Spinnaker
Spinnaker is an open-source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform developed by Netflix and open-sourced in 2015. It enables organizations to release software changes with high velocity and confidence by providing robust pipeline management, automated deployments, and advanced deployment…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2015
- Category
- cloud_infrastructure
- Problem solved
- Spinnaker was created to solve the challenge of reliably and efficiently deploying software to multiple cloud providers at scale, particularly for organizations adopting microservices architectures. It aimed to provide advanced deployment strategies (like canary and blue/green) and a consistent, managed experience for continuous delivery that predecessors, often focused on single clouds or simpler deployments, lacked.
- Platforms
- Linux (Kubernetes, Debian/Ubuntu), Cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Target
- Schlumberger
- Microsoft
- Netflix
- Salesforce
- Capital One