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Can anyone give an example of what this would be useful for? I don't really understand its use case and the one sort of example in an image, of creating a k8s n

Can anyone give an example of what this would be useful for? I don't really understand its use case and the one sort of example in an image, of creating a k8s namespace and deployment, is covered by our CI/CD system. If this is meant to replace that and be part of the CI/CD I don't see anything talking about how to trigger the pipelines. I feel like I am missing a small but critical piece to understand how this should be used and where.

fuball63 8y ago
This could be used as an ETL process; one task is to fetch the data, another task to clean and do quality control, and then branching tasks to put the data in its final destination. Really any task that can be broken into concrete and independent steps could be made into a pipeline for scaling and reliability.
michelvocks 8y ago
Hey regnerba. Sorry for the late reply. I don't know which CI/CD system you use but please let me explain my current experience. :-) At my company, we often had the requirement to do complex stuff besides the deployments. For example, we wanted to offer a service for developers that they can via "One-Button-Click" deploy our big monolith into Kubernetes from their code-fork. To get this working, we had to use Spinnaker and Jenkins. We had a really poor experience with Spinnaker cause everything needs to be configured manually and there is no way to actually "code" it. Jenkins supports this via Jenkins Pipelines. Those pipelines are actually nice but they force you to write them in Groovy. Gaia solves this problem. Any programming language can be potentially be used to develop such pipelines.
- danielodio 8y ago
  @michelvocks -- the Armory team would love to hear more about the challenges you had with Spinnaker. (We're commercializing an enterprise version of OSS Spinnaker). Also, we've created a 'pipelines as code' feature called Dinghy that may have helped. And our installer & configurator provides a much smoother install & configure experience. Details at www.Armory.io Hit us up at hello@armory.io if you have more specific feedback (our exec team reads emails to that addy). DROdio

fuball63 8y ago

This could be used as an ETL process; one task is to fetch the data, another task to clean and do quality control, and then branching tasks to put the data in its final destination. Really any task that can be broken into concrete and independent steps could be made into a pipeline for scaling and reliability.

michelvocks 8y ago

Hey regnerba. Sorry for the late reply. I don't know which CI/CD system you use but please let me explain my current experience. :-) At my company, we often had the requirement to do complex stuff besides the deployments. For example, we wanted to offer a service for developers that they can via "One-Button-Click" deploy our big monolith into Kubernetes from their code-fork. To get this working, we had to use Spinnaker and Jenkins. We had a really poor experience with Spinnaker cause everything needs to be configured manually and there is no way to actually "code" it. Jenkins supports this via Jenkins Pipelines. Those pipelines are actually nice but they force you to write them in Groovy. Gaia solves this problem. Any programming language can be potentially be used to develop such pipelines.

danielodio 8y ago
@michelvocks -- the Armory team would love to hear more about the challenges you had with Spinnaker. (We're commercializing an enterprise version of OSS Spinnaker). Also, we've created a 'pipelines as code' feature called Dinghy that may have helped. And our installer & configurator provides a much smoother install & configure experience. Details at www.Armory.io Hit us up at hello@armory.io if you have more specific feedback (our exec team reads emails to that addy). DROdio