🔌 Plugin: Spinnaker

[stefanalund]

Summary

Visualise and manage deployments in Spinnaker.

Project website (if applicable)

https://www.spinnaker.io/reference/api/

Context

The existing Deck project can potentially be used: https://github.com/spinnaker/deck

[jackskj]

I can take a stab at this feature.
PS: a lot of k8s related features (#632) can be implemented with spinnaker integration by leveraging cloud driver (https://www.spinnaker.io/setup/install/providers/kubernetes-v2/)

[stefanalund]

Great @jackskj -- assigned you!

[biggusbeetus]

@jackskj maybe the Kubernetes plugin backend could register the routes used in spinnaker backend. How are you planning on developing it?

[jackskj]

what do you refer to by "routes"

[jackskj]

With spinnaker, a user may or may not have access to a particular k8s account, regardless what access the user may have with backstage k8s plugin. This is because access control for spinnaker resources is managed separately.

I am not sure how you will name each k8s account in backstage plugin (perhaps by context name). But if you were to route from k8s plugin to spinnaker plugin, the k8s account name should match. (in spinnaker, k8s account names are set by the admin)

[biggusbeetus]

Do you think it would be better just to handle all authentication via contexts in the kubeconfig file? I still haven't decided how to set up k8s accounts in the plugin 🤔. I am using this as an example https://github.com/hjacobs/kube-web-view

[jackskj]

yes, kubeconfig is fine. However, not every user should have access to every k8s account(context). Spinnaker admins usually configure which user groups have read/write/execute permissions for a particular k8s account

[dnilasor]

Hey, is this still active? AirBnb and others on the Spinnaker UX SIGs have been working in some frontend projects for Spinnaker that sound related. Would love to have you/Spotify in on a groupthink about what we can build for OSS as a baseline. Also are you familiar with the Spinnaker plugin framework?

[irenefva]

Hello, is the plugin in progress or is there an intention to create it?

[benjdlambert]

Hey! Sorry for the radio silence from our side. It's not something that the core team will be working on, and we don't utilize enough of spinnaker internally at spotify to open source our internal code. Is there someone that would like to work on this ticket?