December 03, 2014
What Do We Do at Weaveworks?
Since I made the jump from finance to startups this year, the first question anyone asks is “What are you doing now, Bryan?”. “I work at a startup, building overlay networks and other tools for Linux Containers”. “Really? What’s that...
November 25, 2014
What We Do! (Via some slides from operatingsystems.io)
Today I spoke at operatingsystems.io – an extremely interesting event as it turned out. Lots of great speakers, on top form, including no less than three on userland networking. I spoke about the bigger picture, with reference...
November 24, 2014
Using Puppet, Weave and Docker in Production
Today on the Weave Blog, we welcome Hugh Esco back for another guest post. About six weeks ago, Hugh wrote about migrating his applications to a new data centre using Docker and Weave. As part of that work, Hugh wrote a Puppet...
November 13, 2014
Life and Docker Networking
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” In this post, we’ll take a break from talking about Weave and instead have a look around at the emerging set of proposals for Docker...
November 04, 2014
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...
November 03, 2014
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...
November 01, 2014
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...
October 31, 2014
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...