hands-on lab

Automated EKS Application Deployment Using Spinnaker

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: Up to 2 hours

Students: 32

Rating: 5/5

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Description

As enterprises increasingly embrace microservices architecture for scalability, there is a growing demand for efficient solutions to optimize their CI/CD workflows. Spinnaker stands out as an essential tool, enabling businesses to automate their software delivery process through structured pipelines.

In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to configure Spinnaker to support the continuous deployment of a basic web application into a lab-provided EKS cluster.

The lab will start with an empty EKS cluster into which you'll be instructed on how to install and set up Spinnaker. You’ll then configure Spinnaker to support the deployment of a simple web application across multiple environments (Dev and Prod), modeled within the EKS cluster using namespaces. The configuration steps performed within this lab will include the following:

Use Halyard to configure and deploy Spinnaker into the provided EKS cluster
Use the Spin CLI to deploy a preconfigured multistage deployment pipeline
Execute the Spinnaker pipeline to perform a deployment of a web application packaged within a customized Helm chart
Confirm that the web application is fully functional within both the Dev and Prod environments

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this intermediate-level lab, you will:

Understand how to install and set up Spinnaker within EKS
Understand how to create and configure Spinnaker pipelines to support continuous deployment
Understand how to deploy and expose EKS-hosted applications