Spinnaker Blog

We just did a great panel with Alan Shimmel of DevOps.com, along with: Sarah Novotny, Open Source in Microsoft’s Azure Office of the CTO Kelsey Hightower, Staff Developer Advocate at Google Andy Glover, Director of Productivity Engineering at Netflix Isaac Mosquera, CTO at Armory and DROdio, CEO at Armory Kelsey described Spinnaker as a “Standard […]

We just did a great “State of Spinnaker” panel with Alan Shimmel of DevOps.com, along with: Kelsey Hightower, staff developer advocate at Google Andy Glover, Director of Productivity Engineering at Netflix Isaac Mosquera, CTO at Armory and DROdio, CEO at Armory In the video we discuss: How Spinnaker has expanded beyond the Netflix use case […]

Spinnaker saw explosive growth across the enterprise in 2019. Forward-thinking enterprises that are farther along their DevOps journey are using Spinnaker as a software delivery orchestration platform – not just as a “CD tool.” Here’s a peek into how Spinnaker will evolve as a Software Delivery Orchestration Platform in 2020: We recently shared how Netflix […]

Armory’s top goal for 2019 was to help Global 2,000 enterprises discover Spinnaker. We have achieved that objective beyond our wildest expectations. At the beginning of 2019, there were only a dozen companies publicly sharing their success with Spinnaker — and that included Google and Netflix, who originally open-sourced the project. Spinnaker was a lurking […]

Paul Roberts, Principal Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts at AWS, shared at re:Invent how deeply AWS is backing Spinnaker, due to strong enterprise customer demand. “AWS realized that customers wanted a single platform to deploy applications to multiple AWS targets.”  – Paul Roberts, AWS AWS started contributing to Spinnaker 18 months ago, and yesterday Paul announced […]

In 1900 there were only 4,192 passenger cars built, and they had to traverse mud and dirt roads. Last year, there were 70,000,000 built (a 16,000x increase), and there are over 250,000,000 cars driving on today’s roads. As PBS reports in the Ken Burns Special, Horatio’s Drive: “In the spring of 1903, on a whim […]

A common question that we encounter here at Armory: how do I enable tools like Jenkins or Artifactory to call Spinnaker and trigger a pipeline.  How do I setup the authentication/authorization to allow this to happen?  The answer is pretty straightforward, though the terminology used is not what most operations staff would utilize.  Today we’ll […]

“Business as usual is no longer enough to remain competitive.” – From page 3 in “Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations” I recently sat down with Andy Glover, the Director of Delivery Engineering at Netflix, at a recent Insight IGNITE event to talk to him about […]

JPMorgan Chase recently joined the CD Foundation. AJ Lang, the Chief Technical Officer of JPMC shared: “Increasing the velocity of our software delivery lifecycle is what enables development teams to iterate faster and, in turn, increase our output of innovative products and services for our customers and clients.” He went on to specifically describe the […]

This infographic is based on trends and learnings across hundreds of enterprises we’ve engaged with, spanning Fortune 100 companies evaluating a move to public or private clouds, to high-growth, software-first startups that were born in the cloud. The blue bar at the bottom summarizes the costs & benefits a company can expect to incur across […]