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Civo Community Meetup #3: App Marketplace Focus w/ Steve Miller and Jürgen Etzlstorfer
This community meetup took a deeper look into how the Civo marketplace can improve your Kubernetes workflows.
Ricky Law
Tales from the ups and downs of running a cloud
Our first episode takes us back to the early days of launching Civo, where we had a fledgeling Ceph cluster with a bunch of SSDs in each. Those were darker times, in the early days of OpenStack.
Andy Jeffries
From beta tester, to building the next-gen Civo platform
How I went from COVID-unemployed, to beta tester, to joining the Civo team building the next-gen k3s platform
David Fogle
Civo Community Meetup #3: App Marketplace Focus w/ Steve Miller and Jürgen Etzlstorfer
This community meetup took a deeper look into how the Civo marketplace can improve your Kubernetes workflows.
Tales from the ups and downs of running a cloud
Our first episode takes us back to the early days of launching Civo, where we had a fledgeling Ceph cluster with a bunch of SSDs in each. Those were darker times, in the early days of OpenStack.
From beta tester, to building the next-gen Civo platform
How I went from COVID-unemployed, to beta tester, to joining the Civo team building the next-gen k3s platform
Announcing Ambassadors
We're excited to launch our new ambassadors program - created to recognise the most helpful and knowledgeable Civo community members.
Civo Community Meetup #2: CI/CD focus w/ Sam Weston and Johannes Tegnér
In our second community meeting we focussed on all things CI/CD. Featuring talks from Andy and Kai at Civo, and community members Sam Weston and Johannes Tegnér.
Civo Community Meetup #1 w/ Saiyam Pathak and Alistair Hey
The very first Civo Community Meetup is here! Episode #1 featured talks from Civo CTO Andy Jeffries and Developer Advocate Kai Hoffman, alongside Civo community members Saiyam Pathak and Alistair Hey.
New command line client, back to Go!
Today we are officially announcing our new Go-based CLI. It's a smaller download, easier to install, quicker to run and has some cool features for easier integration in to your own scripts. There are lots of reasons behind why rewriting though...
You’ve launched your first Kubernetes cluster, now what?
As Kubernetes continues to grow in popularity at a staggering rate, it’s only natural more and more people want to see what all the fuss is about. So if you're keen to get started with Kubernetes but are not sure what to try first, here are a few ideas.
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.
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