# Configure & Setup Spinnaker with ISD

Spinnaker is the underlying orchestration engine for ISD. To access a spinnaker from ISD, Users have to configure their spinnaker instance with ISD. To configure follow the steps below:

1. From the ISD application dashboard, Click "**Setup**" --> Click "**Spinnaker**" --> and then Click "**Add Spinnaker"** button as shown in the image below.

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2\. Below screen will appear and update the required details and then click "**Update**" to save your details. 

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Fill in the following details.

* **Spinnaker Name**: User defined name for Spinnaker instance.\
  Example: opsmx-spinnaker
* **Spinnaker Gate URL**: Gate URL of the Spinnaker instance.
* **Authentication Type:**: Can be LDAP or X509
* **Token:** This is used when Authentication Type is LDAP
* **Password:** This is used when Authentication Type is LDAP; Password for P12 File.
* **P12 File:** This is used when Authentication Type is X509; P12 File needed for X509/AD Authentication
* **Source Control for Accounts:** In this section, you can specify the repository for External configuration in Spinnaker
* **Source Control for Pipeline:** In this section, you can specify the repository for pipeline gitOps in Spinnaker that allows you to save and restore pipelines from a git repository