October 20, 2020
Introducing EKS support in Cluster API
In this post we introduce the newly released EKS functionality in the Cluster API Provider for AWS (CAPA) and then walk you through the creation of your first EKS cluster. Finally we’ll cover the functionality you can expect to be added to future releases of CAPA.
October 15, 2020
DevOps and the Visibility of Work in the Value Stream
In this age of faster, and leaner software delivery, managing teams and more importantly managing tasks and workflows, both within teams and across teams, is more relevant than ever. Cornelia Davis, CTO Weaveworks and Dominica DeGrandis, director of Digital Transformation at Tasktop offers some practical advice on evaluating IT workflows in the enterprise and how to manage technical debt and other invisible work.
October 13, 2020
Part 1 - Distributed Systems, Disaster Recovery and GitOps
By leveraging GitOps and a modern cloud-native-friendly data platform, it has become possible for even the smallest organizations to have real and reliable disaster recovery plans.
October 06, 2020
Living on the Edge - How Screenly Monitors Edge IoT Devices with Prometheus
In this guest post Viktor Petersson discusses how Screenly uses Prometheus to monitor their infrastructure. Over the years, they found Prometheus to be extremely versatile, and then expanded Prometheus to include business intelligence metrics.
October 01, 2020
The Road to Flux v2 - October update
There has been a lot of new features and improvements added to Flux v2 in September, read this blog to learn more, including our ongoing plans for Flux v1 and the GitOps Toolkit reaching a big milestone.
September 29, 2020
Podcast: Camille Fournier on Building Internal K8S Platforms
In this latest episode of the “Art of Modern Ops” Camille Fournier, Managing Director at Two Sigma and Cornelia Davis, CTO at Weaveworks discuss what it takes to build an internal platform within your organization.
September 24, 2020
A Tale of Tail Latencies
This is a tale with many twists and turns, a tale of observation, analysis and optimisation, of elation and disappointment. When Bryan comes across an issue with high disk consumption, things take a surprising turn into the realm of extreme tail latencies and he stops at nothing to solve the mystery.
September 22, 2020
Case study: Tidepool streamlines and secures cluster lifecycle with GitOps
Read this case study to discover how a nonprofit organization improving diabetes data migrated to Kubernetes and implemented GitOps to streamline and secure their workflows so that they could get into production faster.
September 17, 2020
Z System in the Age of DevOps: When Eventual Consistency is Not an Option
Z is a modern system providing in many ways the very first cloud. The system itself builds in scalability, reliability and the security needed by large enterprises who must deal with high transaction throughput with guaranteed reliability. Learn how it adapted DevOps and cloud native best practices.
September 15, 2020
Realize the full value of Kubernetes on AWS with GitOps
Teams can run up against operational challenges when managing cloud native infrastructure and applications that GitOps can help with. GitOps allows teams to confidently and securely deploy changes to Kubernetes without being experts in container orchestration. Download the eBooks to learn more.
September 09, 2020
Preventing malicious use of Weave Scope
It was reported this week that TeamTNT hackers are using Weave Scope to aid their intrusions. As Weave Scope is an administration tool it has powerful capabilities making it important for any installation to be secured. We’re going to cover both how Scope is used and how you can mitigate this risk by securing it in any Kubernetes installation.
September 09, 2020
How to Deploy a React App to a Kubernetes Cluster
Kubernetes has more advanced deployment features such as blue-green and canary deployments. Kubernetes easily handles peak traffic.
September 08, 2020
Case study: DataScan improves security and costs with Weave Kubernetes Platform
How did DataScan, a financial services company, ensure that the uptime of their systems was near 100%, their customer data was kept secure and they were able to reduce infrastructure costs? The Weave Kubernetes Platform provides a secure and consistent platform on-premise and in the cloud alongside a cost effective management plan.
September 03, 2020
The Road to Flux v2 - September update
This is the first blog post in a series which accompanies the development of the GitOps Toolkit on the road to delivering Flux v2 and more. We want to highlight what has been developed in the past weeks, who has contributed and what you can look forward to. And if you are curious, how to try it out for yourself.
August 31, 2020
Automatic and secure Kubernetes updates with Bottlerocket OS
AWS Bottlerocket OS is now fully compatible with the WKP (Weave Kubernetes Platform), our production ready platform with GitOps as the underlying architecture and developer experience that simplifies cluster configuration and management across your organization.
August 27, 2020
Conformant Kubernetes at Enterprise Scale with WKP
How do you maintain and build complete platforms without having to resort to manual configuration or bespoke scripting? Read how WKP's open and Kubernetes certified architecture helps build consistent platforms anywhere.
August 25, 2020
Separating CI from CD with GitOps and Other Insights from Kubecon EU
Originally scheduled to be held in Amsterdam in March of this year, Kubecon EU was postponed to August and eventually switched from an in-person event to a virtual one. In this post, Cornelia Davis provides the key takeaways from AWS Container Days held at Kubecon EU this year.
August 19, 2020
Podcast: Buzzword Bingo - What do you really need for Kubernetes?
It seems like every day there is a new OSS project that promises to solve all the things. In this episode, Cornelia Davis, CTO at Weaveworks and Kelsey Hightower, Developer Advocate at Google cut through the hype with the essential patterns needed to run Kubernetes in production.
August 13, 2020
GitOps is about to get better with Flux v2
We are proud to announce GitOps with Flux v2 and GitOps Toolkit. Flux v2 addresses many user requests such as support for synching multiple git repos and provides a smoother "Day 2"experience. The GitOps Toolkit is a set of core GitOps operators that work in concert, and Flux v2 is an off-the-shelf composition of those components that gives you equivalent capabilities to the original Flux.
August 11, 2020
Case Study: National Australia Bank Decreases Operational Overhead with GitOps
National Australia Bank or NAB is Australia’s largest business bank serving 9,000,000 customers at more than 900 locations around the world. Read the case study on how Weaveworks helped NAB decrease operational overhead and simplify containerization pipelines on EKS.