DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 San Francisco

Summary
In this class you will learn the basics of how to use Spinnaker to deliver your software to production. You will start by creating a Spinnaker application for your software project and then move into constructing your first delivery pipeline. You will learn how to integrate your CI system, configure your deployment target, health checks, and notifications. The last steps will be create a multi-region pipeline that you will use to promote a demo application through multiple environments and into production.

Prerequisites

• You have a solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• You have a basic understanding of at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes)
• You have a basic understanding of Docker
• You be proficient in at least one scripting or programming language
• You have GitHub account. GitHub accounts are free, sign up here: https://github.com/join

Syllabus

1. Intro, Goals, Assumptions
2. Background & Philosophy & Terminology Architecture
3. Projects and Application in Spinnaker Introduction to Pipelines
4. Configuration Triggers Stages
5. Tasks Applications
6. Deploying
7. Configuring Server Groups (AWS ASG and Kubernetes Deployments) Working with Load Balancers
8. Health Checks - Kubernetes vs GCP vs EC2
9. Deployment Strategies (built-in, custom)
10. Red/Black deployment strategy
11. Canary Baking Images
12. Working with Load Balancers
13. Cluster Configuration
14. Branching Pipelines and Pipelines calling Pipelines
15. Promotional pipelines Conditional pipelines Branching
16. Spring Expression Language (SpEL) Introduction Working with Health Check providers