December 14, 2016
Container Management and the Rise of Docker
Software projects have historically struggled with problems through the entire development life cycle, from understanding the requirements to successfully deploying a new release. Agile development methods have helped solve the problem of...
November 30, 2016
Introducing Weave Scope 1.1 Now With Amazon ECS Views
Today, we are pleased to announce version 1.1 of Weave Scope.This version of Scope provides the ability to visualize and troubleshoot apps deployed to Amazon ECS clusters and also includes a number of bug fixes as well as several usability...
November 10, 2016
Securing Microservices in Kubernetes
IntroductionStarting with version 1.3, Kubernetes includes beta support for network policies that allow you to exert control over connections to your containers. For those unfamiliar with Kubernetes network policies they have the following...
November 07, 2016
Introducing Weave Scope 1.0 Now With Weave Net Views
Weave Scope is a zero-config, drop-in solution for visualizing, monitoring and controlling your Docker and Kubernetes cloud-native applications. Today, we’re releasing Weave Scope 1.0, which introduces a new Scope view to visualize and...
October 27, 2016
Whodunnit? Debugging and Diagnosing Microservices with Weave Cloud Beta
Debugging is about understanding the system. If software is behaving in some unexpected way, it means there is some piece of the system you don’t understand. Microservices, in particular, spread the system’s behaviour across many...
October 17, 2016
Weave Mesh in Prometheus Alertmanager
tl;dr: Weave Mesh, an open-source gossip and CRDT communications library, gave the Prometheus Alertmanager exactly what it needed to be reliable and highly-available.As a former SoundCloud engineer, I’ve had the privilege of using...
September 27, 2016
Run Weave Net with Kubernetes in Just One Line
Kubernetes, the Open Source container orchestration system from Google, has very specific network requirements. Historically people have used complex Salt and Bash scripts to configure networks to meet the requirements, but...
August 18, 2016
Introducing Weave Scope 0.17 With Table Mode and Enhanced Performance
Scope 0.17 introduces a Table Mode as an alternative to Scope’s classic graph view. Table mode offers higher information density, and is particularly useful when there are many nodes in the graph view. It’s like a top command, for visualizing your containers!
July 21, 2016
Sock Shop: A Microservices Demo Application
If you came by our booth at DockerCon in Seattle this year you’ll have seen “Sock Shop”, our microservices demo application.We originally designed it so we could demonstrate products like Weave Net and Scope – but additional...
June 29, 2016
Container networking with no overlay on AWS VPC!
Last week we announced a new option for users who run their container infrastructure entirely within Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Weave Net now allows you to connect Docker containers directly to AWS VPC...
June 20, 2016
DockerCon 2016: Weave Cloud and Weave Net 1.6
At DockerCon today we announced the public beta of Weave Cloud, a microservices console allowing developers and operations to quickly connect, visualize and monitor containers and microservices, regardless of the orchestrator....
May 16, 2016
How Weave Net Enables a Global Docker Cluster with OnApp
Please welcome Viktor Petersson and Bernino Lind from OnApp’s Federation. They describe how to network a Docker cluster across multiple data centers using Weave Net. Already in use by OnApp’s Federation, Weave Net plays a pivotal role in...
May 13, 2016
Scope 0.15: Search and Enhanced Kubernetes Visualization
Weave Scope is a zero-config, drop-in solution for visualizing, monitoring and controlling your Docker and Kubernetes cloud-native applications. Today, we’re releasing Weave Scope 0.15, focused on Search and enhanced Kubernetes...
April 27, 2016
Reboot-tolerance in Weave Net 1.5
Weave Net has always been pretty robust: instead of a central store of config data, everything is done peer-to-peer, and machine failures don’t hold up any other peers because our data structures use...
April 22, 2016
My first DC/OS app
There had been a lot of excitement in the community around the first open-source release of DC/OS.Here at Weaveworks, the team made sure Weave Scope 0.14 works very well on DC/OS..Among the variety of DC/OS tutorials, I haven’t yet found a...
April 19, 2016
Weave Scope 0.14 with Mesosphere DC/OS support, plugins and node metrics
Weaveworks is delighted to announce a new version of Weave Scope, the zero-configuration container visualization and monitoring solution, supporting DC/OS. We share the community’s goal of making running containers in production free and...
April 13, 2016
Announcing Weave Net 1.5: Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin for Kubernetes
Weave Net 1.5 will be released next week and includes a Container Network Interface (CNI) plug-in for Kubernetes 1.2 and other software that uses the CNI API. This means you can now use Weave Net as a native networking option for...
March 08, 2016
Use Docker Compose with the Weave Scope Service
Weave Scope is a low-configuration monitoring and diagnostic tool that passively observes your application, builds a realtime visualization of network traffic and draws the application topology as a graph.Kenny Bastani’s Spring Boot...
March 03, 2016
Docker Multicast Networking: Maximum Warp Speed
Weave Net is unique among Docker container networking solutions in that it supports multicast networking. In multicast, a sender can transmit data once and have it delivered to multiple receivers in a multicast group. It’s...
February 29, 2016
Weave Scope gets Docker Container Monitoring into Shape
Weave Scope is a zero-configuration, drop-in solution for interactive visualization, monitoring and controlling your Docker containers. Today, we’re releasing Weave Scope 0.13 with big improvements to performance and usability,...