Renaming An Application in Spinnaker


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Question:

Can I Rename An Application in Spinnaker?

Answer:

No, and yes. Can you, yes. Should you, no. The preferred approach is to create a new application and copy and paste your pipelines over from the other application.

A primary reason of why not to rename the application is because Spinnaker names resources based on your application name. For example if you have a deployment stage, it will deploy the resources based on the application name. If you change the application name, there is a chance you could orphan those resources.