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September 19, 2019

Weaveworks Named a Top Kubernetes Contributor

Weaveworks was recently named one of the top eight contributing companies to Kubernetes. Find out more about the CNCF’s Kubernetes Project Journey report.

August 15, 2019

Flux Joins the CNCF Sandbox

Flux, the Kubernetes GitOps operator, has been accepted as a Sandbox project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Built to drive Weaveworks’ own deployment pipeline, Flux operates by updating Kubernetes manifests, applying them, and then committing the change to git.

July 10, 2019

Fire Up Your VMs with Weave Ignite

For the last few months we have been playing with a little side project called “Ignite”. Ignite is a GitOps-managed Virtual Machine (VM) with a container UX. A “container VM” that is both secure and lightning fast.

May 28, 2019

An Introduction to Kubernetes Security with Aqua and Weaveworks

Don’t miss our upcoming webinar on an Introduction to Kubernetes Security with Liz Rice, of Aqua and Brice Fernandes, Weaveworks engineer.

April 16, 2019

DevOps Orchestration in a Cloud-Native World - A GigaOm Research Byte

Weaveworks is one of a subset of providers that exclusively focuses on Kubernetes as an orchestration approach. The company spotlights improving the pipeline elements of the developer experience, helping with platforms that can enable best practice on operating Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms.

March 25, 2019

Weaveworks Wins 451 Firestarter Award

451 Research's Firestarter program recognizes exceptional innovation within the information technology industry. Its teams of technology and market experts nominate organizations it believes significantly contribute to the overall pace in the market.

February 12, 2019

It Will Be Huge - Kicking Off IBM Think 2019!

Weaveworks is participating in IBM Think 2019. Join the Weaveworks team for three days of hands-on product demos, a Cloud Native session, and one-on-one time with Weaveworks developers.

December 06, 2018

Never Lose Data with Persistent Volume Snapshots in Weave Scope 1.10

Weave Scope 1.10 just landed with many improvements. Kubernetes Persistent Volumes clone/snapshot operations are now supported. Scope got faster, bugs were fixed and its community is more active than it’s ever been.

November 27, 2018

Celebrating an AWSome partnership

Weaveworks is celebrating joining the AWS container competency program. Our operational expertise running Kubernetes on AWS infrastructure enables us to make our customers successful with their Kubernetes plans - without the steep learning curve.

November 13, 2018

Weave Increased Our Flux Capacity

A lot has been happening in Weave Flux. Catch up on Flux’s development, new features and its community!

October 11, 2018

eksctl makes it easy to run Istio on EKS

Follow a tutorial to get started with Istio on AWS' EKS with eksctl and also learn what new features made it into this release.

September 19, 2018

Weaveworks Cortex - the newest member of the CNCF Sandbox

Cortex, our scalable Prometheus monitoring system, has been accepted as a Sandbox project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Cortex is an open source project that we created to provide storage of Prometheus metrics for Weave Cloud. It's used by teams that are running large Prometheus environments, providing metrics for complex Kubernetes environments.

August 02, 2018

Introducing eksctl 0.1.0 - our first major release

Read about our first major release of eksctl. eksctl is a simple CLI tool for creating clusters on EKS - Amazon’s new managed Kubernetes service for EC2. It is written in Go, and is based on Amazon’s official CloudFormation templates. Create a cluster with a single command.

May 01, 2018

Operate and scale Kubernetes with our support

Operate an agile Kubernetes infrastructure backed by Weaveworks’ experts. We’ll help you build and operate Kubernetes, providing advice and support. Our support covers the critical workflows and technologies so you can build, run and scale with confidence.

February 21, 2018

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.

December 07, 2017

Free tier of Weave Cloud on Google Cloud Platform

We've partnered with the Google team to create a simple set-up process that makes it easy to experience the power of Kubernetes (GKE) with Weave Cloud’s management capabilities. If you're exploring Kubernetes and want a completely integrated CI/CD pipeline with observability and monitoring then this gives you everything you need.

November 28, 2017

Flux 1.1 release (deploy all the things!)

The Flux 1.1. release allows to automate updates to DaemonSets, StatefulSets and CronJobs in addition to Deployments. Now you can automate releases of application components in most of your infrastrcture.

June 26, 2017

Weave Net 2.0 Released: Peer Discovery, Docker Swarm plugin & CLI changes

Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of Weave Net 2.0, which features a peer discovery feature via Weave Cloud, a Docker Swarm plugin, and several changes to Weave Net’s CLI and internals.

June 22, 2017

Visualizing resource utilization with Scope

The Weave Scope UI provides a neat way of visualizing the real-time state of your application as a graph of interconnected nodes. While good for answering structural questions about your system, this view falls short when trying to...

May 24, 2017

Understand Istio with Weave Cloud

In the Weave Cloud and Istio tutorial, we show you how to configure Istio for microservices and how to use Weave Cloud to explore and monitor the traffic flow between the microservices as it runs in the service mesh.

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