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Andy Jeffries  13 Mar, 2020

Why We Chose K3s to Power Our Kubernetes Service

This blog post is an adaptation of a talk I gave at Cloud Native Birmingham in the UK in February 2020. It details the advantages of k3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution we have deployed as part of a managed Kubernetes service.

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Kai Hoffman  06 Feb, 2020

K3s Use Cases - How K3s Can Save You Time and Resources

We have made much of why we went with Rancher’s k3s to underpin Civo’s managed Kubernetes service but I wanted to take a bit of a deeper dive into k3s and why in particular it is a great technological choice

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Andy Jeffries  31 Jan, 2020

A Civo 2019 retrospective: How we got here and what's next

Looking back over 2019 it's been a huge time of change for us as a company. When I co-founded Civo four years ago we were aiming to be an IaaS provider, focusing on small developers and teams rather than huge corporate hosting requirements.

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Kai Hoffman  18 Dec, 2019

Our Top 10 Kubernetes and Cloud Native Guides For 2019

Our Top 10 Kubernetes and Cloud Native Guides For 2019: The 10 best Kubernets and Cloud Native guides of the year

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Kai Hoffman  25 Nov, 2019

KubeCon & CloudNativeCon NA 2019 Retrospective

Kubernetes as a technology has enjoyed incredible success, and it's due to the open source nature and various companies all contributing resources to its development.

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Ricky Law  14 Nov, 2019

#KUBE100: The Story So Far

On an unassuming afternoon on Wednesday the 18th September, we launched a world’s first! A k3s-powered, managed Kubernetes service. We were in for a ride...

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Ricky Law  24 Sep, 2019

#KUBE100 is here!

After many months of feverishly working behind the scenes, we’re beyond excited to announce that the #KUBE100 beta program is live.

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Andy Jeffries  24 Jul, 2019

CI/CD/Civo/C-what?

We see the benefits of a modern cloud native architecture, so we built our hosting of www.civo.com and api.civo.com (our application) to take full advantage of these modern decisions