Published in The Spinnaker Community Blog·PinnedEvolving How Netflix Builds, Maintains, and Operates Their Spinnaker DistributionIt has been nearly five years since we first shared the story of how we were delivering our custom packaged variant of Spinnaker to hundreds of internal users. Much has changed. We now orchestrate more than 20k deployments daily. This number is significantly higher when you consider more discrete changes…Spinnaker8 min read
Published in The Spinnaker Community Blog·Mar 23, 2017Cloud Agnostic Tagging with SpinnakerA fairly common ask of Spinnaker over the last couple of years has boiled down to having an ability to attach arbitrary tags to any cloud resource. Of course these tags must also be searchable: Fetch all tags on a given resource (ie. give me all tags for servergroup-v001) Fetch…AWS5 min read
Published in The Spinnaker Community Blog·Feb 22, 2017Waze and Multi-Cloud Continuous DeliveryThe folks over at Google recently published an official blog post talking about how Waze (acquired by Google in 2013) has been using Spinnaker to deploy simultaneously on both Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). They have been doing it for awhile too! …Cloud Computing4 min read
Published in The Spinnaker Community Blog·Feb 18, 2017An efficient way to terminate and shrink an Autoscaling Group (AWS)The following pattern is suitable for scenarios where you would like to terminate more than one instance in an autoscaling group (ASG) with a matching decrement to desired capacity. While the AWS SDK does support terminating a single instance in an ASG with a capacity adjustment, it offers nothing when…AWS2 min read
Published in The Spinnaker Community Blog·Nov 15, 2016Scaling Spinnaker at Netflix — Custom Features and PackagingPart 3 of a series on how we scale and operate Spinnaker at Netflix. This post offers insight into our approach to delivering custom Netflix-specific features for our hundreds of internal users without the need to open source. …AWS4 min read
Published in The Spinnaker Community Blog·Sep 16, 2016Scaling Spinnaker at Netflix — Metrics and more!Part 2 of a series on how we scale and operate Spinnaker at Netflix. This post outlines our approach to using metrics, dashboards and alerts to operationally support Spinnaker. Netflix-specific Tooling Although Spinnaker is an open-source project, there are a handful of Netflix-specific tools that support our efforts. Atlas : The telemetry…Monitoring4 min read
Published in The Spinnaker Community Blog·Sep 6, 2016Scaling Spinnaker at Netflix — The BasicsThe Backstory Spinnaker is the continuous delivery platform we’ve been building (and operating) over the past 2 years at Netflix. It represents many years of our team’s collective experiences delivering software at scale and has quickly grown from dozens of deployments per day to the 3000+ we regularly see now. In partnership…AWS4 min read
