Spinnaker is a free and

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software platform originally developed by

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and extended by

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. It is designed to work with

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, AWS,

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and

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. Spinnaker was developed by

as a successor to the internally developed Asgard. It was released under the Apache License 2.0 on November 16, 2015 and has been adopted by tech companies.

Summit

An annual summit on Spinnaker software is held; the 2019 summit took place in

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on 15–17 November. The third annual Spinnaker Summit will be co-located with the CD Foundation's cdCon. Day Zero of cdCon is dedicated to Spinnaker topics. After the first day, a Spinnaker track continues as part of main cdCon schedule. cdCon will be fully virtual and held June 23 – 24, 2021.

Commercial vendors

There are companies commercially supporting Spinnaker. Current list of vendors: * Armory *OpsMx

References

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