of Spinnaker, describing it as good, perfect, sleek, and user-friendly. The UI was considered to be perfect and made it easy for users to navigate and use the tool effectively.

Seamless Deployment Process: Users appreciated the easy setup and configuration of Spinnaker, making it a go-to tool for deploying EC2 and Kubernetes. They found it very easy to use and coordinate build and deployment processes on multiple clouds.

Wide Integration with Cloud Providers: The fact that Spinnaker integrates well with many cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, and Kubernetes was highly appreciated by users. This seamless integration allows them to fully control and deploy their entire infrastructure without any hassle.

Dated User Interface: Several users have mentioned that they find the user interface of Spinnaker to be dated and sometimes struggle to locate certain features or functions.

Difficult Configuration Process: Many reviewers have expressed frustration with the setup and configuration process of Spinnaker, describing it as cumbersome and even a nightmare in some cases. Some users also noted that the knowledge base lacks important information for specific setups.

Lack of Plugin Options: A common complaint among users is the lack of plugin options similar to Jenkins, making it challenging to manage source control, run tests, and build packages. This limitation has caused difficulties for some reviewers in their workflow.

Users have found the software to be effective for continuous delivery and deployment. It allows them to automate the entire process and monitor deployments without needing to log into consoles. The software enables quick deployments to various environments including Sandbox, Test, Branch, QA, Systest, Sectest, Staging, and PROD. It has been instrumental in transitioning from manual release and deployment processes to a one-click deployment functionality, reducing bottlenecks and the need for constant supervision.
 
Users have successfully implemented continuous deployment on Kubernetes clusters using the software alongside Jenkins as a CI tool. The software has simplified deployments in client environments where complex processes were previously required, resulting in over 200 successful deployments in the past 6 months. Users have found it helpful for solving cloud hosting issues and seamlessly integrating software. They appreciate the ability to control and manage deployments in a multi-account setup through a single-point deployment tool. The software supports continuous deployment of Kubernetes manifests and delivery to AWS.

It facilitates the deployment of AMIs on AWS EC2 instances using a CDO model. Particularly useful for cloud-based deployments, especially on AWS, it provides a visual environment for managing CI and deployment steps. While some users have encountered limitations with non-JVM projects, others have found success using the software as their main CD platform for Kubernetes-based products. Users have plans to expand deployment to other cloud providers like Azure. The software is being used by specific teams and read-only profiles for the development team.

Users adopt the software to enable fast, frequent, and fearless deployments, improve service operations, and facilitate AWS migrations. It promotes patterns and practices around CI/CD and agile, iterative delivery, which users believe brings value to their customers.

Spinnaker is an open source continuous delivery platform with a range of cluster management and deployment management features, originally developed at Netflix.

Australian company Octopus Deploy offers their eponymous automated deployment and release management software that integrates with the user's preferred CI server and adds deployment & ops automation capabilities. Octopus Deploy enables developers, release managers, and operations folks to bring all automation into a single place. The vendor states that by reusing configuration variables, environment definition, API keys, connection strings, permissions, service principals, and automation logic, teams work together from Octopus Deploy.

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Harness, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, is a Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform designed to provide a simple, safe and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. 

Founded in 2016, Harness uses machine learning to detect the quality of deployments and automatically roll back failed ones, saving time and reducing the need for custom scripting and manual oversight.

Team

Free

Community

Harness

Spinnaker

Release management software automates managing the release of software and applications from development stage to software release at a finer more technical grain than project management software.

Release Management

Likelihood to Recommend

Netflix

Open Source Puppet

Lens Kubernetes IDE

Senior Devops Engineer

Spinnaker 2021-04-22 10:37:37

AWS CodePipeline

Sr. Devops Mgr.  ( Tools, automations , Release Engineering/ CICD , AWS  )

Spinnaker 2018-05-16 22:14:37

Progress Chef

Spinnaker 2018-05-17 00:58:23

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Micro services

No support

Based systems

Level access

User authentication

Not straight forward

User interface

Not support

Bit confusing

Windows based

One click

Multi cloud

Application management

Cloud deployment

Search feature

Continuous deployment

Low level

Linux based

Fine grained

Continuous delivery

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Release Management Tools

We are using Spinnaker as our main CD platform for one of our products which is based on Kubernetes. At this moment, the environment is based in just one cloud provider (AWS) but we have plans to deploy also in Azure. Currently it is being used just for my team, with some read-only profiles for people from development team.

Fast deployments.
Can be integrated with a good variety of other products.
Also provides some insights from your environment.

Integration with external authentication mechanism is not that simple.
Its configuration is made by a external tool (halyard). Would be better if we could configure it by using its own frontend.
Its user interface is some times a bit confusing.

Continuous Deployment in Kubernetes Environments.
Access control for non technical users.
Integration with already used by our organization.

By using Spinnaker we are able to deploy new versions of our product quickly.
A deployment takes in average 2 minutes.
Our investment on Spinnaker was just time learning it.

Open Source Puppet, Kubernetes, Lens Kubernetes IDE

We use Spinnaker for continuous delivery in AWS and AWS AMI re-staking!

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.

It does NOT support CFN based deployments
Windows based systems finds it difficult to onboard to Spinnaker.
Pipeline level access authorisation is not there.
Support for EBS volume encryption is probably missing.
Attach/detach EBS volumes during deployments is difficult.
No support to deploy the artifacts without re-creating the servers. Only pure immutable deployment are allowed.
Open-source - so good and bad!
Spinnaker on its own has 10 underlying micro services. Managing Spinnaker needs a focussed platform approach.
User authentication is easy but authorisation management is not straight forward.

It's open source!
RPM based deployments can be scripted at Maven file itself , so very easy!
RPM based deployments bundles all code and configs together, so awesome!

Leveraging Spinnaker to enable Fast, Frequent, Fearless deployments, delightful service operation, and increased AWS migrations. We are adopting Spinnaker because we believe in the patterns and practices it promotes around CICD and agile, iterative delivery. We believe as the team building this solution for the company we must be early adopters of these practices, we must evangelize those patterns and practices, and we must use them deliver value for customers as quickly as possible.

The immutable way of deployment is one of its greatest advantages.
We have a strict policy to restock our instances with new images very frequently and this can be done very seamlessly via Spinnaker
Rollback/ resize of clusters is one of the coolest features of Spinnaker.

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

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.

Spinnaker

Overview

What is Spinnaker?