Posts in category continuous-delivery
Application Portability for the Cloud Era
Each dev team has different needs and wants the autonomy to choose their own cloud provider or preferred cloud services. It becomes the job of the platform team to ensure that any required cloud service is supported by the organization's technology stack. In this era of distributed cloud applications, application portability has become even more important.
The GitOps Maturity Model - 4 evolutionary steps to continuous delivery
While every organization is different, a number of common patterns have emerged. The GitOps Maturity Model shows a simple four step process that organizations commonly transition through as they move from using GitOps to manage single clusters and applications to managing large scale deployments of hundreds or even thousands of clusters.
Automate Progressive Deployments to Kubernetes with Flagger and Linkerd
Use Flagger with Linkerd to automate progressive deployments like canaries and other advanced deployment strategies for your Kubernetes workloads. Linkerd implements the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) Traffic Split API. This allows Flagger to control the traffic between two versions of the same application.
Flagger Adds Support for Service Mesh Interface API an Open Standard Specification from Microsoft
Flagger and Weave Cloud now supports the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) API for advanced deployments like canary to Kubernetes. SMI is an open project started in partnership with Microsoft, Buoyant, HashiCorp, Solo, F5, Red Hat, and WeaveWorks.
Kubernetes Deployment Strategies
With more frequent releases, the chances of negatively affecting application reliability or customer experience can increase. Learn why effective deployment strategies help teams minimize risk.
Reduce Continuous Deployment Complexity with Flagger and Istio
Weaveworks Developer Experience engineer, Stefan Prodan (@stefanprodan), recently posted a tutorial on the Google Cloud Platform blog describing how to use Flagger and Istio to automate canary style deployments to Kubernetes.
Why is a PULL vs a PUSH pipeline important?
What is meant by a pull pipeline? How is it different from a push pipeline? This post compares pull vs push and how pull pipelines are key to GitOps best practices.
What CICD tool should I use?
Discover what components make up an automated pipeline, the features you need to consider and how to incorporate GitOps when evaluating CICD tools. Find out more today from Weaveworks.
Kubernetes Workload Promotion in GitOps CD Pipelines
Read about our new Weave Cloud feature that lets you promote workloads between clusters. Find out how this can help your team accelerate the delivery of features to Kubernetes.
Getting Started with the OpenFaaS Kubernetes Operator on EKS
The OpenFaaS team recently released a Kubernetes operator for OpenFaaS. The OpenFaaS Operator can be run with OpenFaaS on any Kubernetes service, in this post I will show you step-by-step instructions on how to deploy to Amazon's managed Kubernetes service (EKS).
GitOps - Git Push all the Things - Alexis Richardson keynote address
Read a recap and then watch Alexis Richardson deliver the keynote at the Continuous Lifecycle London conference. Alexis discusses industry standards, current trends in CI/CD and then shows how developers can take control of development pipelines and operations tasks using familiar tools and workflows.
Building Continuous Delivery Pipelines
Download our eBook, Building Continuous Delivery Pipelines, to learn how to plan and implement a CD pipeline in your organization, including the benefits and best practises.
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.
5 steps to achieve Continuous Delivery
Read our latest whitepaper which details the hurdles that DevOps teams must clear in order to move from Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery. It is designed as a resource for DevOps practitioners who want to take full advantage of the efficiencies and operational advantages that CD enables, yet struggle to overcome the conceptual, cultural and technological challenges that complicate the transition from CI to CD.