Fresh new Spinnaker content @ CDCon

Rosalind Benoit
The Spinnaker Community Blog
5 min readSep 18, 2020

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How much do you know about the CDF (Continuous Delivery Foundation)? Its mission: to help you channel Continuous Delivery’s power to empower developers. The ability to produce high quality software rapidly isn’t a trade secret — CDCon is the perfect place to dive in and bring some magic back to your team or organization. See below for a preview of all the Spinnaker talks on the schedule.

The CI/CD space is ripe for collaboration. Join me at CDCon to be part of the 4th industrial revolution.

Spinnaker, the open-source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence, was created at Netflix. It has been battle-tested in production by hundreds of teams over millions of deployments. It combines a powerful and flexible pipeline management system with integrations to the major cloud providers and SDLC tools. Learn more about it at CDCon on October 7–8.

Spinnaker talks to put on your calendar

Wednesday, October 7

Automated Verification of Deployments for Risk Assessment

Speakers: Gopinath Rebala, OpsMx

Time: 11:05 AM PDT

Safe and reliable deployments are critical for continuous delivery of application services. Time taken to detect an issue has a direct impact on the bottom line. Web-scale companies like Netflix practiced deployment strategies like canary deployments and blue/green deployments and use statistical techniques to determine problems before they cause an outage and improve the MTTR in case of an outage. In this talk, we will present an automated verification model combined with canary and blue/green deployments in Spinnaker pipelines. We will present the usefulness of the models in verification of performance and functionality of deployments using metrics and logs generated in distributed microservice environment for identifying problems in deployments.

How Spinnaker is Shaping Delivery Excellence at SAP

Speakers: Serge Poueme & Mohamed Bakr, SAP

Time: 11:40 AM PDT

Serge Poueme, a Site Reliability Engineer, along with his colleague, Jessie Metivier, a User Assistance Developer, share how they’re leveraging Spinnaker at SAP. Join them as they uncover why they chose Spinnaker as their CI/CD hero, the architecture they’ve designed, and of course, how it’s allowed their company to push projects quickly to the cloud! In their talk, they will also showcase how they integrate Spinnaker with their current DevOps tools and build starter kits for internal teams — zeroing in on a team that now confidently ships code with Spinnaker!

Spinnaker Deployments on Kubernetes from a Security Perspective

Speakers: Anirban Saha, Allianz Technology

Time: 2:55 PM PDT

Spinnaker has provided ease of deployment for a number of cloud-native environments and has become the absolute tool of choice for infrastructure implementers. However, it is equally important to consider security challenges when working in a cloud ecosystem. There are several security concerns to address when deploying cloud-native applications using Spinnaker such as the Spinnaker deployment itself, permissions provided for the target cloud accounts, access control for Spinnaker applications, credential handling, authentication mechanisms, using roles for deployment (RBAC) to name a few. Making sure to address these security challenges not only helps an organisation minimize risk factors but also enables engineers to deploy continuously in a safe manner.

Spinnaker at Salesforce: Enterprise-Level Multi-Substrate Continuous Delivery and Release Management

Speakers: Jing Vergara, Salesforce

Time: 3:30 PM PDT

Learn how we manage releases at Salesforce and take Continuous Deployment to the next level. Listen to the complex release orchestration challenges we face. Find out more about how we iteratively solve the full automation of movement of all code and infrastructure changes, from local development all the way to multi-substrate production environments and multilevel security zones.

Thursday, October 8

Managed Releases with Spinnaker

Speaker: Nirmalya Sen, OpsMx

Time: 11:25 AM PDT

Spinnaker is a continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. But what if you are not doing continuous delivery? What if you are doing managed releases where the release manager, based on many organizational and business criteria, decides when to release and what to release? Can they use Spinnaker? In this talk, Nirmalya will showcase how you can adopt Spinnaker’s continuous delivery features to be able to make managed releases.

This is an Open Source Project, Why do we Need a Vulnerability Management Process?

Speaker: Beth Fuller, Armory

Time: 11:25 AM PDT

This talk will walk through our motivation for implementing a Vulnerability Management Process for OSS Spinnaker. How is this protection good for the community? We’ll share basic education on how a CVE becomes a document or patched code. We’ll explore why this process and protection helps all upstream OSS users and makes your lives easier.

Introduction to Spinnaker on Kubernetes

Speaker: Marky Jackson, OpsMX

Time: 2:40 PM PDT

Spinnaker is an open-source, multi-cloud deployment tool for releasing software changes reliably. You can deploy and automate your application release across multiple cloud environments including Kubernetes, AWS EC2, Google Computer Engine, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, and many more. In this session, we will focus on the installation of Spinnaker in a Kubernetes cluster using Halyard. Halyard is a command-line administration tool that manages the lifecycle of your Spinnaker deployment, and it’s a recommended way to install, configure, and update Spinnaker.

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