Have You Met weaveDNS?
Today we’re releasing a preview of weaveDNS: a distributed DNS service for your weave network. As with DNS in general, the main use of weaveDNS is to be able to refer to things by name rather than address. For instance, a database...
Using Weave and Docker to Enable a Visi Spark cluster
Thank-you very much to Dave Pollak for offering this guest post, cross-posted and thus also available on his blog. You have probably come across Dave’s work before – he is among other things the founder of the Scale web framework...
Deploying Riak with Docker, Clocker and Weave
Another quick use case example, following on from the recent Clocker integration of Weave. In this deck, Cloudsoft’s founders show how the same combination of Clocker, Docker and Weave, can be used to manage Riak as a guest workload...
A Project Called Weave Comes to the Rescue
Here’s a great use case in which end user Alexandre Beslic deploys a distributed key/value store, Scalaris, using Docker+Weave. Many thanks for this Alexandre! Our favourite quote: “No doubt that this is a huge step forward for...
Why Do We Have a Script that Wraps the 'docker' Command?
We’ve heard this question quite a few times. Sometimes it’s a reaction to a problem, like “I already have this other script that runs the Docker command, so it’s inconvenient to have to run your script instead”. So I thought I...
Running a Weave Network on CoreOS
Introduction In this guide I will demonstrate how to provision Weave across a few CoreOS instances. In the last section I will show fully working example of automated provisioning by means of Cloud Config, which would allow you to get...
Walkthrough of Connecting Nginx, PHP and MySQL with Weave
Since other people have published quite sophisticated examples, I thought it was time for a really simple one. The scenario is: you want to run a web server in a container, out in the cloud, talking to a database in another container,...
Clocker Adds Network Support Using Weave
Andrew Kennedy from CloudSoft has been using Weave to improve networking in Clocker, their Docker cloud. Clocker is software for laying out a set of Docker containers in your infrastructure, and thereby wiring up...
Looks Like Weave Will Werve Our Needs . . .
We welcome our second guest blogger today. Hugh Esco describes how he turned to Docker and Weave for his hosted applications, sites and services… all while focusing on migrating not re-architecting existing services....
I just created a Cassandra cluster that spans 3 different network domains, by using 2 simple shell commands. How cool is that?
Today we welcome Yaron Rosenbaum as our first guest on the Weave blog, with a really cool use case! — alexis Over to you, Yaron.. I needed to create a Cassandra cluster that would span two different cloud providers. There are endless ways...
Hello Weave
Weave is an open source software project dedicated to simplifying container-based applications. We very much welcome contributions of all kinds – get in touch via Github or email please. The Weave project currently consists of a...