April 06, 2021
Key Learnings from GitOps Days 2020: Compliance + Governance - part 2
How can strongly regulated industries such as the financial or healthcare sectors use GitOps to help with Compliance & Governance in today’s modern development world? We summarized key takeaways from a talk at GitOps Day 2020.
April 01, 2021
Delivery engineering = GitOps at State Farm
At State Farm delivery engineering is about enabling every product team to deploy changes to platforms in a simple, compliant, and repeatable manner - a very succinct explanation of the term "GitOps". Tune in to hear more about State Farm's adoption journey of GitOps.
March 30, 2021
Multi-cloud Strategies with Kubernetes and GitOps
Adopting a multi-cloud strategy has many advantages, however it also has its own set of challenges and obstacles. We delve into the benefits of multi-cloud and how to overcome its challenges using Kubernetes and GitOps.
March 25, 2021
GitOps Use Cases at the Edge
Telcos have a lot to gain from 5G and edge networks, and this has ripple effects on their customers. In our latest blog post, we are examining four key benefits of the 5G edge from the perspective of a telco, and what this means for their customers. We also connect these benefits to Kubernetes and GitOps practices, which is the key enabler.
March 18, 2021
GitOps across the Edge and all Clouds
In this two-part series we discuss why Kubernetes is vital for telcos to set up operations at the edge, and how GitOps is key to managing and scaling Kubernetes at the edge. Together, they make for a comprehensive strategy for telcos looking to rollout 5G services in the near future.
March 15, 2021
Axel Springer automates test environment setup with GitOps and GitHub Actions
Discover how the infrastructure team at Axel Springer SE, one of the largest publishers in Europe, was able to set up a Kubernetes platform leveraging GitOps and GitHub Actions that allowed their developers to create and tear down test environments on demand within minutes.
March 04, 2021
2020 State of DevOps - GitOps accelerates self service
The 2020 State of DevOps report touches on a central issue for application and platform teams - the idea of introducing self service workflows. High performing teams are keen on realizing the benefits such as a self-service developer experience, continuous platform improvement, and an always-available audit trail. We analyzed how GitOps introduces automation and standardization that lead to a successful platform model.
February 25, 2021
Flux v2 is getting closer
The Flux to Flux v2 migration period is coming soon. In this post we give an overview of the new features that have been added, including where and how to test Flux v2 before GA.
February 16, 2021
Progressively Delivering Applications Across Cloud and On-Premise
For many teams moving legacy services to run on a modern cloud native stack, is daring and sometimes not even feasible due to regulatory requirements. In this true hybrid scenario, we will be explaining how to move legacy apps progressively to Kubernetes in a secure and controlled manner.
February 09, 2021
Key Learnings from GitOps Days 2020: Compliance + Governance
How can strongly regulated industries such as the financial or healthcare sectors use GitOps to help with Compliance & Governance in today’s modern development world? We summarized key takeaways from a talk at GitOps Day 2020.
January 28, 2021
GitOps is model driven automation
SE Podcast host Robert Blumen spoke with Alexis Richardson about the origins of GitOps and the separation of the front end process for landing commits and the back end for applying them. Further they explore the concept of convergent infrastructure and applying infrastructure as code to deployments. Tune in to hear how Weaveworks uses GitOps as a disaster recovery tool and helps clients in complex regulatory environments simplifying their cloud native operations.
January 26, 2021
How GitOps Boosts Business Performance: The Facts
Our latest whitepaper explores findings from the recent DORA report, including the direct correlation of the four key metrics and GitOps patterns. Learn how to boost business performance.
January 19, 2021
GitOps-based Policy Management: How to Scale in a Multi-Node, Multicloud World
Organizations deploying Kubernetes on a massive scale across multiple backends require an automated, secure and consistent approach for managing clusters – one that they can use efficiently no matter how many clusters or clouds or other configurations are included.
January 14, 2021
GitOps for Cost Efficiency, Compliance, Velocity, Security, and Resilience
Many know that GitOps is a way for your engineering teams to reliably deliver applications and infrastructure to the cloud. But how can you measure its success and connect business outcomes like profitability and market share back to the capabilities of GitOps?
January 05, 2021
Cloud Native Operations and GitOps
In a Spotlight Series with James Green of ActualTech Media, Cornelia discusses the concepts behind GitOps. Originally coined at Weaveworks, GitOps brings reliability to cloud native environments that are fundamentally unreliable, highly distributed and are constantly in flux.
December 17, 2020
How GitOps Improves the Security of Your Development Pipelines
At our recent virtual event, GitOps Days 2020, Maya Kaczorowski, GitHub Product Manager, shared her thoughts on how GitOps can boost the security of your entire development pipeline.
December 15, 2020
Key Learnings from GitOps Days EMEA
This blog is the first in a series of recap blogs from the GitOps Days EMEA event we ran last month. The focus for this blog is on Helm. It features a playlist of Helm talks, including an overview of the business benefits for using Helm.
December 08, 2020
Leading Cloud and Telecom providers Invest 36M in Series C to Accelerate GitOps
Alexis Richardson, CEO at Weaveworks shares his insights on our recent funding: "GitOps and containers already matter, but they are critical going forward. Containers will be how we ship and run many applications as well as high productivity applications and GitOps will be how we manage them."
November 19, 2020
Announcing the GitOps Working Group
The GitOps Working Group’s goal is to provide companies and individuals with the skills, knowledge and competency to implement GitOps tooling and methodologies which simplify the operation and management of infrastructure and cloud native applications. Read the announcement on how to get involved.
November 17, 2020
Migrating Legacy Apps to Kubernetes with GitOps
For many organizations, moving legacy applications to Kubernetes holds great promise including reduced IT overhead, and accelerated development times. But in reality, migration projects can be delayed with service interruptions while the entire team transitions.