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...
November 03, 2015
Life and Docker Networking - One Year On
Welcome to Docker 1.9 Today Docker has released Docker 1.9, which includes advances in Docker Networking. Perhaps the most important is the introduction of a new overlay networking approach to connect docker containers running across...
November 03, 2015
Docker networking 1.9 and Weave technical deep-dive
This is a technical follow up to the previous post, Life and Docker Networking – One year On. Please note that our goal here, shared with Docker, is to make the customer experience as straightforward as possible. Do get in touch if you...
November 02, 2015
Weave Scope 0.9 Released
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 0.9.0 is out today, with some great new improvements and...
October 15, 2015
Automating Weave deployment on Docker hosts with Weave Discovery
Weave Net implements an overlay container network that links together all containers, regardless of where the Docker hosts are running. Weave is designed to work with minimal configuration and zero application changes. So when you add a...
October 08, 2015
Weave: the fastest path to Docker on Amazon EC2 Container Service
Today, Weaveworks is making it even faster and easier to deploy and see Docker container applications on Amazon Web Services’ EC2 Container Service (ECS). We’re delighted to be one of the launch Container Partners in the ECS marketplace,...
October 06, 2015
Cloud Native VMs
We have a great guest post for you today. Everyone knows that containers are fantastic for new cloud native applications. But what about the huge numbers of existing applications in the enterprise? Can these also...
October 05, 2015
Welcome Mathew Lodge, Weaveworks' New COO
I’m extremely pleased to share some big news today, with Mathew Lodge (@mathewlodge) joining us as the COO of Weaveworks. Mathew joins us from VMware, where he was Vice President in VMware’s Cloud Services group. His...