September 21, 2016
Prometheus and Kubernetes: Monitoring Your Applications
In this post we discuss how to configure Prometheus to monitor your Kubernetes applications and services, and some best practices that we have developed around instrumenting your applications in a consistent fashion based on our experience...
September 13, 2016
Prometheus and Kubernetes: Deploying
In this post I discuss the various options and tradeoffs we encountered at Weaveworks when deploying Prometheus with Kubernetes to monitor Weave Cloud. This is the second post in our series on Prometheus and Kubernetes, the first being...
September 06, 2016
Prometheus and Kubernetes: A Perfect Match
At the inaugural Prometheus London meetup, I gave a talk about how Weaveworks uses Prometheus to monitor Weave Cloud, which runs on a Kubernetes cluster in AWS. In this series of blog posts I’ll expand on some of the practices we’ve...
August 25, 2016
Welcome Luke Marsden as Head of DX
Hi, I’m Luke Marsden. I was formerly co-founder and CTO at ClusterHQ. I’m thrilled be joining forces with Weaveworks to focus on a role that I care passionately about: Developer Experience (DX). Why I’m joining Weaveworks to work on...
August 18, 2016
Introducing Weave Scope 0.17 With Table Mode and Enhanced Performance
Scope 0.17 introduces a Table Mode as an alternative to Scope’s classic graph view. Table mode offers higher information density, and is particularly useful when there are many nodes in the graph view. It’s like a top command, for visualizing your containers!
July 21, 2016
Sock Shop: A Microservices Demo Application
If you came by our booth at DockerCon in Seattle this year you’ll have seen “Sock Shop”, our microservices demo application.We originally designed it so we could demonstrate products like Weave Net and Scope – but additional...
June 29, 2016
Container networking with no overlay on AWS VPC!
Last week we announced a new option for users who run their container infrastructure entirely within Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Weave Net now allows you to connect Docker containers directly to AWS VPC...
June 20, 2016
DockerCon 2016: Weave Cloud and Weave Net 1.6
At DockerCon today we announced the public beta of Weave Cloud, a microservices console allowing developers and operations to quickly connect, visualize and monitor containers and microservices, regardless of the orchestrator....
May 26, 2016
Cloud native application stacks: a lightly-opinionated survey
As you may know, Weaveworks is a founding member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, whose mission is to create and drive the adoption of container packaged, dynamically managed, microservice oriented applications. These modern...
May 16, 2016
How Weave Net Enables a Global Docker Cluster with OnApp
Please welcome Viktor Petersson and Bernino Lind from OnApp’s Federation. They describe how to network a Docker cluster across multiple data centers using Weave Net. Already in use by OnApp’s Federation, Weave Net plays a pivotal role in...
May 13, 2016
Scope 0.15: Search and Enhanced Kubernetes Visualization
Weave Scope is a zero-config, drop-in solution for visualizing, monitoring and controlling your Docker and Kubernetes cloud-native applications. Today, we’re releasing Weave Scope 0.15, focused on Search and enhanced Kubernetes...
May 11, 2016
Weaveworks closes $15M Series B to simplify microservices for all
Today we are announcing a $15M Series B investment from GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Accel. This brings our total funding to $20M to date. We have strong backing from two of the world’s leading VCs. This is great news for...
April 27, 2016
Reboot-tolerance in Weave Net 1.5
Weave Net has always been pretty robust: instead of a central store of config data, everything is done peer-to-peer, and machine failures don’t hold up any other peers because our data structures use...
April 22, 2016
My first DC/OS app
There had been a lot of excitement in the community around the first open-source release of DC/OS.Here at Weaveworks, the team made sure Weave Scope 0.14 works very well on DC/OS..Among the variety of DC/OS tutorials, I haven’t yet found a...
April 19, 2016
Weave Scope 0.14 with Mesosphere DC/OS support, plugins and node metrics
Weaveworks is delighted to announce a new version of Weave Scope, the zero-configuration container visualization and monitoring solution, supporting DC/OS. We share the community’s goal of making running containers in production free and...
April 13, 2016
Announcing Weave Net 1.5: Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin for Kubernetes
Weave Net 1.5 will be released next week and includes a Container Network Interface (CNI) plug-in for Kubernetes 1.2 and other software that uses the CNI API. This means you can now use Weave Net as a native networking option for...
April 11, 2016
Debugging is Easier with Docker for Mac and Weave
Debugging and testing containerized applications from a Mac can be fiddly, (because you’re running containers inside a Host, which itself is running inside the OS), especially if you have multiple containers using the same port or if a...
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...