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Spinnaker

About Spinnaker

Spinnaker provides application management and deployment to help release software changes. Spinnaker is an open-source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform. It was created at Netflix. It combines a pipeline management system with integrations to major cloud providers. It is intended for standardizing release processes and improving quality.

Products

VM Bakery: Bakes immutable VM images via Packer with support for Chef and Puppet templates.

Used for

Creating deployment pipelines that run integration and system tests
Triggering pipelines via git events, Jenkins, Travis CI, Docker, CRON, or other Spinnaker pipelines
Deploying across multiple cloud providers
Testing that an application can survive instance failures by terminating them on purpose
Restricting the execution of stages to certain windows of time

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How to evaluate GitOps & Release Management

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25%

Reconciliation & Drift Handling

Pull-based sync correctness, drift detection and auto-heal, sync waves/hooks and ordering, health assessment of custom resources, dry-run/diff before apply, and graceful behavior on partial-sync failure and stuck resources

20%

Multi-Cluster & Fleet Scale

Cluster count the architecture sustains, ApplicationSets / bundles / agent fan-out, central control plane vs. autonomous in-cluster reconciliation, multi-tenancy and project isolation, and config templating across environments

20%

Progressive Delivery

Canary and blue-green strategies (Argo Rollouts, Flagger), automated analysis against metrics (Prometheus, Datadog), automatic rollback on SLO breach, multi-stage environment promotion (e.g. Kargo), and traffic shaping via the service mesh or ingress

15%

Secrets & Supply-Chain Security

Keeping plaintext out of Git (Sealed Secrets, External Secrets Operator, SOPS, CSI driver), RBAC and SSO on the control plane, signed-commit/manifest verification, image and provenance policy, and immutable audit of every sync

12%

Governance & Policy-as-Code

OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno admission gates, change approval and PR-based workflows, drift and compliance reporting, blast-radius controls (sync windows, freeze), and separation of duties across app and platform teams

Operability & Support Model

Self-host vs. managed/SaaS, upgrade and HA burden of the control plane, UI and observability quality, day-2 troubleshooting, and whether a vendor SLA and roadmap back the open-source core you depend on

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