cdCon2: -- A quick overview of Spinnaker: the open source CD project

Back of the beginning of the summer I attended cdCon here in Austin.  On the show floor came across some cool companies such as Firefly, which I blog about last week, as well as popular open source projects.  One such project  is Spinnaker, an effort that I was aware of but I didnt know too much about.  When I ambled up to the OpsMx booth I met Balaji Sivasubramania who, besiders being an OpsMx employee, is also Spinnaker contributor.  This is how he explained Spinnaker to me 

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I'm Balaji Sivasubramania and I'm part of the OpsMx Spinnaker, contributor team, and I want to give you a one-minute explanation about what Spinnaker is.

Spinnaker is an open source project focused on making continuous delivery to multi-cloud deployment easier and faster and safer. It was originally contributed by Netflix and they use it internally.  They contributed it, but now it's supported by a large number of people including Google and end users like Apple and Salesforce etc. This platform has been used widely in large organizations. We have end users using 10,000 pipelines and deploying many, many thousands of times a day. And that's why Spinnaker has been battle tested and deployed across multiple organizations.

What it essentially does is it allows you to quickly deploy to various public clouds and various targets. We don't have to write scripts, which is one of the biggest problem with the existing technologies. It is also fully pipeline scored, so you can define everything in code and be able to maintain that.

The pipeline itself is scored. It has extensions. It is fully extendable, and the extensions are part of a vendor like us or customers, they do it themselves. So you can extend it to support data files, you can extend it to support Jira, ServiceNow and other projects out there. And overall, what's Spinnaker’s able to deploy, containers, VMs, and functions to multi-cloud quickly and safely through different technologies like Canary and Blue-green deployments.

Check it out at www.spinnaker.io Thank you.