Managed Delivery for Kubernetes: A Collaboration Story

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Managed Delivery extends Spinnaker with a Kubernetes plugin that makes keel the source of truth for Git-backed manifests, wiring Git triggers through igor and deploying via generated Kubernetes tasks. Setup uses cleat to generate configs, installs the plugin, and runs periodic sync cycles that detect drift and update clusters. Demo shows a manifest-driven app scaling from 1 to 2 replicas on commit. Features include environment views, pinning and marking versions bad, pluggable resource handlers and resolvers; initial implementation is functional and actively hardened.

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1. 0:00Introduction and agenda
2. 1:09Managed delivery overview
3. 3:44Managed delivery concepts
4. 5:35Delivery configuration
5. 7:42How Keel works
6. 8:46UI features and demos
7. 12:22Kubernetes and Spinnaker
8. 19:37Implementing K8s support
9. 24:07Kubernetes integration demo
10. 28:08Future work and conclusion

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