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July 20, 2017

Docker Linux Distributions that work with Kubernetes: LinuxKit

Watch Justin Cormack speak about the ins and outs of Linuxkit. Linuxkit provides a Docker-native experience in IT infrastructures that include a variety of OS’s which are not bundled with a native version of Linux...

July 18, 2017

Security and Encryption in Weave Net

Securing a network with full end-to-end encryption can be complicated and overlay networks add another level of difficulty. However, with Weave Net we’ve worked very hard to simplify the set-up process and make managing the whole thing as straightforward as possible.

July 12, 2017

Container Security with Dan Walsh

There are several factors to consider when securing containerized applications. Where containers are deployed, how they are isolated and which capabilities to disable are important steps to take to ensure that your dockerized applications are secure.

July 10, 2017

Visualizing Cloud Foundry with Weave Scope

Stev Witzel (Pivotal) will cover how to Visualize Cloud Foundry with Weave Scope Stev will demo an experimental BOSH release for Weave Scope that helps reveal Cloud Foundry's topology and all applications running on top of the platform.

July 07, 2017

Demystifying Production-Ready Apps on Kubernetes with Carter Morgan

The Weave Online User Group talk given by Carter Morgan defines of what a "production-ready" cloud application looks like.

June 27, 2017

Making billions with Kubernetes and Weave Cloud: Deploying your app for the first time

The world has been patiently waiting for the launch of Stringly™, a platform for distributing highly optimized strings that is sure to disrupt the global string market. The VC checks have cleared and its time to give the people what they...

June 26, 2017

Weave Net 2.0 Released: Peer Discovery, Docker Swarm plugin & CLI changes

Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of Weave Net 2.0, which features a peer discovery feature via Weave Cloud, a Docker Swarm plugin, and several changes to Weave Net’s CLI and internals.

June 22, 2017

Visualizing resource utilization with Scope

The Weave Scope UI provides a neat way of visualizing the real-time state of your application as a graph of interconnected nodes. While good for answering structural questions about your system, this view falls short when trying to...

June 05, 2017

Architecture models for Continuous Delivery with Kubernetes

Luke Marsden explores different architecture models for achieving continuous delivery with Kubernetes. He will be discussing best practices such as establishing a single source of truth and utilizing efficient rollbacks without requiring new code changes to be pushed.

May 31, 2017

Extending Weave Scope With Custom Plugins

We show the essential information needed to create a plugin written in Go and point you to the resources you’ll need to do it yourself. The result should be a working plugin that you’ve built yourself.

May 30, 2017

Linux Namespaces and Go Don't Mix

Martynas Pumputis explains how a Weave Net bug uncovered considerable limitations of Go programming language runtime.

May 25, 2017

Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Integration: What's the Difference?

Continuous delivery vs. continuous integration vs. continuous deployment. Do you know what the differences are? Our blog clears it up for you.

May 24, 2017

Understand Istio with Weave Cloud

In the Weave Cloud and Istio tutorial, we show you how to configure Istio for microservices and how to use Weave Cloud to explore and monitor the traffic flow between the microservices as it runs in the service mesh.

May 23, 2017

The Long Tail: Tools to Investigate High Long Tail Latency

Figuring out what's causing slow requests or ops can be tricky. Tom Wilkie shares the tools he used to investigate high long tail latency.

May 19, 2017

Adding a Service to Weave Cloud and Other Best Practices

Learn how to add a service to Weave Cloud – from naming and organization to security and monitoring, Tom Wilkie shares best practices and lessons learned.

May 18, 2017

Recap: High-performance Linux Monitoring with eBPF

Recap of Alfonso Acosta’s talk High-performance Linux Monitoring with eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter). Learn how it’s used in Weave Scope.

May 16, 2017

Kubernetes Rolling Upgrades One by One

Have a semi-stateful service running on Kubernetes and want to do rolling upgrades? Tom Wilkie outlines how to make deployments upgrade one by one.

May 13, 2017

The RED Method: key metrics for microservices architecture

Tom Wilkie shares Weaveworks monitoring philosophy and the three most important metrics to use in your microservices architecture.

May 11, 2017

Weave-NPC: Container firewalls in Go

Weave Network Policy Controller is an implementation of the Kubernetes Network Policy. Read on to learn about container firewalls in Go.

May 08, 2017

Scope Illuminates Cloud Foundry

In a recent hack day at Pivotal, the team sought new approaches to visualize the Cloud Foundry platform. Cloud Foundry has two tools for this purpose: BOSH – with its CLI of logs, stats and commands reporting the health of VMs running...

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