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Spinnaker is an open-source continuous delivery platform used to orchestrate application deployments across Kubernetes and major cloud providers. It is commonly adopted by platform and DevOps teams that need consistent, auditable release processes for many services, helping reduce manual coordination and deployment risk through standardized pipelines and controlled promotion between environments.
In a typical workflow, Spinnaker pulls build artifacts from CI systems, targets clusters or cloud resources, and executes progressive delivery steps such as automated verification and gated approvals. For related platform delivery practices and enablement, see Platform Engineering.
Continuous Deployment is a software development practice where code changes are automatically tested and deployed to production environments. This means that as soon as a developer commits changes to the codebase, they are immediately and automatically deployed, ensuring that new features and updates are released to end-users without delay. This practice is part of the broader DevOps approach, aiming to streamline and accelerate the software delivery process. Continuous Deployment requires a robust automated testing framework to ensure that each change is reliable and ready for production.
Spinnaker is an open-source continuous delivery platform used to orchestrate application deployments across Kubernetes and major cloud providers. It is typically adopted to standardize release workflows, enable progressive delivery, and enforce deployment governance at scale.
Spinnaker is a strong fit for organizations running many services that need progressive delivery and consistent release governance across environments. It typically requires dedicated operational ownership for configuration management, upgrades, and reliability, so simpler CD options may be preferable when deployment requirements are straightforward.
Common alternatives include Argo CD, Flux, Jenkins, and GitLab CI/CD.
Our experience with Spinnaker helped us turn inconsistent release practices into repeatable continuous delivery workflows with clear controls, measurable verification, and operational runbooks that teams could use to run deployment pipelines at scale across multiple environments.
Some of the things we did include:
This experience helped us accumulate significant knowledge across multiple Spinnaker use-cases—from platform standardization to progressive delivery—and enables us to deliver high-quality Spinnaker setups that are reliable, observable, and maintainable for client teams.
Some of the things we can help you do with Spinnaker include: