Meet the team: Daniel Holbach (Community Manager)
Meet Daniel Holbach, who joined us recently as Community Manager on the DX Team. Daniel is a software developer and will use his experience at Ubuntu to head up community events and meetups in both London and Berlin. He is also a Developer Advocate for Weave Cloud and for the Weaveworks’ Open Source Projects: Flux, Scope, Cortex and Net.
Meet the team: Stefan Prodan (DX Engineer)
Next up in our "meet the team" blog series is Stefan Prodan, another one of our super talented Developer Experience Engineers. He spends most of his time here at Weaveworks integrating and testing different open source projects with Weave Cloud and blogging about it. He’s passionate about all things Cloud Native, programs in Golang and has a soft spot for Prometheus as well as OpenFaaS serverless technology -- where he is a core contributor.
Meet the team: Ilya Dmitrichenko (DX Engineer)
Continuing with our "meet the team" blog series, we introduce Ilya Dmitrichenko. Ilya is one of our talented DX engineers at Weaveworks who spends a lot of his time seeking out new technology and coming up with innovative workflows that end up in our products. In addition to this, Ilya is also a CNCF ambassador and is a presenter and one of the creators of the Kubernetes Office Hours
Meet the Team: Brice Fernandes (Weaveworks Engineer)
This is the first post in our ‘Meet the Team’ blog series. We will be showcasing some of the Weaveworks’ team who are attending, speaking and teaching at the upcoming CNCF KubeCon held in Copenhagen. First up is Brice Fernandes - software engineer, entrepreneur and instructor.
The Shift to Microservices and Continuous Delivery
In this blog we provide some context around why you need microservices and explain how the adoption of microservices was the catalyst that ultimately led to continuous delivery and continuous processes.
Practical Continuous Delivery
Making the transition to automated continuous delivery pipelines can be a challenging process. Read this blog to learn some best practices for implementing CD pipelines in your organization.
Chaos meets GitOps - stress test and improve your app speed using ChaosIQ with Weave Cloud
Sylvain Hellegouarch (ChaosIQ) demonstrates how to implement an accelerated learning and system-improvement loop. With ChaosIQ , built on top of the open source Chaos Toolkit, controlled and careful Chaos Engineering experiments were executed against a system running in Kubernetes and then observed, diagnosed and rolled out with Weave Cloud to make improvements based on the surfaced weaknesses.
Case study: Weave Net brings wealth of security to Wealth Wizards
Learn how an online financial advisory company secured their Kubernetes clusters and the benefits gained when using Weave Net to maintain security and compliance.
Connect with the Kubernetes Community in Copenhagen
We’re counting down the days until we visit the Kubernetes community in Copenhagen, for the next KubeCon event (30 April - 4 May). Read our top 10 reasons for why you should attend!
Top 11 Continuous Delivery Tools for Kubernetes (Part 2)
In this Part 2 of our top 11 CICD tools for creating an automated pipeline to Kubernetes, we looked at tools designed for Continuous Delivery.
Top 11 Continuous Delivery Tools for Kubernetes (Part 1)
In this blog we look at the top 11 tools for continuous delivery to Kubernetes and discuss the pros and cons of each one.
CI/CD for Kubernetes: What you need to know
Read about automating CI/CD pipelines to Kubernetes, the latest addition to our Kubernetes library pages. Help inform your decision on why you need automation, how to keep your cluster secure and what’s available on the market today.
Linux Namespaces and Go Started to Mix
The recently released Go 1.10 has addressed problems mentioned in the “Linux Namespaces and Go Don’t Mix” post. Find out what changes were made to the Go runtime system.
Top 5 Kubernetes Best Practices From Sandeep Dinesh (Google)
Learn what the top 5 best practices are for building, deploying and managing services in Kubernetes from Sandeep Dinesh, Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Platform.
Ensure High Availability and Uptime With Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and Prometheus
Not all systems can meet their SLAs by relying on CPU/memory usage metrics alone, most web and mobile backends require autoscaling based on requests per second to handle any traffic bursts. This step by step guide shows you how to set up Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler with Prometheus defined custom metrics, to fine tune your application monitoring and ensure high availability.
Kops vs. Kubeadm: What’s the difference?
Find out the differences between two Kubernetes installers, kops and kubeadm. This blog describes how to use them and when you’d use one installation method over another.
GitOps Part 4 - Application Delivery Compliance and Secure CICD
Part 4 of the GitOps blog series explains how you can make your continuous delivery pipeline more secure using 3 best practices which enables auditing and compliance. This is aimed at Kubernetes users who have adopted Continuous Integration (CI) and who want to add Continuous Deployment (CD) to their pipeline.
Keeping Helm changes consistent and reliable with Weave Flux
While Helm helps with getting applications running, you need other tooling to keep them up to date when something changes. Check out our alpha release of our Helm integration in Weave Flux. It makes sure your Helm chart releases are kept up to date with what’s in Git. You can try it out using the published repository in Github.
Promote Container Images across Environments with Weave Cloud: Deploy
Weave Cloud Deploy is a Continuous Deployment/Delivery operator for Kubernetes which makes it super easy to automate releases to a cluster - but what about multiple clusters? Weave Cloud Deploy can filter tags - by tagging each image with an environment specific prefix, it’s possible for the same image build to be automatically released to each environment in turn.