Spinnaker is an open source tool for deploying software releases to multiple cloud providers. Winnaker is a tool built by Target that helps automate common tasks when using Spinnaker like starting pipelines, getting stage details, integrating with chat tools, and troubleshooting errors. It removes company-specific code so others can contribute. Winnaker is distributed as a Docker container and makes it easy to pressure test Spinnaker and cloud environments by running multiple pipelines.

1. Winning Spinnaker with
Winnaker.
Medya Ghazizadeh
@medyadaily
Sr.Cloud Engineer @ Target

2. The Quest
for the Best C.D TOol
The List ...

3. What is Spinnaker ?
Spin·na·ker
ˈspinəkər/
noun
a large three-cornered sail,
typically bulging when full, set
forward of the mainsail of a
yacht when running before the
wind.

4. An
abstraction
for all The
clouds
LoadBalancer
Server Groups
Security Groups
Service
Service
ports
ReplicaSetApplication
Namespace
Cluster ReplicaSets
versions

5. No runtime config.
Sorry. Not sorry !

6. Because Immutable
A Netflix’s Philosophy.
Bake the image Once, deploy it everywhere.
The end of a cliche
“Worked fine in dev, not in Prod.”

7. A pipleline

8. Find baked image in another pipeline

9. Open source
Developing one product
across multiple companies.
Apache V2

10. Target’s
Contributions
- Openstack driver
- Acomplishments
- Challenges and lessons

11. Chicken and Egg
How to deploy spinnaker ?

12. Winnaker

13. Components
And
Micro services

14. Things that can go wrong
- Connectivity between spinnaker components.
- Connectivity between where it bakes and where it deploys.
- Ip spaces.
- Parallel jobs.
- Cloud provider quota.

15. Features of Winnaker
● Start a pipeline on Spinnaker
○ Login.
○ Execute a pipeline.
○ Get last build status.
○ bake.
○ Deploy
● Get stage details
○ return status codes for pipelines (0 or error)
● Screenshot the stages
● Integrates with HipChat (notify someone that spinnaker is not functional)

16. Automate Troubleshooting
● Every error in Spinnaker means something new that we document, but who reads the
documentation? Winnaker has a list of known error messages and it comes up with
suggestions that you may want to use based on the error message.

17. Winnaker Scereenshot

18. Pressure Test your
cloud/SpinnaKer
Make winnaker run X pipelines and let you know if
they succeed.

19. Open source is win win !
● Removed company specific-info.
● Provide a contribution guide.
● MIT License.
● More contribution to winnaker after I moved on!
● Issues and bugs were fixed by community.

20. Run in Docker !
● HOW DO YOU INSTALL WINNAKER ?
1. Everything ships in a docker container.
2. Or install with pip
● WHAT DO YOU NEED ?
1. A Spinnaker URL
2. A sample app
3. A sample pipeline to run

21. Links
● https://github.com/target/winnaker
● http://target.github.io/infrastructure/Win_the_cloud_with_Winnaker

22. Demo Maybe?

23. annoucement

24. github.com/k8guard
K8Guard is an auditing system for kuberentes.
http://target.github.io