platform engineering Take Charge of Your Developer Experience with Platform Engineering & Weave GitOps

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In the dynamic world of software development, Developer Experience (DevEx or DX) is becoming increasingly vital. It's all about creating an environment where developers can thrive, blending ease of use, efficiency, and overall job satisfaction. Good DevEx is more than just a convenience; it's a strategic asset; It leads to higher productivity, quicker development timelines, and better-quality software. By fine-tuning the tools and methods used by developers and fostering a supportive work culture, DevEx directly influences a company's ability to innovate and stay ahead in the competitive tech industry.

At Weaveworks, we know how a poor developer experience can cause frustration, misalignment between Development and Ops teams, and duplication of work. This is why we have built Weave GitOps Enterprise: a state-of-the-art GitOps platform powered by Flux CD and Flagger. It empowers developers and platform operators to build and manage an internal development platform easily.

In this blog, we round up all the important resources, assets, and videos on DX and Weave GitOps. From whitepapers to blogs and on-demand webinars, we’re confident you’ll learn something new here.

Expand Your Knowledge with Our Detailed Whitepapers

Why Self-Service is Key to Developer Productivity

Organizations can enable great developer experience with a self-service platform that serves the developers’ needs and eliminates causes of friction between Developers and Ops teams. You’ll learn the essential elements of good DX, the root causes of developer frustration, and how to leverage GitOps to implement a self-service developer platform.

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The GitOps Guide to Building & Managing Internal Platforms

The way to foster an outstanding developer experience is to leverage the internal platform approach because it helps to get resources to developers on-demand and in a secure way. But, adopting the platform approach alone is not enough. Organizations need to think strategically about how they would build and maintain the platform. And looking ahead, how to build a new development culture around the platform that makes software delivery seamless. This paper explores how the GitOps framework can be used for building internal platforms at scale and how it enables continuous application delivery.

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The Weave GitOps’ Blueprint for Exceptional DX

Weave GitOps Enterprise is a continuous operation solution that makes it easy to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and applications at scale in any environment. It boasts a number of distinct features that elevate DX and empower platform teams to build self-service platforms. These include:

• Platform Engineering & Self-Service Platforms: Platform engineering and internal developer platforms automate operational overhead and abstract infrastructure complexity for software teams. Learn more about the benefits of platform engineering and how Weave GitOps serves as an effective solution for building internal developer platforms.
• Progressive Application Delivery: Progressive delivery is a modern set of practices for application deployment, including canary releasing, blue-green deployments, A/B testing, and feature flagging. These strategies allow for the gradual rollout of new application features to a subset of users, enabling developers to smoothly release new features with minimal risk. Learn More.
• Security and Compliance Policy Guardrails: Weave Policy Engine enables platform operators to enforce security and compliance policies, ensuring resilient infrastructure and compliance framework across all Kubernetes deployments. Consequently, developers can concentrate on their primary tasks, free from the complexities of security and compliance. Read More.
• Self-Service Templates: Self-Service Templates and Profiles empower developers to create reusable configurations for applications. By saving configurations, this feature not only saves time, but also mitigates potential errors during the deployment process. Read More.
• CI/CD Automation with GitOps: While CI tools like Selenium and Jenkins have gone a long way to automate tests and builds, GitOps lets you automate every step of the CI/CD pipeline, including the deployment stage. Read More.

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