Spinnaker – Set Up Spinnaker

Docs: Install and Configure Spinnaker

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Requirements to install spinnaker

A kubernetes cluster

This can be any of the supported vendor solutions (AKS/EKS/GKE/etc.) or an on-premise kubernetes cluster. Make sure it has at least 18GB of memory and 6 cores. Spinnaker uses memory depending upon configuration and the number of “accounts” registered with spinnaker
kubectl with kustomize integrated
Kubernetes native configuration management Kustomize

The process

Installing a complete Spinnaker involves these steps:

Install spinnaker

Configure spinnaker

It is HIGHLY recommended to at LEAST setup authentication for spinnaker!

Halyard deprecation notice

Important

Halyard hal is deprecated.

Halyard was previously mentioned on this page, and is deprecated in favor of native installation using kustomize native configurations.

References to halyard are being steadily removed from the project. An example script is available to export a halyard or operator deployed spinnaker into kustomize style deployment.

And then what?

Docs: Configure Everything Else

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You’ve installed and configured Spinnaker , but there are still a few other things to set up:

Configure your image bakery
Enable security (auth/auth) for your Spinnaker installation
Set up continuous integration
Enable monitoring
And there are a couple of extra features that you can enable

Docs: Productionize Spinnaker

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Spinnaker is a large system, made of several microservices, each intended to be scaled, restarted, and configured independently. This provides operators a great degree of flexibility, and allows Spinnaker to handle massive scale (100K+ deployments/day, 10K+ managed accounts). However, there is no one-size-fits-all approach for configuring Spinnaker; your organization’s usage patterns will need to inform how to prepare your Spinnaker deployment to be used in production.

These pages are intended to provide both an intuition for how Spinnaker works, as well as concrete tips and advice to make Spinnaker more reliable at scale.

Getting started

Before we can confidently productionize an installation of Spinnaker, we need insight into what’s going on. This insight is provided by Spinnaker’s logs and metrics.

Logs

In the Distributed deployments to Kubernetes, logs are forwarded to whatever logging solution you have configured.

In the LocalDebian deployments, logs are written to /var/log/spinnaker.
Metrics

Follow the monitoring setup instructions to export Spinnaker’s metrics into a metric store of your choice.