Spinnaker vs UrbanCode Deploy comparison

Spinnaker and IBM are both solutions in the Release Automation category. Spinnaker is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while IBM is ranked #12. Spinnaker holds a 0.7% mindshare in RA, compared to IBM’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Spinnaker users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Spinnaker

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75% willing to recommend

UrbanCode Deploy

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Spinnaker and UrbanCode Deploy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Release Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Spinnaker

Ranking in Release Automation

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

UrbanCode Deploy

Ranking in Release Automation

12th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Release Automation category, the mindshare of Spinnaker is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UrbanCode Deploy is 3.9%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Release Automation

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Anurag Bandyopadhyay

Product Development Engineer at Razorpay

Useful to create custom pipelines

Regarding areas for improvement, one significant issue is the lack of maker-checker flows to ensure that newly created pipelines are accurate and tested. We currently use an in-house abstraction over Spinnaker to verify pipeline specs, environment variables, etc. It would be beneficial if Spinnaker could offer this functionality within their product.

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reviewer887301

Software Engineering Director at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Versatile solution with the powerful functionality to automate the execution of deployments

The technical support of the solution could definitely be improved as PMRs take a long to resolve. The cost of the solution is high. It would be good to have the support of public cloud services like Azure. My team has also had some concerns around security when using this solution.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Spinnaker is used for automating a variety of deployment tasks, infrastructure, provisioning tasks, and all kinds of things."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its intuitive interface for converting existing Kubernetes specs into working pipelines. It's easy for anyone to deploy anything on any environment when they need to test or deploy for a specific merchant or use case. Instead of going into the specs and changing different variables, they can do it through the UI, which is very useful."

"There is a good community around the product that makes troubleshooting possible."

"The most valuable feature of Spinnaker is the rollback."

"The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently."

"The most valuable feature is the snapshot functionality, which allows us to access previous versions of the artifacts."

"The most valuable functionality is the ability to define the deployment process, schedule the deployment and automatically execute the deployments to different environments."

"Stable solution that's good for automating the CI/CD pipeline: from development to production."

"The stability is good. I haven't experienced any issues."

"It is very easy to make a software release. It used to take us at least a couple of hours to make a release, now we went to production with a new one last night. This new release took me five minutes."

Cons

"Spinnaker's configuration setup is too complicated and should be made easy."

"Regarding areas for improvement, one significant issue is the lack of maker-checker flows to ensure that newly created pipelines are accurate and tested. We currently use an in-house abstraction over Spinnaker to verify pipeline specs, environment variables, etc. It would be beneficial if Spinnaker could offer this functionality within their product."

"Every time it goes to run a pipeline, it just generates a lot of data, and its database is not exactly tuned out of the box, meaning it is not tuned for high scalability."

"Log-wise, we need to understand why something has failed so that we can understand and try to fix it the moment the issue is reported. The solution could use more robust monitoring."

"The interface allows access in a number of ways but that can be confusing."

"I certainly would like to have a better way to pass information between deployment steps using UrbanCode Deploy because that's really difficult to do."

"The technical support of the solution could definitely be improved as PMRs take long to resolve."

"The scalability of this application needs improvement. Changes and variations in the application become bottlenecks as they need to be more seamless and comfortable."

"I would like to see more reporting for container architecture."

"I would like to have the agent up and running at all times, as opposed to only while it is in the DevOps pipeline."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Spinnaker is an open-source product. The tool is completely free for users."

"The solution is open-source."

"Spinnaker is a free-to-use, open-source solution."

"The cost of the solution is high but it offers great ROI."

"Considering COVID-19, the price is too high."

"The licensing fees for this solution are based on the number of servers that are being deployed and the number of agents that you have."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

22%

Retailer

12%

Healthcare Company

Educational Organization

66%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Spinnaker?

The most valuable feature of Spinnaker is the rollback.

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Spinnaker

IBM

Overview

Spinnaker provides application management and deployment to help you release software changes with high velocity and confidence. Spinnaker is an open-source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform that combines a powerful and flexible pipeline management system with integrations to the major cloud providers. If you are looking to standardize your release processes and improve quality, Spinnaker is for you.

IBM UrbanCode Deploy orchestrates and automates the deployment of applications, middleware configuration, and database changes into development, test, and production environments—local, dedicated or shared cloud environments—accelerating time to market and reducing cost by shrinking manual efforts from days to minutes with automation, while reducing risk by cutting deployment errors by up to 90 percent.

Sample Customers

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As policy, IBM does not release customer names on non-IBM web sites. However, public DevOps and UrbanCode Deploy case studies can be found here. IBM's UrbanCode Deploy customers span Small-Medium Businesses to Fortune 500 companies across all industries worldwide.

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