Close the Cloud-Native Skills Gap and Use Automation to Boost Developer Productivity with Weave GitOps Release 2023.04

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Today we are announcing the 2023.04 release of Weave GitOps Enterprise, the leading GitOps Automation platform for Kubernetes. The newly released features Pipelines, GitOps Templates and GitOps Sets, focus on improving developer experience and boosting developer productivity when building, deploying, and operating applications on Kubernetes. The 2023.04 release equips platform teams with the tools and controls to empower development teams to roll-out and manage their own applications with a high-degree of trust, verification, cost management, and more.

Previous releases of Weave GitOps Enterprise laid the foundation for platform teams to build self-service platforms on top of Kubernetes; for example GitOps Run, VS Code Extension, Terraform Controller, multitenancy, and more. Today’s release furthers developer and platform team efficiency and effectiveness, and reduces the complexity and friction slowing down cloud native teams.

In addition we are announcing our latest product Weave GitOps Assured, the most comprehensive subscription from the creators of FluxCD for open source GitOps and Continuous Delivery, featuring advanced policies, centralized governance and support. FluxCD, a graduated CNCF project and Flagger empower you to deploy and operate Kubernetes applications on premise, and on any managed Kubernetes provider or public cloud. Unleash the flexibility of OSS with bitstream assurance (CVE, hotfixes) and enterprise support from Weaveworks, the cloud native experts.

Fully automated deployment pipelines

Boost developer productivity and provide an exceptional experience when promoting applications with fully automated release pipelines.

What are Pipelines?

The Pipelines feature enables teams to increase the velocity, stability, and security of software systems through the use of automated, hands-off deployment pipelines. Developers define a release pipeline for a given application as a custom resource. The pipeline can comprise any number of environments - such as Development, Staging, and Production - through which an application is expected to be deployed.

Developers can push a change to their application in their dev environment, and watch the update roll out across staging and production environments all from a PR (or an external process like Jenkins), with Weave GitOps Enterprise orchestrating everything. Designed with flexibility in mind, this feature can be easily integrated with your existing CI setup for example CircleCI, Jenkins or GitHub Actions. The Ops team can enforce guardrails that automate the rollback of changes in case of any failures across the pipeline.

This feature offers numerous benefits to developers:

• Reduce toil and errors when setting up a new pipeline or reproducing previous pipelines through YAML constructs
• Save time and overhead with automated code rollout from one environment to another, with minimal intervention from the Ops team
• One UI to observe code progression and track application versions through different environments
• Streamline code deployment from one environment to another and minimize friction between Developers and Ops teams
• Easily define which Helm charts are part of the environments they create to save massive time through automated package management.

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