Caleb, we’re Armory, W17. This does indeed sound like an interesting use case for Spinnaker, as Jacques said. Happy to chat with you about it. [email protected] (we are commercializing Spinnaker — http://www.Armory.io )
@michelvocks -- the Armory team would love to hear more about the challenges you had with Spinnaker. (We're commercializing an enterprise version of OSS Spinnaker).
Also, we've created a 'pipelines as code' feature called Dinghy that may have helped. And our installer & configurator provides a much smoother install & configure experience. Details at www.Armory.io
Hit us up at [email protected] if you have more specific feedback (our exec team reads emails to that addy).
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We've helped a number of companies get Spinnaker working. Happy to chat w/ you, just email [email protected] (and reference this YC post to ensure it gets routed correctly).
Yeah that mindset shift was the hardest part of transitioning from a traditional ops to a no-ops approach at our last company. The technology has no chance if the culture isn't ready.
We especially see this with F500 companies. They insist on multiple manager approvals for deployments. CI/CD is really scary to them because it feels too risky.
One of our prospective customers (at a F500 company) told us about how they have a cross-functional deployment 'swat team' that all gather in a room on a Friday night and literally press a button to deploy the update, then see what happens. They take their website offline in anticipation of errors (and put up the '90s construction worker logo) and then their ops people get paged over the weekend to deal w/ errors. Just ridiculous!
The irony is that the slower deployment velocity creates more risk, making deployments scary affairs. It's a terrible cycle. Deploying 7x per year means each deployment contains many more features/fixes, which introduces more risk. Vs. breaking a monolith up into microservices, and letting each component deploy at whatever cadence is best for it. And with Spinnaker each deployment can be traced back to the original git commit hash / jira ticket / etc., creating much more transparency in the deployment process.
To add on to that: The best way we've found to work with large enterprises (aka Global 2000) is to start w/ just one team & app, show success with that, and then expand from there.
We've found that big companies need to see one team achieving success before they'll adopt it throughout the organization.
We've employed this approach successfully with our first several customers. They're going from from one app --> 5 apps --> "GA" rollout internally.
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Engineers at companies should be empowered to deploy their own code, in the background, continuously, without downtime or errors. We are working on making commercializing Spinnaker, an open source immutable infrastructure CD platform from Netflix that enables blue/green deploys, canaries & rollbacks, so it “just works” for the enterprise by injecting safety, velocity, intelligence, auditing, and compliance.
We've created v0.61 to solve the following problem: Spinnaker is powerful but hard to install and configure; lots of sub-services. We've created a package that 'just works' to make it easier to install. Would love to hear feedback from anyone who gives it a try.