April 08, 2016
Service routing turns containers into microservices
Flux is a new project from Weaveworks that gives you service routing for Docker containers. What is service routing? It’s a layer on top of the network that means your application code can connect to services rather than individual...
March 10, 2016
An important Cloud Native Computing Foundation milestone
Today the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) made three important announcements at Kubecon London. The first was the formation of the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), which performs a key role in determining which open...
March 08, 2016
Use Docker Compose with the Weave Scope Service
Weave Scope is a low-configuration monitoring and diagnostic tool that passively observes your application, builds a realtime visualization of network traffic and draws the application topology as a graph.Kenny Bastani’s Spring Boot...
March 03, 2016
Docker Multicast Networking: Maximum Warp Speed
Weave Net is unique among Docker container networking solutions in that it supports multicast networking. In multicast, a sender can transmit data once and have it delivered to multiple receivers in a multicast group. It’s...
February 29, 2016
Weave Scope gets Docker Container Monitoring into Shape
Weave Scope is a zero-configuration, drop-in solution for interactive visualization, monitoring and controlling your Docker containers. Today, we’re releasing Weave Scope 0.13 with big improvements to performance and usability,...
February 20, 2016
Weave unaffected by GNU C library vulnerability CVE 2015-7547
This week a serious vulnerability (CVE 2015-7547) was announced in the GNU C library installed on most popular Linux systems, which could enable a remote code execution attack. Software that makes use of the glibc DNS resolver...
February 17, 2016
We have excellent talks and demos for you at Kubecon London
KubeCon 2016 promises to be one of the best tech events this year. We’ll be there! And we have some amazing talks for you to see – and people for you to meet. Friends of Weaveworks get a discount – at the end of this post, find out...
February 05, 2016
Weaveworks' Alexis Richardson elected to CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) completed its elections for the Technical Oversight Committee last week. I’m delighted that Weaveworks co-founder and CEO Alexis Richardson was elected to the TOC, along with other leaders in...
February 02, 2016
CNI for Docker Containers, with Weave & Calico
As fate would have it, a few developers from Calico and Weaveworks ran into each other at a local bar, just down from both their offices. As the beer started to flow, so did the conversation… To the fascinating subject of how to enable any...
January 29, 2016
Scope 0.12: contextual monitoring for Docker
Weave Scope is a zero-config, drop-in solution for visualizing, monitoring and controlling your Docker containers in your cloud-native application. Scope allows you intuitively understand your microservices based application...
January 26, 2016
Introducing Coed:Code - an event for diversity in systems programming
We are putting on an event which we hope will help improve diversity in systems programming. And we hope that it will be fun. All are welcome and it is free. The event is called Coed:Code and it is on Wednesday 3rd February at...
January 07, 2016
Scale Test: Clustering 2,000 Docker Containers with Weave and DCHQ
Today’s guest blog is from the DCHQ team, who use Weave Net to network Docker containers in their Deployment Automation and Lifecycle Management platform. This is the second of a two part blog series that discusses the...
December 17, 2015
Docker Networking with No External Cluster Store: Announcing Weave 1.4 Plugin
All other Docker networking plugins, including Docker’s own “Overlay” driver, require that you set up Docker with a cluster store – a central database like Consul or Zookeeper – before you can use them. As well...
December 16, 2015
How Weave built a cloud deployment for Scope using Kubernetes
This was originally posted on the Kubernetes blog. Earlier this year at Weaveworks we launched Weave Scope, an open source solution for visualization and monitoring of containerised apps and services. Recently we released a hosted Scope...
December 15, 2015
Weave Scope 0.11 adds terminals for your Docker containers
Weave Scope is a zero-config, drop-in solution for mapping and monitoring your Docker containers, and the easiest way to visualize your cloud-native application. Today, we’re releasing Weave Scope 0.11 with the added ability to get...
November 30, 2015
Automating Microsoft Azure Docker Deployment with Weave Net
This is a guest post by Richard Lander, a Senior Software Developer at Tribridge. He runs production Dockerized workloads on Microsoft Azure using Weave Net, and has written this post to demonstrate the techniques he...
November 16, 2015
Scale test: Running 10,000 Docker Containers on Weave
Welcoming today’s guest blog from the DCHQ team, who use Weave Net to provide the Docker container network for their Deployment Automation and Lifecycle Management platform:Using DCHQ and Weave to automate Docker at...
November 16, 2015
Weave Scope gets your Docker containers under control
Weave Scope is a zero-config, drop-in solution for mapping and monitoring your Docker containers, and the easiest way to visualize your cloud-native application. Weave Scope 0.10 is out today and introduces some exciting new features:...
November 13, 2015
Weave Networking Performance with the New Fast Data Path
Weave Net 1.2 delivers performance close to standard networking on today’s common x86 servers thanks to “fast data path”, a feature we previewed a few months ago. We’ll be doing additional testing on servers with newer 10G network...
November 06, 2015
Weave Discovery and Docker Swarm
As we previously explained Weave Discovery allows Weave Routers to find each other automatically, solving the initial configuration problem when setting up your overlay container network.In this article we will examine how Weave Discovery...