April 07, 2020
Binge Worthy Webinars - Live and On-demand
Working remotely has its own set of challenges but it also has its perks. The time you are saving on getting ready in the morning and commuting to work, you can now spend on sipping a cup of coffee and watching one of our webinars on demand, connect with us at one of our live events or catch up with our online user group.
April 02, 2020
Ops Automation - GitOps in the Modern Enterprise
As modern enterprises move more towards Kubernetes and its ecosystem of cloud native tooling - all declarative constructs that can be managed as code - the processes for managing infrastructure are evolving that employ similar strategies previously reserved for application development. More on the blog.
March 31, 2020
Working With Istio: Track Your Services With Kiali
Istio is one of the most well-known service mesh projects. In this article, learn how to install the sample application that ships with Istio.
March 26, 2020
Cornelia Davis on Computing, and Catalysts for the Cloud Native Revolution
We recently conducted a short video interview to get to know Weaveworks CTO, Cornelia Davis, a bit better and understand her view on the industry, including what she’s been working on since joining a few months ago.
March 24, 2020
An Overview of Modern Ops in the Enterprise
In this article, we discuss Modern Operations, and what it looks like in an enterprise environment. We’ll also discuss the advantages of modernizing the technology stack and development practices in an enterprise. Finally, since everything good comes at a cost, we’re going to have a very candid and open conversation about the foundational elements you’ll need to put in place to ensure that your modernization strategy pays off.
March 24, 2020
Guide to Installing Spinnaker in Kubernetes Clusters
Learn how to have a production-grade Spinnaker which can be used to create your deployment pipelines for one or more Kubernetes clusters.
March 19, 2020
WKSctl: GitOps Management of Kubernetes Clusters with Jerry Jackson
Recently, Jerry Jackson, Software Engineer at Weaveworks, spoke about WKSctl and demonstrated how to create a cluster with this open source project at a Weave Online User Group (WOUG).
March 17, 2020
Weaveworks Takes Action to Offset Carbon Footprint
Weaveworks has partnered with Oblong Trees, a UK-based non-profit organization, whose mission is to help organizations offset their carbon emissions by planting trees all over the world. We feel it’s important that we reduce our carbon footprint and do more to combat climate change and help improve our planet.
March 12, 2020
Announcing Flagger 1.0
We're happy to announce the first release candidate of Flagger 1.0! Version 1.0 comes with the promise of a stable API. The canary resource is no longer alpha and the API has been extended to facilitate integrations with external monitoring systems and alerting platforms.
March 11, 2020
Bottlerocket with Fork, Clone, Run! - A Container Optimized OS with a GitOps model
Bottlerocket OS is a secure, fast and easy to manage, Linux-based operating system. With EKS as the cluster control plane, Bottlerocket instances join the cluster as workers. It also works out of the box with one of our GitOps models, Fork Clone Run.
March 04, 2020
Upcoming Webinars and Weave Online User Group Talks
Join us for an upcoming webinar with Pure Storage and find out how you can join and participate in two different talks with the Weave Online User Group (WOUG) this month.
March 04, 2020
Implementing FaaS in Kubernetes Using Kubeless
Learn about the Function as a Service (FaaS) is new architectural pattern and how to implement FaaS.
March 03, 2020
Fork, Clone, Run: A GitOps Model for Provisioning Multi-Machine HA Clusters with Rolling Upgrades
Preparing a Kubernetes cluster should be as easy as 1-2-3. With the GitOps operational model, fork, clone, run is a simple workflow that anyone can use to provision easy-to-manage Kubernetes clusters.
February 27, 2020
Enterprise Ready GitOps with the Weave Kubernetes Platform
Weaveworkers Mark Ramm (@markramm), Director of Product Management and Mark Emeis (@MarkEmeis), Engineering Manager walk you through the history of the product, how it works and what cluster platform creation and team management looks like in WKP. Learn how to create repeatable, auditable clusters managed with WKP and GitOps.
February 25, 2020
Calculating the True Cost of Moving to the Cloud - Part 2
In part 1 we broke down the key components of the move that need consideration. We also linked to described all of the public cloud cost calculators to help you estimate expenses. In this post, we’ll take a closer look and discuss why you need to distinguish between CapEx and OpEx expenses.
February 20, 2020
Four Pitfalls to Watch for when Migrating to the Cloud
Migrating an on-premises data center to cloud-based infrastructure is trickier than it seems. This post explains what the most common pitfalls are that can get in the way of achieving a successful cloud migration.
February 18, 2020
Financial Services and the State of DevOps - Industry Report Card
We look at the 2019 State of DevOps report which surveyed more than 3,000 DevOps practitioners across different industries. The focus of the report was on how an improvement in security measures can assist release velocity.
February 13, 2020
InfoQ on WKSctl and Cluster Configuration Management with GitOps
InfoQ, the magazine for professional software development, and Christian Melendez recently conducted an interview with the Weaveworks team on the WKSctl project. WKSctl is an open source tool that can be used to create and manage developer and production ready Kubernetes clusters from git.
February 11, 2020
20 Years of FOSDEM
FOSDEM, an annual conference to promote the widespread use of free and open source software, is now in its 20th year. Its scope is breathtaking: it takes over an entire university campus in Brussels for two days. Last week saw 871 events spread across 71 tracks.
February 06, 2020
The Promise of Machine Learning Operations
In a recent Weave Online User Group (WOUG), David Aronchick (@aronchick), Head of Open Source ML Strategy at Microsoft spoke on how you can bring machine learning to production with machine learning operations or MLOps.