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How do I install Spinnaker on Kubernetes?

How to deploy Spinnaker on Kubernetes: a quick and dirty guide

1. Create a Kubernetes cluster.
2. Create the Kubernetes objects Spinnaker will need to run properly.
3. Create a single pod that will be used to coordinate the deployment of Spinnaker itself.
4. Configure the Spinnaker deployment.
5. Deploy Spinnaker.

How do you deploy with Spinnaker?

1. Step 1: Build a sample application.
2. Step 2: Install Spinnaker using Helm.
3. Step 2.1: Set up LDAP/AD authentication.
4. Step 3: Expose Spinnaker – set up ingress controller.
5. Step 4: Add a GitHub account to Spinnaker.
6. Step 5: Configure the Amazon ECR repository for Jenkins image push.

How do I connect my Spinnaker?

Connect to the Spinnaker UI

1. Run the following command: hal deploy connect. If necessary, set up an SSH tunnel to the host running Halyard. This command automatically forwards ports 9000 (Deck UI) and 8084 (Gate API service).
2. Navigate to localhost:9000 .

How do I install Spinnaker with helm?

Steps to deploy Spinnaker on Kubernetes

1. oc adm policy add-scc-to-user anyuid -z mychart-spinnaker-halyard.
2. wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/charts/master/stable/spinnaker/values.yaml.
3. helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/ helm install spinnaker stable/spinnaker [-f values.yaml]

What is the difference between Jenkins and Spinnaker?

Jenkins lacks capabilities as a complete deployment tool, especially for the cloud. Spinnaker has a richer deployment model with a master dashboard and native support for major cloud providers. Spinnaker still relies on a build server and must integrate with tools like Jenkins.

What is Spinnaker?

Spinnaker is an open-source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform that helps you release software changes with high velocity and confidence. When the application code is modified, the changes trigger the continuous delivery pipeline to automatically rebuild, retest, and redeploy the new version.

What is Spinnaker application?

A Spinnaker application represents a service that you are going to deploy (typically a microservice). An application in Spinnaker is a construct that represents some service that you are going to deploy (typically a microservice). It includes: the pipelines that process the service through to deployment in production.

What is Spinnaker account?

In Spinnaker, providers are integrations to the Cloud platforms you deploy your applications to. In this section, you’ll register credentials for your Cloud platforms. Those credentials are known as Accounts in Spinnaker, and Spinnaker deploys your applications via those accounts.

What is Helm and Spinnaker?

Use Spinnaker to create Helm charts for your applications. Spinnaker surfaces a “Bake (Manifest)” stage to turn templates into manifests with the help of a templating engine. Helm relies on the helm template command. All Helm charts are fetched/stored as artifacts in Spinnaker.

Is Spinnaker CI or CD?

Spinnaker is a free, open-source, and scalable CD solution for multi-cloud deployments. Currently, it is a CD Foundation Project and heavily contributed by Google, Netflix, Microsoft, AWS, OpsMx, etc.

How is Spinnaker used?

Spinnaker is used in production by thousands of organizations around the world to automate their software delivery process, and used by developers, testers, SREs to deploy hundreds of changes a day. Spinnaker is supported by a large community including AWS, Google, Azure, Oracle, SAP, Cisco, Netflix, etc.