Weaveworks, a start-up offering networking and monitoring for containers and microservices, secured $15 million in Series B funding led by new investor GV (formerly Google Ventures).
Weaveworks’ Weave provides a simple and consistent way to connect and manage containers and microservices. It provides simple and reliable networking across development, test and production environments and any mix of data centers and public c111louds. Weave also provides a unique console to visualize and interact with container and microservice deployments in development and production.
The new funding round also included participation from existing investor Accel.
“We’re delighted to welcome GV as a new investor, and Accel as a repeat investor in Weaveworks,” said Alexis Richardson, co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks and chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee. “Both share our vision of simplifying microservice-based application development by minimizing the connectivity and deployment complexities, and providing unique visual ways to understand and manage cloud-native applications.”
Weave Enhances its Networking + Monitoring for Docker
Weaveworks, a start-up with offices in San Francisco and London, announced the 1.4 release of its networking and monitoring software for Docker deployments.
Weave Net 1.4 is a Docker networking plug-in that eliminates the requirement to run and manage an external cluster store (database). The plug-in simplifies and accelerates the deployment of Docker containers by removing the requirement to deploy, manage and maintain a centralized database in development and production. It builds on Docker’s core networking capabilities. It runs a “micro router” on each Docker host that works just like an Internet router, providing IP addresses to local containers and sharing peer-to-peer updates with other micro-routers, and learning from their updates. It also responds to DNS requests by containers looking to find other containers by name, also known as Service Discovery. Features include:
- A simple overlay networking approach for connecting containers across Docker hosts
- Fast, standards-based VXLAN encapsulation for the network traffic
- An application-centric micro-network
- Built-in service discovery
Weaveworks developed “micro router” technology to make Docker container networking fast, easy and “invisible”.
“Removing the dependency on a cluster store makes it faster, easier and simpler to build, ship and run Docker containers,” said Mathew Lodge, COO of Weaveworks. “Weave Net 1.4 embodies Weaveworks’ commitment to making simple, easy to use products that accelerate the deployment of microservices and cloud native applications on containerized infrastructure.”
