August 07, 2017
GitOps - Operations by Pull Request
Alexis Richardson is defining “GitOps” as a methodology for developer tooling to drive operations. This post discussed the use of declarative tools and best practices of configurations being code and therefore should be versions controlled.
July 25, 2017
How to Supercharge Your Kubernetes Cluster with Rancher & Weave Cloud
This tutorial shows you how to deploy and manage Kubernetes with Rancher. You will then use Weave Cloud to complete the development lifecycle, and Deploy, Explore and Monitor your app as it runs in Kubernetes.
July 20, 2017
Docker Linux Distributions that work with Kubernetes: LinuxKit
Watch Justin Cormack speak about the ins and outs of Linuxkit. Linuxkit provides a Docker-native experience in IT infrastructures that include a variety of OS’s which are not bundled with a native version of Linux...
July 07, 2017
Demystifying Production-Ready Apps on Kubernetes with Carter Morgan
The Weave Online User Group talk given by Carter Morgan defines of what a "production-ready" cloud application looks like.
June 27, 2017
Making billions with Kubernetes and Weave Cloud: Deploying your app for the first time
The world has been patiently waiting for the launch of Stringly™, a platform for distributing highly optimized strings that is sure to disrupt the global string market. The VC checks have cleared and its time to give the people what they...
June 05, 2017
Architecture models for Continuous Delivery with Kubernetes
Luke Marsden explores different architecture models for achieving continuous delivery with Kubernetes. He will be discussing best practices such as establishing a single source of truth and utilizing efficient rollbacks without requiring new code changes to be pushed.
May 19, 2017
Adding a Service to Weave Cloud and Other Best Practices
Learn how to add a service to Weave Cloud – from naming and organization to security and monitoring, Tom Wilkie shares best practices and lessons learned.
May 16, 2017
Kubernetes Rolling Upgrades One by One
Have a semi-stateful service running on Kubernetes and want to do rolling upgrades? Tom Wilkie outlines how to make deployments upgrade one by one.
May 11, 2017
Weave-NPC: Container firewalls in Go
Weave Network Policy Controller is an implementation of the Kubernetes Network Policy. Read on to learn about container firewalls in Go.
April 14, 2017
Scalable Microservices with gRPC, Kubernetes, and Docker
On March 14, the monthly Weave User Group covered the topic “Scalable Microservices with gRPC, Kubernetes, and Docker.”Sandeep Dinesh, Developer Advocate from Google gave an overview of Kubernetes and gRPC with a demo. In the second part...
April 13, 2017
Cloud Native Matters - Alexis Richardson’s CNC + KubeCon 2017 Talk
At the end of March, our CEO and co-founder Alexis Richardson gave a keynote at CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 on what cloud native is, and why cloud native matters.In the beginningCloud native began 10 years ago with Netflix and...
April 06, 2017
KubeCon Europe 2017: A Kubernetes Community Meeting
That’s a wrap, KubeCon Europe 2017Another successful CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe is in the books, and we want to extend a huge thanks to everyone who visited our booth and attended our talks. We love getting the chance to chat with...
March 14, 2017
Weave Cloud and The Future of K8s: A Simplified Kubernetes Installation
Since announcing kubeadm in September as a simplified way to install Kubernetes, SIG-cluster-lifecycle has made a number of updates to the tool. The goal remains the same: to make it the standard for Kubernetes installation. Lucas...
March 13, 2017
Of Metrics and Middleware
The topic of how the services in Weave Cloud are instrumented came up in two discussions this week, so I thought I’d write a short blog post explaining all the moving parts.Instrumenting RequestsFor all services in Weave Cloud, we measure...
March 08, 2017
Log Aggregation for Kubernetes with Loggly
I consider log aggregation to be one of “pillars” of observability – a crucial service that every developer needs when working with distributed apps / microservices / cloud natives. In this post I’ll explain how we uses Loggly to aggregate...
March 07, 2017
Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi: Challenges & Advantages
Lucas Käldström is a upper secondary school student from Finland. He has recently joined Weaveworks as a contractor. By tinkering with Raspberry Pis, he discovered Kubernetes, started kubernetes-on-arm, and then merged ARM support into...
March 06, 2017
Prometheus, ConfigMaps and Continuous Deployment
This is the story of how we manage our Prometheus config to avoid restarting Prometheus too often, losing all our history. It is a short, up to date write up of a talk I gave at the first London Prometheus meetup. In the beginning there...
March 03, 2017
Phase 1: SOCKS; Phase 2: ?; Phase 3: Profit
Editor’s note: this post has nothing to do with the Sock Shop, which is our microservices sample application. Rather, it’s about finding a modern use for the 1990s SOCKS proxy. Intrigued? Read on… The challenge: you’ve built and deployed...
March 03, 2017
Weave Cloud Outage 28th Feb Post-Mortem
Weave Cloud is our service for deploying, exploring, and monitoring microservice-based applications. At 17:37 GMT on 28th Feb, Weave Cloud suffered an outage for over 4 hours. The expectation of availablilty on a service like Weave Cloud...
March 02, 2017
Kubernetes for Beginner's
In this Kubernetes tutorial for beginners, you will learn the essentials of Kubernetes in one hour.