Using Pipeline Templates

You can share these templates with your teams within a single application, across different applications, or even across different deployments of Spinnaker itself.

Templates can be managed using spin or the UI. To manage templates through the UI, enable the requisite feature flag:

of a pipeline template is very close to the pipeline JSON configuration format, viewable in the Deck UI. But it includes information about the variables the template uses.

The things you can do with pipeline templates

• Share the template with one or more teams of developers using Spinnaker.

  to Spinnaker to make it available to developers.

• Use the <code>spin</code> CLI to plan how to parameterize the template by visualizing a hydrated pipeline.

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Enable the pipeline templates feature in Spinnaker.

Create and parameterize a pipeline template from an existing pipeline.

Inherit or override template features in your pipeline.

Create pipelines based on a template.

Visualize a pipeline created from a pipeline template without actually instantiating one.