January 17, 2019
Kubernetes Pod Resource Limitations and Quality of Service
Keep your workloads running efficiently in Kubernetes by correctly setting the request and limits on your deployments as well as the appropriate Quality of Service classes for your pods.
January 15, 2019
Managing Secrets in Kubernetes
Learn how to separate code from configuration in Kubernetes and Kubernetes secrets management tips in this post.
January 10, 2019
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.
January 08, 2019
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.
December 31, 2018
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.
December 20, 2018
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...
December 11, 2018
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.
December 06, 2018
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.
December 04, 2018
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.
November 29, 2018
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.
November 28, 2018
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.
November 27, 2018
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.
November 26, 2018
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.
November 21, 2018
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.
November 19, 2018
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.
November 15, 2018
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.
November 13, 2018
Weave Increased Our Flux Capacity
A lot has been happening in Weave Flux. Catch up on Flux’s development, new features and its community!
November 09, 2018
Optimizing Kubernetes Resource Limits for Team Development
Find out how to optimize your development team. Learn about namespaces in Kubernetes, RBAC, Kubernetes resource limits, and more with Weave.Works.
November 08, 2018
Optimizing Kubernetes Cluster Resource Limits
Find out how to organize your team for Kubernetes development. In this post we discuss: namespaces in Kubernetes, RBAC, network policy, Kubernetes resource limits and how to apply them to your development teams.
November 06, 2018
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.