Spinnaker Continuous Delivery Platform

Spinnaker Continuous Delivery Platform

"Spinnaker Continuous Delivery Platform" Unlock the full power of continuous software delivery with “Spinnaker Continuous Delivery Platform,” a comprehensive guide to mastering Spinnaker as the backbone of modern DevOps workflows. Structured to serve both newcomers and seasoned professionals, this book begins by grounding readers in the foundational concepts of continuous delivery, deployment automation, and the architectural principles that underpin Spinnaker’s evolution within the CI/CD landscape. Readers are expertly guided through its core components, microservices architecture, and essential terminology, providing a strong basis for understanding subsequent advanced topics and real-world application. Delving deep into Spinnaker's architecture, the book explores each microservice—including Orca, Clouddriver, Front50, and others—revealing the intricate orchestration and communication patterns that enable resilient, scalable, and secure deployments across diverse cloud environments. Practical chapters walk through installing, configuring, and operating Spinnaker in a variety of deployment models, managing upgrades and disaster recovery, and integrating external tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, artifact repositories, and secret management systems. The coverage extends to sophisticated multi-cloud delivery strategies, advanced deployment patterns such as blue/green and canary, and the implementation of robust pipeline logic through parameterization and policy enforcement. Security, governance, and operational excellence form key pillars in this text, with focused sections on authentication, compliance, auditing, and multi-tenancy, ensuring that reader organizations can meet enterprise-grade requirements. The book closes by looking ahead to emerging trends—progressive delivery, policy-as-code, machine learning integrations, and deployments to edge and IoT—and by presenting detailed case studies from complex operational environments. “Spinnaker Continuous Delivery Platform” stands as an indispensable resource for teams seeking not only to adopt Spinnaker, but also to advance the state of their software delivery and digital transformation initiatives.

Kubernetes: Continuous Delivery with Spinnaker

Kubernetes for Full-Stack Developers

This book is designed to help newcomers and experienced users alike learn about Kubernetes. Its chapters are designed to introduce core Kubernetes concepts and to build on them to a level where running an application on a production cluster is a familiar, repeatable, and automated process. From there, more advanced topics are introduced, like how to manage a Kubernetes cluster itself.