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Hi, this is the CTO of Armory. If any of you have questions about cloud adoption or want to learn more about what setup might work for you, feel free to ask me!

I'm the co-founder and CTO of Armory. I'd be happy to answer any questions about standardized deployments or how Spinnaker achieves that goal!

We believe that engineers should have access to deploy, manage and ultimately own their own deployments. This fundamental change is more commonly known as DevOps. In our interviews with over 100 enterprise companies, before we even incorporated the company, we observed a strong desire for teams to move in this direction. While we are aware there are many laggards, we’re making a bet, with Armory, that companies must move in this direction or die.

That said, it’s an immense challenge working with the F100, which for some, don’t want to move in this direction yet. We’ve chosen not to focus those laggard companies. Even within our current focus, we’ve found that we actually can’t hire fast enough to support new customers who want to truly enable their deployment teams. And yes, it’s very much a “Wicked Problem” to solve but we’re hoping that with Spinnaker and market pressure it helps loosen those roots.

Question about the standard HSA, you say I can invest and withdraw with no penalties unlike a 401k. Is that true?

What are you guys doing to make it easier, specifically for small business to leverage your product?

As of today, that is main value prop, however over time we hope to add other microservices to Spinnaker that will provide value on top of the control plane.

We believe that DevOps encompasses 3 areas that must change: people, processes, & technology. We’re seeing evidence that the people/culture is already changing organically because companies must change in order to compete in the software era, and the velocity at which we see software-first companies entering traditional spaces like banking/finance, real-estate, hotel is also accelerating.

That said, in order to make this rate of change to happen faster, instead of trying to convince people through debates, we have to show proof that moving towards a true DevOps model is successful, not just because you get to deploy more, but because it matters to the business. We want to show that CI/CD helps meet SLAs, new valuable features are added and allows the business to address new markets.

While we're not currently hosting it now, we did start with a hosted solution which is why it exists on our website. Engineering leaders were hesitant to give access to their AWS accounts so they wanted us to bring up Spinnaker in their accounts. Sometime in the future we do intend to revisit hosted Spinnaker.