Provisioning and Lifecycle of a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster
At Weaveworks we run Weave Cloud (our monitoring & visualization service for Cloud Native applications) on a Kubernetes cluster in AWS. In this post I’ll discuss the methods we use to provision and operate the cluster through the...
5 Reasons to Choose Weave
Since the project started in 2014, Weave Net has grown in capability and maturity, added features and improved performance.Weave Net is evolving into a powerful Cloud Native Networking Toolkit. Much more than a virtual network for Docker...
Kubernetes Raspberry Pi Cluster: Possible with Weave Net
Sometimes life takes a strange turn. Me writing this blog post for example. Two years ago I was looking for a new platform for building e-services for a former employer. The current solution was nothing more than a couple of web servers....
Fast and Secure Container Networking with Weave Net's Fast Datapath
Weave Net 1.2 introduced a high performance overlay network for containers called fast datapath (fastdp). Despite advantages, the overlay had a limitation that it did not have any built-in mechanism for encrypting dataplane packets, so by...
Alexis Richardson is Keynote Speaker at CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe
The Weaveworks team is heading to KubeCon Europe, and we’ve got a lot to talk about! From a keynote by our CEO Alexis Richardson, to talks, breakouts, and booth demos, here’s a glimpse of what we have in store for the event in Berlin:...
Weave Net 1.9 Released: Encrypted Fast Datapath & ARM
Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of Weave Net 1.9, which features faster, more secure networking and support for ARM builds.Fast, Secure NetworkingWeave Net has several options for configuring the network: ‘fast datapath’ – the...
Using Weave Net for NetworkPolicy in Kubernetes
FOSDEM is a free conference for Open Source developers, held each year in Brussels. In the Lightning Talk stream I gave a whistle-stop tour of the motivation, definition and implementation of Kubernetes NetworkPolicy using Weave Net. In...
Troubleshooting Containers in Kubernetes With Weave Scope & Weave Cloud
Weave Scope is an open-source container visualization and troubleshooting project from Weaveworks that gives you a top-down view into your application and infrastructure, showing the dependencies and communication links between containers....
What is Cloud Native and why should I care
Alexis Richardson, founder and CEO of Weaveworks, did a recent talk at Software Circus about “What Cloud Native is and why should I care.”Cloud Native is open source Cloud computing for applications, a trusted tool kit for modern...
Cloud-Native Networking with Christopher Liljenstolpe of Tigera
Last week, Christopher Liljenstolpe of Tigera and I gave a high-level overview of Cloud-Native Networking via webinar. It seemed well-received. We had a good set of questions at the end. If you’re interested check out the video...
Cloud Provider Options for a Container-Friendly Environment
The advent Docker and containers, has simplified packaging, deploying and supporting applications. However, with this advancement come challenges, as you also need a robust environment in which to deploy the containers. And that requires...
Dashboards as Code
If you use Prometheus, then you probably use Grafana. At Weave, we have Grafana dashboards for all of our microservices. When we want to understand our system, our Grafana dashboards are the first things we look at. To make the most out of...
Write your first Weave Scope Plugin
Version 0.14 of Weave Scope came with an exciting new feature: plugins. If you’re visualizing and monitoring your microservices with Weave Scope, plugins provide a way to enhance and enrich the view with your own custom data. This data...
Using Weave to Network Containerized Microservices on Amazon ECS
Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a Docker container management service, part of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. By using Weave Net, a software-defined networking solution, you can deploy containers onto ECS more easily, without...
11 Essential Docker Tools for Devs (Updated for 2017)
The state of the Docker ecosystem, as with any new and popular project, is frequently in flux, with new tools and software rising and falling in popularity. If you’re a developer who regularly works with Docker, you continually need to...
Ansible and Weave step by step
We received permission from Alberto Garcia Lamela to post this guest blog post. The original post here.This is a pragmatic guide to Ansible for beginners. This use case will guide you on how to set up a cross-cloud software defined network...
Weaveworks 2017 Predictions: Containers, Cloud and the Enterprise
Weaveworks CEO, Alexis Richardson, recently published his 2017 container predictions in an article on VMblog. Containers, Cloud and the Enterprise In times of global uncertainty, the world of cloud infrastructure has been reassuringly...
Virtual Machines vs. Containers: Virtual Solutions for Two Different Problems
Virtualization: What is it and why do we need it? For enterprises with hundreds or thousands of applications all supporting critical business functions, maintaining an environment where applications run successfully and minimizing the...
Cloud Native: software you can trust
Weaveworks CEO, Alexis Richardson and chairman of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation TOC, wrote an article for CNCF on the cloud native community during CloudNativeCon.We are a young organisation, but we are ambitious. Our goal is to...
Weaveworks at AWS re:Invent 2016: Operations Management with Amazon ECS
In case you missed this year’s AWS re:Invent, we wanted to share another of our favorite sessions from the show. In a joint talk with Paul Maddox from AWS, our software engineer Alfonso Acosta walked through best practices for deploying...