Weave Ignite

Weaveworks, a London-based container startup, has built on the Ignite distributed database and Firecracker microVM platform to advance its vision for GitOps-style management of Kubernetes clusters.

Weave Ignite offers an open source virtual machine with a container UX and built-in GitOps management.

The project takes advantage of the lightweight Firecracker virtual machines developed by AWS to optimize security, isolation, speed and resource consumption.

With GitOps methodology, where a Git serves as a single source of truth for describing infrastructure, Weave Ignite can manage VMs declaratively and automatically.