Throwback Thursday: Configure notifications in Prometheus’ Alertmanager
Monitoring is crucial for any developer and on call engineer. But sorting through multiple notifications or missing critical information for a quick resolution is no fun. This blog post recaps a KubeCon lightning talk that demonstrates using labels in Prometheus alertmanager to only receive concise and easy to understand notifications.
Cloud Native Transformation - the past, present and future
At a recent Continuous Lifecycle conference in Mannheim, Alexis Richardson led the opening keynote: “Cloud Native Transformation - the past, present and future”. After a short history tour about the term and meaning of cloud native, he discussed how the cloud native revolution introduced new ways or operating infrastructure and applications. Watch the full talk.
Top 10 Best Blogs and Articles
Looking back on 2018, we recently summarized which blogs and articles were getting the most traffic. Read our top five blogs and the top five articles on our website.
KubeCon North America - leaving 2018 with a bang!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year - at least for us here at Weaveworks! KubeCon North America is usually the last event of the year for us and again it didn’t disappoint. With a massive attendance of 8,000 attendees, KubeCon has...
Best Practices for Designing and Building Containers for Kubernetes
Pods are fundamental to Kubernetes orchestration. Understanding how to design and optimize pods for Kubernetes is the first step towards creating a secure, stable, and efficient service in Kubernetes.
Never Lose Data with Persistent Volume Snapshots in Weave Scope 1.10
Weave Scope 1.10 just landed with many improvements. Kubernetes Persistent Volumes clone/snapshot operations are now supported. Scope got faster, bugs were fixed and its community is more active than it’s ever been.
Why is a PULL vs a PUSH pipeline important?
What is meant by a pull pipeline? How is it different from a push pipeline? This post compares pull vs push and how pull pipelines are key to GitOps best practices.
AWS and Kubernetes Networking Options and Trade-offs - Part 3
In this instalment of Kubernetes networking on AWS, Mark Ramm, goes through the pros, cons and tradeoffs between VPC native networking vs implementing the VPC CNI plugin.
AWS Networking Overview - Part 2
In part 2, learn how AWS implements Kubernetes networking and why you need to set up and configure Virtual Private Networks.
Celebrating an AWSome partnership
Weaveworks is celebrating joining the AWS container competency program. Our operational expertise running Kubernetes on AWS infrastructure enables us to make our customers successful with their Kubernetes plans - without the steep learning curve.
Introduction to Kubernetes Pod Networking - Part 1
In this three part series, we deep dive into the Kubernetes Pod networking options on Amazon, and provide some guidance on the trade-offs involved in selecting a particular Kubernetes Network technology for your cluster on Amazon.
fluxctl - Manage Kubernetes deployments via CLI
Control and automate deployments with $ fluxctl, a handy command line utility that talks to Weave Flux, our continuous delivery operator for Kubernetes.
How automotiveMastermind ramped up to 100 deployments per day
automotivemastermind looked at many different options for continuously delivering new features fast and reliably, before choosing Weave Cloud. Read the case study to find out how they dramatically increased their daily deployments.
How to Create GitOps Pipelines with GitHub Actions and Weave Cloud
GitHub Actions is a beta feature that allows you to automate tasks and create workflows. Find out how to create GitOps pipelines with GitHub Actions and Weave Cloud.
Weave Increased Our Flux Capacity
A lot has been happening in Weave Flux. Catch up on Flux’s development, new features and its community!
Optimizing Cluster Resources for Kubernetes Team Development
Find out how to organize your team for Kubernetes development. In this post we discuss: namespaces, RBAC, network policy and resource constraints and how to apply them to your development teams.
Hacktoberfest 2018 - it's a wrap
Hacktoberfest is a celebration of Open Source software and the difference you can make, even with a small contribution. As October is over now, we’re looking at what happened this month.
The Journey to Kubernetes
In our newest addition to the Kubernetes Library, find out how Kubernetes allows fast growing applications to scale quickly and why it's the market leader.
Case Study: How Qordoba increased deployment velocity by 60%
Learn how Qordoba increased deployment velocity by 60%, and went from 1 to 2 releases a week to 30 per day applying GitOps best practices with Weave Cloud.
Gearing up for all things GitOps at KubeCon
As the year winds down, we’re gearing up for a great KubeCon in Seattle. See what talks, demos and other activities we have lined up for the week.