November 01, 2018
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.
October 30, 2018
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.
October 25, 2018
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.
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.