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Is it safe/right to deploy Spinnaker to same kubernetes cluster which Spinnaker will manage?

I cannot find any articles answering question: Is it safe/right to deploy Spinnaker to same Kubernetes cluster which Spinnaker will manage? Mainly I mean for production, HA deployments.

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  • I think the architectures of Spinnaker and Kubernetes compliment each other very well, and running Spinnaker in the same K8s cluster it is managing is definitely safe.

    As per your comment in @mdirkse's answer, there is a codelab, which is official Spinnaker documentation, that explains how to create a set of basic pipelines for deploying code from a Github repo to a production Kubernetes cluster in the form of a Docker container.

    In this documentation, it specifically states the following:

    We will be deploying Spinnaker to the same Kubernetes cluster it will be managing. ...

    Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for though.