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 with Grafana
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...
Docker Swarm Mode vs. Kubernetes: Key Facts You Need to Know
Docker Swarm Mode and Kubernetes are two of the most popular tools for container clustering and orchestration, despite their divergent philosophies and capabilities. Since both platforms are quite distinct, experience with one generally...
Testing Distributed Systems with Weave Scope’s Traffic Control Plugin
In this guest post please welcome the Kinvolk team who have recently developed a Weave Scope plugin called Traffic Control. The Traffic Control plugin can help you troubleshoot any network traffic slowdowns and bottlenecks that can occur...
Continuous Delivery with Weave Flux
Weave Cloud runs on Kubernetes. Kubernetes give us a suite of tools for managing a running system, but it does have boundaries. In particular, it doesn’t care (and shouldn’t care) where your container images come from. But we do — we have...
Container Management and the Rise of Docker
Software projects have historically struggled with problems through the entire development life cycle, from understanding the requirements to successfully deploying a new release. Agile development methods have helped solve the problem of...
AWS re:Invent Highlights: Weaveworks and Shippable Extend the Booth Challenge
AWS re:Invent was a whirlwind, and the Weaveworks team was thrilled to be a part of this gathering of cloud experts. A big thanks to all of the attendees who stopped by our booth to learn how Weaveworks simplifies Cloud Native deployment....
Accept the Challenge: Set up an Automated CI/CD Pipeline in 30 Minutes or Less!
Accept the Automation Challenge Weaveworks and Shippable want to keep the fun rolling from AWS re:Invent, so join us for The Automation Challenge! Here’s the gist: you race to set up fully automated deployments of the front-end component...
Introducing Weave Scope 1.1 Now With Amazon ECS Views
Today, we are pleased to announce version 1.1 of Weave Scope.This version of Scope provides the ability to visualize and troubleshoot apps deployed to Amazon ECS clusters and also includes a number of bug fixes as well as several usability...