# Spinnaker

Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence.

Repository: https://github.com/spinnaker/spinnaker
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/spinnaker
Homepage: http://www.spinnaker.io/
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: continuous-delivery, continuous-deployment, spinnaker
Last push: 2026-08-25T20:22:44+00:00
Link (homepage): http://www.spinnaker.io/
Link (site_page): https://spinnaker.io/docs
Link (site_page): https://spinnaker.io/docs/community
Link (site_page): https://spinnaker.io/docs/releases/versions
Link (site_page): https://spinnaker.io/docs/setup/install

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 95, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4445, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 34, "gap_med": 7, "n_releases_24m": 40}
- flags: no_readme
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9776, forks 1271 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:37.123055+00:00)

## What it is
Spinnaker is an open-source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform created at Netflix that combines flexible pipeline management with integrations to major cloud providers like AWS, Kubernetes, GCP, and Azure. It supports automated releases with built-in deployment strategies such as blue/green and canary deployments, plus role-based access control and enterprise authentication.

## Use cases
- automate software releases across multiple cloud providers
- set up blue/green and canary deployment pipelines
- standardize release processes across engineering teams
- trigger deployments from git events, Jenkins, or CI systems
- roll out changes to Kubernetes with automated rollbacks
- implement automated canary analysis for safe deployments
- manage immutable infrastructure deployments in the cloud

## When to choose
- you need multi-cloud or multi-target deployment from a single platform
- your organization wants battle-tested enterprise continuous delivery with RBAC and SSO
- you rely on canary analysis and immutable infrastructure practices
- you deploy at high scale and need proven pipeline orchestration

## When to avoid
- you want a lightweight CI/CD tool for small projects or simple pipelines
- you cannot spare the significant resources required (18GB+ memory Kubernetes cluster)
- your team prefers simple YAML-based pipelines over a full UI-driven platform
- you need a lightweight GitOps-only workflow

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: deployment, ci-cd, workflow-automation, monitoring, auth, authorization
- domain: cloud-computing, microservices, developer-tools
- platform: cloud, self-hosted, jvm
- tags: continuous-delivery, continuous-deployment, canary-deployments, blue-green-deployment, multi-cloud, pipeline-management, kayenta, automated-rollbacks, devops, containers, automation, kubernetes, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- spinnaker/spinnaker (main) score 98
- spinnaker/kayenta (plugin) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.123055+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:21:02.176980+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - homepage: http://www.spinnaker.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:49.312679+00:00, sha f747615370e5)
  - site_page: https://spinnaker.io/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:49.315332+00:00, sha 4466dae4fc1d)
  - site_page: https://spinnaker.io/docs/community (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:49.316940+00:00, sha 3f7b5bfe25f7)
  - site_page: https://spinnaker.io/docs/releases/versions (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:49.318513+00:00, sha b88103b8f7f7)
  - site_page: https://spinnaker.io/docs/setup/install (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:49.320403+00:00, sha 07b5c988b6ca)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.