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Open-source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform originally created at Netflix.

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About Spinnaker

Spinnaker is an open-source continuous delivery platform designed for releasing software across many clouds. It models applications, clusters, server groups and load balancers across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry and others, and pipelines orchestrate deployments with built-in strategies like red/black, rolling and canary releases, plus manual judgement stages and automated canary analysis. It came out of Netflix and was developed with Google, and remains in use at large organisations with complex multi-cloud estates. The flip side is weight: Spinnaker is made of many microservices, needs real effort to install, upgrade and operate, and is overkill for teams deploying a handful of services to one Kubernetes cluster, where GitOps tools are now the more common choice. It is free under the Apache 2.0 licence and governed by the Continuous Delivery Foundation, with commercial distributions available. It runs on Kubernetes.

Best for: Large organisations deploying across several clouds that need advanced release strategies.

Pros and cons

What works

  • Deployment strategies like canary and red/black built in
  • Works across many cloud providers
  • Proven at very large scale

Why people leave

  • Many services to install and maintain
  • Steep learning curve
  • Overkill for simple Kubernetes setups

Top Spinnaker alternatives

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  1. 1Argo CD logo
    Argo CD

    Much simpler GitOps delivery if you are mostly on Kubernetes.

    66.5
  2. 2Harness logo
    Harness

    Commercial CD with similar strategies and less to operate.

    62.6
  3. 3Octopus Deploy logo
    Octopus Deploy

    Release orchestration across VMs, Kubernetes and clouds.

    59.6
  4. 4Flux logo
    Flux

    Lightweight GitOps controllers for Kubernetes.

    57.2
  5. 5AWS CodePipeline logo
    AWS CodePipeline

    Managed pipelines if your workloads live on AWS.

    55.3

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Spinnaker: common questions

Is Spinnaker free?

Yes. Spinnaker is free, open-source software that you can host yourself.

Is Spinnaker open source?

Yes. The source code is on GitHub at spinnaker/spinnaker. You can also run it on your own server.

What platforms does Spinnaker run on?

Spinnaker is available for Self-hosted and Web.

What are the best alternatives to Spinnaker?

The highest-ranked Spinnaker alternatives right now are Argo CD, Harness and Octopus Deploy. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.

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