What is a Spinnaker Artifact? on Spinnaker

Artifacts from Build Triggers

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Overview

When an external CI system triggers a pipeline, Spinnaker can use the CI build information to inject relevant artifacts into the pipeline. The instructions here assume that you have set up a CI system and are familiar with using property files to pass variables from CI builds to Spinnaker pipelines.

The extraction of artifacts from the build information is done via a Jinja template; the template uses the trigger as context and outputs a list of artifacts to inject into the pipeline. Spinnaker provides a set of standard templates to use for artifact extraction, which users can augment with custom templates.

Artifacts In App Engine

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Artifacts can be used for the following in the Google App Engine provider:

They can be used to reference a GCS bucket that contains source code to be deployed on Google App Engine.
They can be used to reference a docker image stored in Google Container Registry to be deployed on App Engine Flex.
They can be used to reference config files (such as app.yaml) to be used during deployment to App Engine.

Artifacts referencing source code from GCS

To use an artifact to reference source code that is stored in a GCS bucket, use the “GCS” Source Type when configuring a Server Group.

Artifacts In Cloud Foundry

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Artifacts referencing app manifest

To use an artifact to reference a manifest file (such as a manifest stored in a GitHub repository), choose “Artifact from execution context” in the Application section of the “Configure Deployment Cluster” screen, and configure the artifact details.

In a Deploy stage, choose a GitHub file artifact as the manifest source for a server group.

Artifacts In Kubernetes

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Manifests as artifacts

There are two ways to deploy a manifest:

The manifest is supplied statically to a pipeline as text
The manifest is supplied as an artifact

The image below shows a deploy stage that deploys a manifest stored in a GCS bucket:

Depending on how this pipeline is configured, it will only run when the referenced file in GCS is modified.