Orca Internals Overview

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Spinnaker is known and often loved for enabling accessible, highly configurable and composable workflows through its pipelines and tasks. This is largely thanks to the code that makes up Orca.

From Orca’s README :

Orca is the orchestration engine for Spinnaker. It is responsible for taking a pipeline or task definition and managing the stages and tasks, coordinating the other Spinnaker services.

Orca is a stateless, horizontally scalable service. Spinnaker’s execution state is persisted to a backend store and work is distributed evenly through a work queue. So long as your backend persistence layer has capacity, you can freely add or remove Orca servers to match workload demands.

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Orca Internals Overview