OpenShift Commons Briefing #59: Using Weave Scope to Test Apps for Degraded Networks
Channel: OpenShift
Date: 23/01/2017

Guest Speakers: Alban Crequy of Kinvolk.io and Ilya Dmitrichenko of Weave.works

In an OpenShift Commons Briefing last May, we demoed a prototype of using Weave Scope on OpenShift to do traffic shaping; limit bandwidth, drop packages, change latency. Since then, Weaveworks and Kinvolk worked together to make this available as a proper Scope plugin (https://github.com/weaveworks-plugins/scope-traffic-control).

This time around, we’ll demonstrate the outcome of that work. Specifically, we’ll introduce Weave Scope and look at its plugin architecture, demo a few of the plugins that are currently available, and see how Scope plugins can be installed on OpenShift.

We’ll use the microservices-dem (https://github.com/microservices-demo/microservices-demo), Sock Shop, to see an example of how traffic shaping is useful for testing. Finally, we will introduce you to some of the katacoda (https://katacoda.com/) guides available on the Weave website

(https://www.weave.works/guides/) where you can test out and learn more about Weave Scope.