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October 23, 2018

Case study: Soho House runs Kubernetes with 100% confidence

Learn how a well established private members club replatformed their infrastructure to a microservices architecture. Thanks to Weave Cloud, they decreased their operations time by 75% and increased confidence in running their Kubernetes clusters.

October 16, 2018

What CICD tool should I use?

Discover what components make up an automated pipeline, the features you need to consider and how to incorporate GitOps when evaluating CICD tools. Find out more today from Weaveworks.

October 11, 2018

eksctl makes it easy to run Istio on EKS

Follow a tutorial to get started with Istio on AWS' EKS with eksctl and also learn what new features made it into this release.

October 09, 2018

DevSecOps meets GitOps with Twistlock and Weaveworks

Learn how we’ve teamed up with our security partner Twistlock to show you how you can increase reliability and velocity through implementing a GitOps model while keeping an eye on vulnerabilities and compliance through DevSecOps best practices.

October 04, 2018

Five Key Cloud Technologies for Kubernetes

Five key open source projects that help complete the Kubernetes feature set are discussed in this post: Prometheus, Istio, Helm, Weave Flux, and OpenFaaS.

October 01, 2018

Weave Scope and Flux to participate in Hacktoberfest

In this post, Daniel, our community manager at Weaveworks explains how Weaveworks (Flux and Scope teams included) is participating in the upcoming Hacktoberfest and why it’s such a great way to get started in Open Source development.

September 28, 2018

Kubernetes Workload Promotion in GitOps CD Pipelines

Read about our new Weave Cloud feature that lets you promote workloads between clusters. Find out how this can help your team accelerate the delivery of features to Kubernetes.

September 27, 2018

Tools for App Development on Kubernetes - Ksync

Learn how Ksync can help speed up app development on Kubernetes by providing a direct link from your local environment to a running cluster.

September 19, 2018

Weaveworks Cortex - the newest member of the CNCF Sandbox

Cortex, our scalable Prometheus monitoring system, has been accepted as a Sandbox project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Cortex is an open source project that we created to provide storage of Prometheus metrics for Weave Cloud. It's used by teams that are running large Prometheus environments, providing metrics for complex Kubernetes environments.

September 18, 2018

Best tools for Debugging Distributed Applications

While the initial planning and architecture behind debugging a distributed application can take time, there's a growing number of tools available to help you pin down the problem and find solutions. In this post, we looked at the different approaches available.

September 13, 2018

Your Guide to a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

How do you know when you are production ready? What does it even mean to be production ready? Download this whitepaper and find out what production ready means, the cultural changes you need to make on your team, as well as the most important requirements to consider when using and taking advantage of Kubernetes in production.

September 11, 2018

Kubernetes Storage FAQ: How to Configure Storage for a Bare Metal Kubernetes Cluster

Managing your application state can be tricky! Learn how to easily manage storage on bare metal Kubernetes installations

September 04, 2018

Software Engineering Daily - GitOps Key Takeaways

Read an excerpt of the podcast from Alexis Richardson’s interview on Software Engineering Daily. Alexis discusses how GitOps works, and explains how it compares to other methods for continuous delivery.

August 30, 2018

The Official GitOps FAQ

The GitOps FAQ is a list of the most frequently asked questions and their answers around the practice of deploying and updating cloud native applications.

August 28, 2018

Labels in Prometheus alerts: think twice before using them

As developers, we hear a lot about the importance of monitoring and alerts. But without proper notification, we might spend too much time trying to understand what really is going on. This blog post will give you an overview of common caveats of using labels in Prometheus alerts and demonstrate some technics how to get concise and easy to understand notifications.

August 27, 2018

Weave Cloud Product Updates and Announcements

Curious about what’s new in Weave Cloud? Learn about new features, enhancements and bug fixes in this convenient list.

August 23, 2018

How to Correctly Handle DB Schemas During Kubernetes Rollouts

You decided to migrate to Kubernetes, but you are unsure how to safely roll out your microservice’s replicas, while also coordinating changes to the schema of the underlying database? This how to article will walk you through considerations and best practices.

August 21, 2018

What Is GitOps

What is Gitops? If you've ever wondered what GitOps actually is, this article is for you. Get a concise definition of GitOps with comparisons and examples.

August 16, 2018

Racy conntrack and DNS lookup timeouts

Recently there were many Kubernetes user bug reports about DNS lookups from Pods sometimes taking 5 or even more seconds. In this blog post I will explain the root causes for such delays, discuss some mitigations and present some kernel fixes.

August 13, 2018

Managing Helm Deployment and Releases with GitOps

Learn all about GitOps, Helm, & Helm deployments, as well as setting up centric CICD pipelines in this step-by-step guide.

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