Cloud Native CDSpinnaker and the Culture

Behind the Tech

Dianne Marsh@dmarsh

Director of Engineering

The Culture Impacts the Tech

Freedom & Responsibility

At Netflix, weEncourage independent decision making by employees

Share information openly, broadly, and deliberately

Avoid rules

https://jobs.netflix.com/culture

Spinnaker as a case study

Asgard (2012)

Edge Center (2013 - internal)

Courage and Selflessness

Continuous Delivery + Infrastructure Management

Pluggable architecture

Multi-cloud

Spinnaker (2014 - internal)

Spinnaker (2015 - released)

Today

Spinnaker in 2015

Today

Continuous Delivery

Set Persisted Properties

Manage Instance Health

Pluggable (Netflix)Chaos Automation Platform (CHaP)

Automated Canary Analysis (ACA)

Squeeze Testing

Guardrails not gates

Engineers decide when to deploy

… with context from execution windows

Engineers manage services

… with context from traffic guards

Engineers decide deployment strategy

… tools support manual judgement

Smart Defaults Based on Criticality

Future ...Extend back to Continuous Integration

Declarative Continuous Delivery

Abstract some Deployment Details

The Tech Impacts the Culture

Increasing Interest in Delegation

2013:

“Let us configure all the things”

2017:

“Give us smart defaults”

Best Practices Across Providers

Some Community ContributionsKubernetes cloud provider

Role-based access control (Fiat)

Webhook

JIRA

Load Testing

Continuous Integration

We’re deploying more often(about 8K orchestrations per day)

Hackathons to contribute into SpinnakerInternal and external

How to write a plugin

And we’re only getting started

Some parting thoughts ....

Choose tools wisely… don’t fight culture

Consider how you can be courageous

Consider how you can be selfless

Thank You!Dianne Marsh

@dmarsh