Blue-Green Deployments with Spinnaker: Difference between revisions
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Revision as of 18:18, 9 March 2022
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Overview
This article documents a pipeline that deploys a release in a Stage environment, waits for testing, removes the release from Stage, and deploys the same release in Prod, while preserving the previous release in Prod. The Stage and Prod are serviced by two different namespaces ('of-stage' and 'of-prod'). The application is a Helm-packaged Kubernetes application, but some of the Kubernetes resources, such as the Ingress and the Service, are created manually directly in Spinnaker, one for each namespace. Also, ReplicaSets are used instead of Deployments, because Spinnaker does not handle Deployments well.
Create the Ingresses and Services
For each namespace ('of-stage' and 'of-prod'), create an Ingress and a Service each:
of-stage
Load Balancers → Create Load Balancer
of-prod
Create the Pipeline
It will be a "deploy to stage → manual testing → manual judgement → deploy to prod" pipeline.
Name: "Stage - Manual Testing - Prod" (no "→" allowed in name)
Add stage → Bake (Manifest). Stage name: "Render Helm Chart". This stage will render the helm chart, apply the configuration overlay and overwrite the image tag. For more details, see:
Add stage → Deploy (Manifest). Stage name: "Deploy in Stage". This stage will deploy the Helm chart and associate the workload with the "stage" service. For more details, see:
At this stage, we do enable Rollout Strategy Options, so we can associate the workload with the "stage" service.
Enable: "Spinnaker manages traffic based on your selected strategy" → Service(s) Namespace → Service(s): "stage" → Traffic: Send client requests to new pods → Strategy: "None". ⚠️ "None" is mandatory here, other strategy might delete production.
- Link to detailed explanations of what happens for each of the rollout strategies from the point of view of 1) services 2) replicasets 3) pods.
- Understand the relationship between the replicasets and the Spinnaker cluster
Add stage → Manual Judgement. Stage name: "Wait on Stage Testing"
Add stage → Deploy (Manifest). Stage name: "Deploy in Prod". This stage will deploy the same Helm chart that was tested in Stage and associate the workload with the "prod" service. For more details, see:
At this stage, we do enable Rollout Strategy Options:
Enable: "Spinnaker manages traffic based on your selected strategy"
Organizatorium
TO PROCESS:
- https://blog.spinnaker.io/introducing-rollout-strategies-in-the-kubernetes-v2-provider-8bbffea109a
- https://spinnaker.io/docs/guides/user/kubernetes-v2/rollout-strategies/#redblack-rollouts
- https://spinnaker.io/docs/guides/user/kubernetes-v2/traffic-management/
- https://www.opsmx.com/blog/spinnaker-pipeline-blue-green-strategy-with-external-versioning-and-kubernetes-deployment-object/
- https://www.opsmx.com/blog/spinnaker-integration-with-istio/