Spinnaker Summit 2022

Speakers

Kelsey Hightower

Distinguished Software Engineer

Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go... Read More →

Maria Ashby

Developer Advocate & Contributor Experience SIG for Spinnaker

Maria creates content around continuous delivery and Spinnaker. Before diving into a developer advocacy role, she worked in computer science education for K-12 students in lower-income communities. Maria is passionate about lowering the barrier to entry into continuous delivery and... Read More →

Monday October 24, 2022 9:00am - 9:10am EDT
Ambassador II

Speaker Type In person

9:10am EDT

Keynote: Faster, Safer, Trusted - The Evolution of Autodesk’s Cloud Deployment Platform - Jesse Sanford & Cole Duclos, Senior Principal Engineers, Autodesk

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Autodesk’s Developer Enablement organization has a goal to increase developer productivity 100X. To do so, Autodesk has invested heavily in building their next-generation cloud deployment platform powered by open-source tools like Spinnaker.

Autodesk began their Spinnaker journey 4 years ago. Over that time, they have built a user-friendly abstraction overlaying Spinnaker and AWS. From imperative pipeline patterns to declarative GitOps models, their offering has matured, allowing hundreds of developers to deliver software easily. By reducing the toil that comes with deploying and managing secure and compliant applications, Autodesk engineering teams can now focus on innovative features, providing immediate value to their customers.

In this talk Cole Duclos and Jesse Sanford will talk about Autodesk’s past, present, and future CD platform, how Spinnaker has been central to that vision and hopefully pass along a few learnings along the way.

Speakers

Cole Duclos

Senior Principal Engineer, Autodesk

Technology enthusiast who strives to provide a delightful developer experience across complex systems. Currently focused on architecting and driving adoption of world-class cloud platforms at Autodesk. New member of Spinnaker’s Technical Oversight Committee.

Jesse Sanford

Software Architect, Autodesk

Jesse is a lifelong software engineer focused on site reliability and Infosec. Currently architecting the juncture of platform engineering and security/compliance for Autodesk's Developer Enablement team. He regularly contributes to open source and frequently speaks about his work... Read More →

Monday October 24, 2022 9:10am - 9:30am EDT
Ambassador II

Presentation Slides Attached Yes
Speaker Type In person

9:35am EDT

Keynote: Ingredients for Spinnaker Success: Creating an Open Source Movement to Accelerate Innovation - Ben Mappen, Co-founder and SVP of Strategic Partnerships, Armory

Successful open source projects have one thing in common, a vibrant community. This talk will explore the ingredients required to build and grow a healthy OSS community and provide a roadmap for how Spinnaker can achieve its next level of growth.

Speakers

Ben Mappen

Cofounder and the SVP of Strategic Partnerships, Armory

Ben Mappen is a cofounder and the SVP of Strategic Partnerships at Armory. Prior to starting Armory, Ben founded three other startups including LeanLaunchLab & Techcofounder, and was among the first 5 employees at several others. Ben grew up in New Jersey and studied Computer Science... Read More →

Ben Mappen Spinnaker Summit 2022 Keynote (8) pdf

Monday October 24, 2022 9:35am - 9:55am EDT
Ambassador II

Presentation Slides Attached Yes
Speaker Type In person

10:00am EDT

Keynote: Spinnaker - The Future of Your Enterprise CD? Three Reasons Why - Gopal Dommety, CEO, OpsMx

Continuous Delivery is a uniquely exciting space to be working in today, sitting at the intersection of so many trends and innovation. While Spinnaker has proved to be the robust CD platform that enterprises need, what will be Spinnaker’s role going forward in a world increasingly dominated by containers, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud deployments?

In this presentation Gopal will share his perspective on the future of Spinnaker based on his work with some of the world’s largest Spinnaker deployments. He will highlight the important efforts now underway to make Spinnaker easier to adopt at scale, improve the developer experience with smart GitOps, and add control to emerging new tools like Argo CD. Together, these initiatives promise to keep Spinnaker at the center of your future CD strategy.

Speakers

Gopal Dommety

CEO, OpsMx

Gopal Dommety is the CEO of OpsMx. Gopal is a serial entrepreneur and technology visionary. As CEO, he has built the team to scale the technology and go-to-market functions and has proven product-market fit with customers like Cisco, Salesforce, Standard Chartered Bank, Juniper Networks... Read More →

Monday October 24, 2022 10:00am - 10:20am EDT
Ambassador II

Speaker Type In person

10:20am EDT

Keynote: Technical Oversight Committee Q&A - Cameron Motevasselani, Armory; Praseeda Sathaye, AWS; Gopinath Rebala, OpsMX; Dadisi Sanyika, Apple & Moderated by Kelsey Hightower, Google

Speakers

Dadisi Sanyika

Engineering Manager, Apple, Inc.

I lead a team of engineers at Apple dedicated to improving the Spinnaker experience for teams the community of users in and outside of Apple. Our contributions are focused on extending Spinnakers' scalability and multi-tenant capabilities. For the last eight years at Apple I have... Read More →

Gopinath Rebala

CTO, OpsMx Inc

Gopinath is passionate about simplification and automation of Software Delivery with little or no human intervention. He brings more than 20 years of Software development and delivery leadership with startups and fortune 100 companies. He has patents in content distribution, application... Read More →

Cameron Motevasselani

Senior Software Engineer, Platform SIG Co-lead, Armory

Software Engineer at Armory working on Armory's data pipeline, as well as Spinnaker extensibility and release process. Has spoken at a previous Spinnaker Summit on the plugin framework, as well as DevOps Days.

Praseeda Sathaye

Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, App Modernization, AWS

Praseeda Sathaye is a Principal Application Modernization Specialist SA at Amazon Web Services based in Bay Area California. She has been focussed on helping customers speed their cloud-native adoption journey by modernizing their platform infrastructure, internal architecture using... Read More →

Kelsey Hightower

Distinguished Software Engineer

Monday October 24, 2022 10:20am - 10:50am EDT
Ambassador II

Speaker Type In person

11:35am EDT

Developer Enablement through a GitOps Driven IaC Control Plane at Autodesk - Jesse Sanford, Autodesk & Manabu McCloskey, AWS

Spinnaker Summit 22 Developer Enablement through a GitOps Driven IaC Control Plane at Autodesk pdf

At this point GitOps is a well understood concept amongst DevOps practitioners. Talks and posts promising magnifications of developer enablement through GitOps abound. However, they rarely focus on the intersection of dev enablement and security/compliance. In this talk Jesse Sanford and Manabu McCloskey will walk through a recent PoC done at Autodesk that flexes GitOps for the delivery of compliant infrastructure as code using Managed Delivery and Crossplane. The PoC focused on using Crossplane to split the responsibilities over the ownership of the IaC and separating the concerns to the appropriate stakeholders in the organization. Security team members can develop security controls alongside platform and product engineers who develop capabilities and functionality on top of them. Additionally, using Spinnaker Keel, all parties can work through a unified git driven workflow where PRs serve as our change requests and merges trigger the updates to secure infrastructure across the organization. Finally, novel approaches for wiring up Keel with Crossplane through the use of the K8s plugin, and sharing of secrets between Clouddriver and Flux through a custom sidecar will be discussed.

Speakers

Jesse Sanford

Software Architect, Autodesk

Manabu McCloskey

Solutions Architect, AWS

Manabu is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. He focuses on contributing to open source infrastructure toolings and works with AWS strategic customers to design and implement enterprise solutions using AWS resources and open source technologies. His interests include Kubernetes... Read More →

Monday October 24, 2022 11:35am - 12:05pm EDT
Ambassador II

Speaker Type In person

11:35am EDT

RBAC In Spinnaker - Groups, Application vs. Account Permissions and How to Use Them. - Jason McIntosh, Armory, Inc.

Plan to do a walk through with: * enabling group integration using as an EXAMPLE an Okta dev Account & configuring spinnaker using SAML * setting access controls on accounts including how accounts interface with clouds (k8s as an example) * setting access controls on application * Limitations on these configurations * Setting up application restrictions * Using Manual Judgements to elevate permissions * Discuss X509 on top of the above & show the configuration * Go through Fiat, how it operates, show the permissions cache, sync operation impact, and integrates with the above

Speakers

Jason McIntosh

Principal Engineer, Armory, Inc.

Jason McIntosh is Spinnaker SIG Security member, an Open Source advocate, DevOps engineer with 20+ years of experience in the industry including over 10 years in Java development. Currently working at Armory, Inc as a principal engineer on the managed offering, he spends most of his... Read More →

RBAC in Spinnaker pptx

Monday October 24, 2022 11:35am - 12:05pm EDT
Ambassador III

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Speaker Type In person

12:15pm EDT

Renaissance, Act 1: Building the Next Generation of the Spinnaker Community - Maria Ashby, Armory

The Spinnaker Project has a bright future in terms of the quality of engineering and the new features being proposed. However, its growth has stagnated in the last year and we require new users to achieve all of our project goals. In this talk, I will propose a community engagement strategic plan that involves revamping the Spinnaker training process, new content ideas, and community support for new Spinnaker users. I will also reintroduce the Contributor-Experience SIG and talk about its roadmap for the next year. Finally, I will end with a call- to action for members to get involved in more community events like future Gardening Days and in-person meet-ups.

Speakers

Maria Ashby

Developer Advocate & Contributor Experience SIG for Spinnaker

Renaissance slides pdf

Monday October 24, 2022 12:15pm - 12:45pm EDT
Ambassador II

Presentation Slides Attached Yes
Speaker Type In person

12:15pm EDT

Do's and Don'ts for Securing and Governing your Spinnaker Environment - Kyle Mitchell & David Beale, Armory

Spinnaker is powerful, flexible and complex. There are multiple ways to do everything and this talk will provide real-world advice and recommendations on the best (and worst) ways to secure and govern your environment. The presenters will draw from their experience deploying, managing and supporting Spinnaker across a range of customer environments (mid-size to large enterprise) and across multiple industries from retail to banking to tech. Recommendations and specific code configurations will be presented which you can bring back to your own organization to evaluate if changes are needed or as input in your Spinnaker planning process.

Speakers

David Beale

Sales Engineer, Armory

I'm a Chicago based technologist who recently pivoted into pre sales engineering after 8 years as a Developer/Site Reliability Engineer for such companies as Etsy, Glossier, and American Family Insurance.

Kyle Mitchell

Technical Product Manager, Armory

Kyle is seasoned technical product manager with 17 years of technology experience and 6 years in a product role. Most recently he has been managing Armory's flagship Continuous Delivery product built on Spinnaker. He has a proven track-record of leading cross-functional teams to design... Read More →

Monday October 24, 2022 12:15pm - 12:45pm EDT
Ambassador III

Speaker Type In person

12:55pm EDT

Spinnaker as a Platform: Driving Cloud Adoption in Healthcare - Joel Vasallo, TAG - The Aspen Group

Adopting the cloud is at the forefront of many companies goals in the coming years. To truly recognize the power of the cloud most companies need to undergo a digital transformation; avoiding forklifting monoliths and adopting DevOps practices. While exciting, this also poses many risks, challenges, and key decisions; such as tooling, rearchitecting, and ultimately modernization of applications. We all want to leverage containers and Kubernetes but there should be a paved road to get there. The goal of platform engineering teams should be to build paved roads to drive adoption and empower engineers to build, deploy, and own their applications.

In this talk, we will share some strategies from TAG (The Aspen Group) on how we did this using Spinnaker including:

Basic overview of the technical challenges we encountered when we started our cloud journey
Brief overview of Spinnaker and why we chose it at TAG
How Spinnaker was used to drive adoption of the cloud and ultimately transformation to Kubernetes as the core
Considerations and solutions to meet and address compliance requirements using Spinnaker
Next phase of where the platform is going using Spinnaker as an engine

Speakers

Joel Vasallo

Director, Platform Engineering, TAG - The Aspen Group

Joel is currently the Director of Platform Engineering at TAG - The Aspen Group where he leads various team focused on DevOps, SRE, and Delivery Engineering. Together, these teams aim to build and architect highly available cloud environments, develop infrastructure and development... Read More →

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Monday October 24, 2022 12:55pm - 1:25pm EDT
Ambassador II

Speaker Type In person

12:55pm EDT

Ephemeral Environments Paradigm Powered by Spinnaker - Christos Arvanitis & Edgar Ulises Garcia Gallegos, Armory

How do you run a full test cycle in a short-lived production replica environment in the most reliable, easy and cost effective way possible? How do you give your stakeholders an early view of the new features before your code is merged? And how does this workflow across the SDLC look for us at Armory? In this session we will explore how Spinnaker can unlock the paradigm of ephemeral environments for software and product teams and how we can bring production closer to development before the code is merged. Using Pipelines as Code and from Github actions to Spinnaker, Edgar and Christos will present and demo an end-to-end workflow spawning on-demand Spinnaker environments.

Speakers

Christos Arvanitis

SRE Engineer, Armory, Inc

Christos has spent the majority of the past 10 years around automating anything related to the SDLC, infrastructure, monitoring and alerting. His current focus as an SRE engineer in Armory, Inc is automate, operating and scale enterprise Spinnaker environments. In previous roles in... Read More →

Edgar Ulises Garcia Gallegos

Senior Software Engineer II, Armory, Inc

Edgar has worked as Software Developer for the past 8 years in variety of application use cases such as CI/CD, SMS platforms, provisioning. His current focus as a Senior Software Engineer in Armory Inc, is automate, monitor and test the release process for the Armory Spinnaker Platform... Read More →

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Monday October 24, 2022 12:55pm - 1:25pm EDT
Ambassador III

Presentation Slides Attached Yes
Speaker Type In person

2:25pm EDT

Shore - A Framework For Spinnaker Pipelines - Eyal Mor & Simon Chammah, Autodesk

“Shore” (verb) is a tool used to develop deployment pipelines for different pipeline based products like Spinnaker. Developed in Autodesk, it is currently driving “most” of the Platform Pipelines Development in the company. As part of the summit we will introduce Shore Framework to the world, And unveil the project in the Open Source Space. Presentation will include (still preliminary may change) * Developing Pipelines is a hard task * What is Shore (and why?) * The use of Shore in Autodesk * Open Sourcing to the world on Stage * Roadmap & Future Why is Developing pipelines hard? Developing CI/CD pipelines is a hard task in a Platform. They need to be resilient, easy to use and extendable pieces of software that are run by another system (AKA Spinnaker, Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD, Waypoint, etc...) When developing, extending or testing pipelines on any 3rd party system there are a few key problems that come up. * Local development can be very hard * Stages/Pipelines are not inherently testable * Collaboration and code re-usability could be re-defined

Speakers

Eyal Mor

Platform Engineering Tech Lead, Autodesk

Eyal is a Software Engineer, Blogger and creator of the Shore Framework For Pipelines. (Additionally SciFi Nerd, Part time Musician, and junior forever!) Starting his career in a software bootcamp, he understood quickly that to make it in tech, you need to reach beyond that. After... Read More →

Simon Chammah

Platform Engineering Manager, Autodesk

Simon Chammah is a Platform Engineering Manager @ Autodesk Starting his career and acquiring experience in the system engineering & infrastructure worlds, He then quickly made the shift to the DevOps & SRE worlds during the Cloud Computing Era, during which He assisted both Intuit... Read More →

spinnaker summit 2022 shore pdf

Monday October 24, 2022 2:25pm - 2:55pm EDT
Ambassador II

Presentation Slides Attached Yes
Speaker Type In person

2:25pm EDT

Policy as [versioned] Code - How to do it Right - Chris Nesbitt-Smith, UK Government | LearnK8s | Control-Plane

Beyond just "don’t run everything as root" In this talk Chris will trace back the origins of how policies are often incepted, how it can get out of hand, be slow if not impossible to update and measure compliance, and often lead us to question of **is the policy helping or hindering**.

Speakers

Chris Nesbitt-Smith

Consultant, UK Government | Learnk8s

Chris has been using and abusing Kubernetes since 0.4 in production, in government, for citizen facing services; he’s worked extensively in critical national infrastructure where “matters of life or death” is not just a flippant throwaway comment. Chris provides training and... Read More →

PolicyAsVersionedCode pdf

Monday October 24, 2022 2:25pm - 2:55pm EDT
Ambassador III

Presentation Slides Attached Yes
Speaker Type In person

3:05pm EDT

Lightning Talk: Automating Industry Regulation (SoX, SoC 2) Enforcement During Software Delivery - Balaji Sivasubramanian & Gopinath Rebela, OpsMx

The development teams in Enterprises are increasingly deploying to environments that must adhere to various industry regulations like SoX, SoC 2, FedRamp, etc. With the increased frequency of deployments and the need to audit them, these control and enforcement must be automated as part of the CI/CD process. This talk will show how to integrate OPA policy integration with Spinnaker and share sample policies for enforcing compliance rules based on real-world regulatory requirements. Also, we will demo the integration, including an audit of the policy enforcement.

Speakers

Balaji Sivasubramanian

VP, Product, OpsMx

Balaji is the Vice President of Product at OpsMx where he focuses on helping companies implement Spinnaker on a large scale. He has over 15 years of experience in product management and marketing in the enterprise software industry. Before joining OpsMx, Balaji was the head of product... Read More →

Gopinath Rebala

CTO, OpsMx Inc

Spinnaker Summit 2022 Compliance Enforcement pdf

Monday October 24, 2022 3:05pm - 3:15pm EDT
Ambassador II

Presentation Slides Attached Yes
Speaker Type In person

3:05pm EDT

Events in Action With Spinnaker, Tekton and Keptn - Jalander Ramagiri & Adam Kenihan, Ericsson Software Technology

Many organizations use more than one CI/CD tools as part of their pipelines and most of the times the organizations implement their own glue code in order to make the tools work with each other. Due to these concerns, CDEvents project hosted by the CDF started working on a common specification for Continuous Delivery events based on CloudEvents hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). CDEvents enables interoperability in the complete software production ecosystem, helping CI/CD tools and services to communicate with each other about occurrences in a CI/CD ecosystem. As part of its work, the community created a Go-SDK to introduce native CDEvents support to various cloud native CI/CD technologies such as Keptn and Tekton. A new Java-SDK has also been developed to bring other CI/CD technologies into the picture such as Spinnaker. In this session, we will talk about the interoperability challenges within the CI/CD ecosystem and how CDEvents aims to overcome those. We will also talk about Java SDK and our proposal to contribute CDEvents support to Spinnaker Community which enables Spinnaker to communicate with other CI/CD tools within the ecosystem.

Speakers

Jalander Ramagiri

Software Engineer, Ericsson Software Technology

Software Engineer, working for Ericsson Software Technology, Ireland. Experience in various tools and technologies. Started working on open source with CDEvents and Spinnaker, CDEvents(https://cdevents.dev/) is a project at the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), which helps to... Read More →

Adam Kenihan

Software Engineer, Ericsson Software Technology

I am new to the world of open source and CI/CD in general, working on spinnaker, Eiffel and CDEvents and trying to integrate myself into the community.

Monday October 24, 2022 3:05pm - 3:35pm EDT
Ambassador III

Speaker Type In person

3:45pm EDT

Getting Started with the Spinnaker Operator and Amazon EKS - Fernando Freire, Armory & Praseeda Sathaye, AWS

Spinnaker is a cloud-native continuous delivery platform that provides fast, safe, and repeatable deployments for every enterprise. Learn from practitioners at AWS and Armory about how to get started with the Spinnaker Operator on Amazon EKS. We’ll take you through the journey of setting up a fresh EKS cluster, installing the Operator, and using Kustomize with Git to create a GitOps workflow to manage the lifecycle of your cluster. We’ll also cover basic deployment patterns in Spinnaker so you can quickly onboard teams in your organization. Join us and learn how to accelerate your organizations’ delivery velocity today!

Speakers

Fernando Freire

Principal Software Engineer, Armory

Hi, my name's Fernando, and my goal is to unlock human potential through software. I'm currently enabling the Global 2000's next digital transformation with Armory, where I manage an engineering team dedicated to innovating the Spinnaker platform. My side hustle is evangelizing and... Read More →

Praseeda Sathaye

Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, App Modernization, AWS

Monday October 24, 2022 3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Ambassador III

Speaker Type In person

4:45pm EDT

Managing Accounts Across AWS Partitions - David Byron, Salesforce

Leveraging Spinnaker to manage web-scale application deployments on AWS can present many challenges. One challenge is supporting multiple AWS partitions such as Gov Cloud and Commercial whilst maintaining sub-linear growth in Spinnaker operations and cost. In AWS, it's not possible to assume roles across partitions. Open-source spinnaker only supports one AWS managing account, which means managed accounts must all be in the same partition. Salesforce has added support for multiple managing accounts, making it possible to support managed accounts in multiple partitions in one spinnaker instance.

Speakers

David Byron

Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Salesforce

David is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff on the Spinnaker Upstream team at Salesforce. The team works to ensure spinnaker runs reliably and performs well at Salesforce at scale. He’s also a member of Spinnaker’s Technical Oversight Committee.

Managing Accounts Across AWS Partitions pdf

Monday October 24, 2022 4:45pm - 5:15pm EDT
Ambassador III

Presentation Slides Attached Yes
Speaker Type In person

5:25pm EDT

Accelerating Collaborative Plugin Development - Joe Cavanagh & Benjamin Powell, Apple, Inc.

Spinnaker's plugin system can significantly benefit an organization by empowering technical users to solve their own problems. Joe and Ben will discuss how we can maximize code reuse, eliminate repository maintenance and toil, and unify CI/CD across many plugins. They will also discuss the mutual benefits of a well-maintained organizational plugin ecosystem for Spinnaker users, developers, and operators. * What is a plugin? * Why plugins? * What to consider when planning your ecosystem * Code Reuse * Plugin Repository * Build * Publish * Operation

Speakers

Joe Cavanagh

Software Engineer, Apple, Inc.

Continuous delivery and deployment automation engineering at Apple. Currently working on Spinnaker.

Benjamin Powell

Software Engineer, Apple, Inc.

Ben Powell is a software engineer at Apple’s iCloud Spinnaker team. Previously he was at AWS for 6 years on teams such as AWS SDK and Tools and AWS ECS’ Container Runtime team. Ben has over 6 years of open source experience with contributing back to projects like the AWS SDK for... Read More →

Monday October 24, 2022 5:25pm - 5:55pm EDT
Ambassador III