So yes, Spinnaker is open source and free, but everything comes at a price. The hidden cost is the time your engineers will be spending installing, motioning and upgrading free software instead of creating proprietary value for your business.
Beside this, how is Spinnaker used?
A spinnaker is used for sailing with the direction of the wind. Symmetrical spinnakers have large amounts of camber, making them nearly hemispherical. Both lift and drag propel the boat forward when moving with the wind. Reaching spinnakers have less camber as they operate within an airflow that generates lift.
Additionally, what is kept in an armory?
An armory is a special military building where weapons and ammunition are kept. In the old days, when an army needed more cannon balls, it would retrieve them from an armory.
What is Spinnaker?
Spinnaker is a tool used for Application Management and Application Deployment, targeted towards cloud services. For application management, Spinnaker uses concepts like “Applications”, “Clusters” and “Server Groups” to describe and group deployed services.
Who uses Spinnaker?
Now, the 2,400 contributors to Spinnaker are publicly trackable and include Netflix, Google, Armory, Pivotal, Nike, Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe, Spotify, SAP, Salesforce, HP, Samsung, Uber, NTT, Cisco, JPMorgan Chase, IBM, Oracle, The Home Depot, Volvo, Accenture, and many, many others.
Why should I use Spinnaker?
With Spinnaker, you can deploy faster at high velocity, deploy reliably with confidence, and deploy often. A flexible pipeline management system allows you to use various parameters, event triggers, a gated approval process throughout the pipeline.