May 20, 2020
There’s More to GitOps Than Meets the Eye
GitOps has become a standard way to manage cloud native applications, and demonstrates real value for application teams. GitOps though can manage more than apps. Read Cornelia Davis’ post on how it can also deliver complete cluster platforms and also integrate with other sources of record.
May 11, 2020
GitOps Days 2020 (May 20 & 21) You are invited!
You are invited: GitOps Days 2020 (May 20 & 21). Whether you’ve been wanting to learn about GitOps for the first time or you want to get your teams on board with GitOps, this event is for you! This free online event will run from 9:00am PT to 3:00pm PT over two days.
May 05, 2020
Case study: Mettle leverages GitOps for self-service developer platform
Learn how a UK financial tech company setup a self-service platform for their engineering team using Weave Flux and the benefits of leveraging GitOps to decrease time to production whilst maintaining security and compliance.
April 29, 2020
Fk-covid: A Kubernetes Bundle for Inferencing COVID X-Rays with Machine Learning
Fk-covid is an open source application for running COVID-Net, is an easy way to run new X-Ray diagnostic tools recently developed by the COVID R&D community especially the University of Waterloo and DarwinAI. It brings together open source tools from Spotify, Google, AWS, Azure, Weaveworks, MinIO and the CNCF at the Linux Foundation.
April 15, 2020
15 Years of Git - A New Stack Podcast
Linus Torvalds invented Git 15 years ago in order to continue development of the Linux kernel. Following on this 15 year milestone, the Newstack recorded a discussion with industry leaders from GitHub, GitLab and Weaveworks - companies who have all built businesses around Git.
April 09, 2020
Introducing Helm Operator 1.0
Today, we’re happy to announce the release of Helm Operator 1.0! With the Helm Operator you can now declaratively manage Helm releases with GitOps. Read more on the blog.
April 02, 2020
Ops Automation - GitOps in the Modern Enterprise
As modern enterprises move more towards Kubernetes and its ecosystem of cloud native tooling - all declarative constructs that can be managed as code - the processes for managing infrastructure are evolving that employ similar strategies previously reserved for application development. More on the blog.
March 24, 2020
An Overview of Modern Ops in the Enterprise
In this article, we discuss Modern Operations, and what it looks like in an enterprise environment. We’ll also discuss the advantages of modernizing the technology stack and development practices in an enterprise. Finally, since everything good comes at a cost, we’re going to have a very candid and open conversation about the foundational elements you’ll need to put in place to ensure that your modernization strategy pays off.
March 12, 2020
Announcing Flagger 1.0
We're happy to announce the first release candidate of Flagger 1.0! Version 1.0 comes with the promise of a stable API. The canary resource is no longer alpha and the API has been extended to facilitate integrations with external monitoring systems and alerting platforms.
March 11, 2020
Bottlerocket with Fork, Clone, Run! - A Container Optimized OS with a GitOps model
Bottlerocket OS is a secure, fast and easy to manage, Linux-based operating system. With EKS as the cluster control plane, Bottlerocket instances join the cluster as workers. It also works out of the box with one of our GitOps models, Fork Clone Run.
March 03, 2020
Fork, Clone, Run: A GitOps Model for Provisioning Multi-Machine HA Clusters with Rolling Upgrades
Preparing a Kubernetes cluster should be as easy as 1-2-3. With the GitOps operational model, fork, clone, run is a simple workflow that anyone can use to provision easy-to-manage Kubernetes clusters.
February 27, 2020
Enterprise Ready GitOps with the Weave Kubernetes Platform
Weaveworkers Mark Ramm (@markramm), Director of Product Management and Mark Emeis (@MarkEmeis), Engineering Manager walk you through the history of the product, how it works and what cluster platform creation and team management looks like in WKP. Learn how to create repeatable, auditable clusters managed with WKP and GitOps.
February 18, 2020
Financial Services and the State of DevOps - Industry Report Card
We look at the 2019 State of DevOps report which surveyed more than 3,000 DevOps practitioners across different industries. The focus of the report was on how an improvement in security measures can assist release velocity.
February 13, 2020
InfoQ on WKSctl and Cluster Configuration Management with GitOps
InfoQ, the magazine for professional software development, and Christian Melendez recently conducted an interview with the Weaveworks team on the WKSctl project. WKSctl is an open source tool that can be used to create and manage developer and production ready Kubernetes clusters from git.
February 06, 2020
The Promise of Machine Learning Operations
In a recent Weave Online User Group (WOUG), David Aronchick (@aronchick), Head of Open Source ML Strategy at Microsoft spoke on how you can bring machine learning to production with machine learning operations or MLOps.
January 30, 2020
AWS Container Days - Managing EKS at Scale with GitOps
Learn how to automate an entire machine learning pipeline with GitOps using GitHub Actions. The tutorial makes use of the Kubeflow Automated PipeLines Engine or KALE, introduces a novel way to version trained models and describes how to progressively deliver trained models.
January 28, 2020
Automating Kubeflow Pipelines with GitOps, GitHub Actions and Weave Flagger
Learn how to automate an entire machine learning pipeline with GitOps using GitHub Actions. The tutorial makes use of the Kubeflow Automated PipeLines Engine or KALE, introduces a novel way to version trained models and describes how to progressively deliver trained models.
January 14, 2020
Open Source Weave Ignite - The GitOps VM
At last year’s Kubecon in San Diego, Mark Emeis, Weaveworks Engineering Manager and open source contributor gave a talk on how Weave Ignite started, how it works and where you can use it in your development pipelines.
January 09, 2020
Manage Thousands of Clusters with GitOps and the Cluster API
At Weaveworks we have been living and breathing GitOps for a few years now. This year the Cloud Native community has really started to embrace and adopt GitOps for managing application workloads and services in Kubernetes. But what about managing the actual Kubernetes clusters themselves using GitOps?
December 18, 2019
Highlights from KubeCon US and Re:Invent 2019 + Live WKP Demo
Learn about the significant announcements from Weaveworks and AWS at Re:invent as well as Weaveworks and Intuit at Kubecon. We’ll also dive into the live WKP demo complete with video and commentary that we presented at the booth at both shows.