In this episode of the Cloud Native Now Podcast, Mike and Sharon deliver a eulogy for Weaveworks, which founder Alexis Richardson announced in a LinkedIn post this week would shut down after it failed to secure necessary funding. Weaveworks was a critical foundation of the GitOps movement and its Flux project provides GitOps for apps and infrastructure. As of 2022, the project boasted more than 1 billion downloads, and it is a graduated project with the CNCF. Why is GitOps so important? What is Flux? And what happens to GitOps and Flux now that Weaveworks is no more? Tune in to find out.   Links Referenced in Podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richardsonalexis_hi-everyone-i-am-very-sad-to-announce-activity-7160295096825860096-ZS67 What is GitOps? Why so important?https://devops.com/the-differences-between-devops-and-gitops/ https://cloudnativenow.com/topics/gitops-workflows-and-principles-for-kubernetes/What is Flux?https://cloudnativenow.com/features/introduction-to-fluxhttps://cloudnativenow.com/features/gitops-workflows-expanding-beyond-kubernetes-clusters/https://www.cncf.io/projects/flux/

The Cloud Native Now podcast is dedicated to everything related to the modern cloud-native stack: Kubernetes, microservices, platform engineering, platform-as-a-service, cloud-native security, cloud-native application protection, SaaS, serverless, WebAssembly (Wasm), containers and more. Tune in weekly as our hosts explore current events, best practices, culture, issues and trends. In this episode, Mike and Sharon talk about the state of cloud native and Kubernetes, touch on cloud-native security, cluster management issues, Docker's latest moves and whether Kubernetes is actually fit for purpose. Have a topic you want us to cover? A guest you want to hear from? Or just want to tell us how wrong we are? Email Sharon at [email protected] and let's keep the cloud-native conversation going!Links Referenced in Podcast: State of Kuberneteshttps://cloudnativenow.com/features/fairwinds-report-surfaces-biggest-kubernetes-management-challenges/ https://cloudnativenow.com/features/2024-will-see-increased-kubernetes-interoperability-challenges/ Is Kubernetes Fit for Purpose?https://cloudnativenow.com/topics/is-kubernetes-fit-for-purpose/Kubernetes Insecurityhttps://cloudnativenow.com/features/sysdig-report-surfaces-major-container-security-challenges/ https://cloudnativenow.com/features/report-surfaces-high-level-of-kubernetes-insecurity-in-the-cloud/ https://cloudnativenow.com/features/cado-security-labs-identifies-campaign-to-compromise-docker-hosts/ Docker vs CIhttps://cloudnativenow.com/features/docker-inc-delivers-cloud-service-for-creating-software-builds/ Open Source Costshttps://cloudnativenow.com/features/the-hidden-costs-of-cloud-native-open-source/