This document discusses automated canary analysis through Spinnaker for continuous delivery. Spinnaker is an open source tool that allows deploying software changes automatically without fear by using techniques like canary analysis. It supports multiple cloud providers and services. The presentation covers Spinnaker concepts like deployment strategies, canary deployments, chaos engineering, and best practices for canary analysis using Spinnaker like applying fine-grained traffic splits and including business metrics. It demonstrates Spinnaker capabilities using a Rick and Morty example and provides contact details for learning more.

1. Cutting-edge Continuous Delivery:
Automated Canary Analysis
through Spinnaker
October 7–10, 2019
Austin Convention Center

2. Cover w/ Image
Who’s this guy?
■ Andreas Evers - Senior Solutions
Architect at Pivotal
■ Part of Application Transformation
(AppTx) EMEA
■ Active in Pivotal’s Spinnaker team
(collaboration between Spring & Cloud
Foundry R&D)
■ @andreasevers on Twitter

3. The ultimate goal of continuous delivery is
to deploy software quickly & automatically.
This can only be achieved if we’re able to
push new code without fear.

4. Speed Confidence

5. App Engine
Compute Engine

7. Orca
Front50
Spring Boot at the core
Gate
Clouddriver
Rosco
Fiat
Deck
Echo
Igor
Halyard
Kayenta

10. Spinnaker
Ecosystem
Cloud Providers
App Engine
Amazon Web Services
Azure
Cloud Foundry
DC/OS
Google Compute Engine
Kubernetes
Openstack
Oracle
CI Systems
Jenkins
Travis CI
Wercker
Concourse
Artifact Support
Docker
GitHub
HTTP
S3
Artifactory
Google Cloud Storage
Nexus (coming soon)
Monitoring
Datadog
Prometheus
Stackdriver
Atlas
SignalFx
(10+ more on
roadmap)
Notifications
Email
HipChat
Slack
SMS via Twilio

11. Cloud Pipelines
Manual Deployments? Different live versions
across regions & clouds?
Rollbacks?
Spring Cloud Pipelines

12. =
Application Centric Control Plane

14. Change
Change
Change
Change
SVC 1
SVC 2
SVC 3
Cloud Deployments are Complex

15. Multi Cloud / Foundation / Account / Region View

17. Easy Rollbacks are Important

18. Rollbacks

19. Deploy during the Right Timeframes

20. Deployment Windows

21. Deployment Windows

22. Deployment Strategies

23. Automation

24. Canary Birds

25. Canary Birds

26. Canary Analysis

27. Canary Analysis

28. Chaos Monkeys

29. Go Fast - With Safety
■ Automated rollbacks
■ Deployment windows
■ Chaos monkeys
■ Deployment strategies
■ Automated canary analysis
■ Cluster locking
■ Traffic guards
■ Manual judgements
■ Conditional pipeline & stage execution
■ Notifications

30. Halyard
■ Configuration & deployment lifecycle management tool
■ Install, upgrade, configure, validate your Spinnaker installation
■ Works with Bill of Materials (BOM)

31. Demo

32. Rick And Morty

33. Rick And Morty
■ Green protagonist
■ Rick turns himself into a pickle to avoid family
therapy
■ Rolls into the sewer and has to fight rats and
cockroaches
■ Comes out victorious
■ Very strong, predictable and stable green
version

34. Rick And Morty
■ Blue antagonist
■ Genie in a box who exists only to solve the task
at hand
■ Will go to great lengths to solve that task
■ Gets aggressive if the task can’t be solved
■ Dangerous, chaotic and unstable blue version

35. Rick And Morty

36. Rick And Morty

37. Rick And Morty

38. Rick And Morty

39. Rick And Morty

40. Rick And Morty

41. Demo
bit.do/springone

42. Demo
bit.do/
spring
one
bit.do/
spring
one

46. Canary best practices
■ Apply fine-grained traffic splits & content-based routing with Istio or other
sophisticated load-balancing technologies
■ Fine-tune the metrics you choose to reflect key service health indicators
■ Include business metrics such as pirate metrics

47. Canary best practices
■ Run canaries long enough to gather enough data points
■ Use the metrics store explorer to figure out what metric expressions to use
■ Align the data points from both canary and baseline deployments using time
series aggregators / reducers carefully
■ Take advantage of SpEL templating to avoid manifest hell

48. Speed Confidence

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Cutting-edge Continuous Delivery:
Automated Canary Analysis through Spinnaker
Attributions:
Doug Thompson (share.america.gov/english-idiom-canary-coal-mine)
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist
1st Class Eric Brown [Public domain]
Rick and Morty by Adult Swim