November 10, 2020
Part 2 - 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.
November 04, 2020
GitOps Days 2020 - the EMEA edition (Nov 12 & 13)
Join us on November 12 & 13 for GitOps Days EMEA. GitOps Days is packed with keynotes, workshops, and technical deep dives for newcomers and experienced practitioners. The talks cover GitOps for Data Science, Security, MLOps, Helm, and more - register today for free.
November 03, 2020
The Road to Flux v2 - November update
Flux v2 October updates include: new naming convention, details about the 0.2.0 release, details about our focus of governance and community within the Flux project, including some excellent new resources to read, watch and listen too. Read the blog for more information.
October 29, 2020
Case Study: Fidelity Investments Adopts GitOps Automation for Multicloud Kubernetes
Fidelity investments teamed up with AWS and Weaveworks to implement secure and compliant Kubernetes platforms. Learn more in the case study.
October 27, 2020
Weaveworks Welcomes Experienced Open Source Executive, Paul Fremantle
We are pleased to announce that Paul Fremantle is joining the Weaveworks team as VP, Technical Product Strategy. Find out why Paul decided to join Weaveworks.
October 22, 2020
Meet the CRE Team Blog Series - Paul Carlton
This is the second post in our blog series about the Weaveworks CRE team. As experts in both cloud native technologies and the GitOps methodology, they work as embedded team members in tandem with your team to deliver solid Kubernetes solutions and platforms. This week we introduce you to Paul Carlton.
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.