Weave GitOps

Weave GitOps Enterprise is a continuous operations product offered by Weaveworks. According to the vendor, it simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters and applications at scale in any environment. The product aims to provide a single management console for automating trusted application delivery and secure infrastructure operations. It is targeted at small to large enterprises in various professions and industries, including DevOps teams, platform teams, cloud-native teams, IT operations, and software development.

Key Features

Trusted Delivery with Policy as Code: Weave GitOps Enterprise offers administrators the ability to apply custom policies based on different criteria, aiming to ensure trusted delivery and policy adherence throughout the software development lifecycle. According to the vendor, it leverages standard Open Policy Agent Rego and GitOps for policy management, while also monitoring for security issues and drift detection or remediation.

Application Management: Weave GitOps Enterprise allows users to understand and manage the application lifecycle within a GitOps enabled cluster. It provides features to detect drift, evaluate cluster health, inform roll back actions, and monitor continuous operations.

Trusted Application Delivery: According to the vendor, this feature enables the addition of policy as code to GitOps pipelines, ensuring security, compliance, application resilience, and coding standards from source to production. The product claims that policy conformance can be validated at every step in the software delivery pipeline.

Self-Service Templates and Profiles: Weave GitOps Enterprise offers self-service templates that aim to enable teams to deploy standard services quickly, consistently, and reliably. Users can curate the available profiles within their estate, aiming to ensure consistency across deployments. The vendor states that GitOps simplifies the process of deploying the latest, secure versions of components in production systems.

Health Status and Compliance Dashboards: Weave GitOps Enterprise provides users with a comprehensive view of the health and state of their cluster and workloads through intuitive dashboards. It allows monitoring deployments and receiving alerts on policy violations across applications and clusters.

Critical 24/7 Support: The vendor offers 24/7 support to address any issues or problems promptly. Users can operate with confidence, knowing that expert support is available.

GitOps Run: According to the vendor, GitOps Run simplifies the adoption of GitOps by providing real-time visibility into reconciliations and issues, reducing troubleshooting time.

Cluster Fleet Management: Weave GitOps Enterprise enables the deployment of the same application across multiple clusters, including cloud and hybrid environments. Changes can be easily managed using Git and Cluster API.

Progressive Delivery: The product claims to facilitate safe deployments into production environments using canary, blue/green, and A/B strategies. Users can define success/rollback Service Level Objectives (SLOs) using observability metrics from popular monitoring tools.

Kubernetes Anywhere: Weave GitOps Enterprise aims to reduce complexity by providing GitOps-enabled installations across major target environments. It claims to seamlessly integrate with on-premise, edge, hybrid, and multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters.