October 17, 2019
Webinar: GitOps & Best Practices for Cloud Native CI/CD
What does GitOps mean and how can you go about adopting it for your CI/CD needs? How do you empower change agents and champion best practices in your organization? Join Weaveworks and guests for a panel discussion on GitOps.
October 15, 2019
Why You Need a Multicloud Strategy?
The cloud is not just about purchasing computing power; it is a way of facilitating new, and more efficient business models. Often the first move is to create a "hybrid cloud" approach. Although this allows for organizations to have greater flexibility and more deployment options, it can be more expensive to maintain than multicloud.
October 07, 2019
Firekube - Fast and Secure Kubernetes Clusters Using Weave Ignite
Weave Firekube is a new open source Kubernetes distribution that enables secure clouds anywhere. Firekube uses Weave Ignite to run Kubernetes on Firecracker. It pulls everything from Git and boots up a secure cluster in 2.5 minutes.
October 07, 2019
Automate EKS Cluster Configuration with GitOps and Eksctl
Find out how you can use eksctl to launch Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters with a set of GitOps-managed applications and run production ready workloads in minutes.
October 03, 2019
WKSctl - A New OSS Kubernetes Manager using GitOps
Introducing WKSctl - a new open source tool for installing and managing Kubernetes using GitOps. Read this post to learn about its features, the reasons we created it, how it works, and how to get started.
October 02, 2019
Hacktoberfest 2019 - come and hack with us!
It’s October, which means Hacktoberfest time! Read about how Weaveworks is participating in this initiative to help bring new open source developers into the community.
October 01, 2019
Weave Kubernetes Platform with GitOps Policy Management
The new release of the Weave Kubernetes Platform (WKP) makes it easy to build and deploy clusters and all their components using GitOps. In this post we'll examine the main features and why they're beneficial, looking at cluster add-ons and automating policy so that we can determine who can do what across multiple teams.
September 26, 2019
Weave GitOps Manager Adds Policy Based Cluster Automation to Kubernetes
Introducing production ready clusters with GitOps. Instead of being held back by infrastructure bottlenecks, what if you can spin up a cluster when and where you need it with a choice of tools all managed with GitOps?
September 19, 2019
Weaveworks Named a Top Kubernetes Contributor
Weaveworks was recently named one of the top eight contributing companies to Kubernetes. Find out more about the CNCF’s Kubernetes Project Journey report.
September 17, 2019
An Introduction to Footloose: Containers that look like VMs
Footloose creates containers that look like virtual machines. Those containers run systemd as PID 1 and a ssh daemon that can be used to log into the container. Such "machines" behave very much like a VM, it's even possible to run dockerd in them.
September 12, 2019
How I Halved the Storage of Cortex
Find out how Bryan Boreham managed to cut the storage of Cortex’ time -series data in half by re-architecting how the data gets split into chunks.
September 10, 2019
6 Reasons to Start the Cloud Native Transformation
Download this whitepaper to learn what cloud native technology looks like and what you need in order to make the shift to cloud native.
September 05, 2019
Webinar - Automated Kubernetes Meets Scalable Bare Metal
Join our upcoming webinar in collaboration with Packet and learn how you can manage enterprise Kubernetes with GitOps on Packet’s automated bare metal servers.
September 03, 2019
Weave Ignite blazing a trail
Learn what's been happening with Weave Ignite since it was recently announced, including ways in which you can get started using the available resources and how you can join the community.
August 29, 2019
Running Highly Available Clusters with Kubeadm
Automated support for HA clusters is currently in beta in kubeadm v1.15. Lucas provided an overview of how High Availability works with kubeadm and also gave a demo on how to configure a Highly Available (HA) cluster with kubeadm.
August 27, 2019
Download These Production Ready Checklists for Kubernetes
What do you need for a Kubernetes cluster before you can call it “production ready”? How do you define “production ready” and what does a “highly available” cluster mean anyway?
August 22, 2019
Automating the Operation of Stateful Apps in Kubernetes with GitOps
Scale and velocity are the main drivers behind Kubernetes adoption. Kubernetes allows companies today to run thousands of cloud native applications, including many stateful applications like databases. Find out how GitOps and Portworx helps manage your stateful applications.
August 20, 2019
Introduction to EKS + EKSctl with Michael Hausenblas and Ilya Dmitrichenko
More than just a CLI for cluster creation, EKSctl can manage and configure an entire cluster with GitOps. Anyone using Kubernetes in production knows the importance of configuration management.
August 15, 2019
Flux Joins the CNCF Sandbox
Flux, the Kubernetes GitOps operator, has been accepted as a Sandbox project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Built to drive Weaveworks’ own deployment pipeline, Flux operates by updating Kubernetes manifests, applying them, and then committing the change to git.
August 13, 2019
Production Ready Kubernetes in a Day
Join us September 5th in London for a practical 1-day workshop and accelerate your journey to production ready Kubernetes by learning the practical techniques for reliably operating your software lifecycle using the GitOps pattern.