Civo Meetups

Join our regular live meetups for insights into Civo, Kubernetes and the wider cloud native scene.

Meetups

Previous meetups

GenAI in Action: Strategies for Business Transformation Thumbnail
Enterprise Civo
GenAI in Action: Strategies for Business Transformation

Understand the latest trends and applications of GenAI and gain actionable insights to drive innovation and growth in your business with our expert-led webinar.

Josh Mesout avatar Kunal Kushwaha avatar Kendall Miller avatar
Unlocking the Power of GPUs and LLMs: Scalable AI Solutions with Civo Thumbnail
Enterprise Civo
Unlocking the Power of GPUs and LLMs: Scalable AI Solutions with Civo

Discover how Civo helps businesses scale AI with GPUs, LLMs, and open-source solutions, addressing data sovereignty and infrastructure scalability challenges.

Josh Mesout avatar Simon Hansford avatar
Building India's Digital Future with Cloud Computing Thumbnail
Kubernetes Enterprise
Building India's Digital Future with Cloud Computing

Explore India's rapid digital transformation, the role of sovereign cloud solutions, and how businesses can harness the cloud to drive growth and innovation in a $26 trillion economy by 2047.

Kunal Kushwaha avatar Janakiram Msv avatar
Is OpenTelemetry the Key to Better Application Performance Monitoring? Thumbnail
Kubernetes
Is OpenTelemetry the Key to Better Application Performance Monitoring?

Discover how OpenTelemetry is transforming APM with best practices for deeper visibility, faster issue resolution, and scalable observability in cloud-native environments.

Kunal Kushwaha avatar Sudhir Singh avatar
The Cost of Cloud 2024: Navigating rising cloud spend and complexity Thumbnail
Enterprise
The Cost of Cloud 2024: Navigating rising cloud spend and complexity

We delved into our latest white paper highlighting emerging trends and challenges in cloud economics with Mark Boost, Dinesh Majrekar, and Simon Hansford.

Mark Boost avatar Dinesh Majrekar avatar Simon Hansford avatar
Beyond Booleans: How Feature Flags and OpenFeature Can Level Up Your Next Project Thumbnail
Kubernetes
Beyond Booleans: How Feature Flags and OpenFeature Can Level Up Your Next Project

In this meetup, we explored a variety of creative ways to use feature flags in your projects.

Kunal Kushwaha avatar Kyle Johnson avatar Jonathan Norris avatar
Scaling AI workloads with Kubernetes Thumbnail
Kubernetes
Scaling AI workloads with Kubernetes

We explored the complexities involved and effective strategies for managing LLM/AI deployments on Kubernetes, focusing on cost-efficiency and scalability.

Tsavo Knott avatar Shivay Lamba avatar Kunal Kushwaha avatar
Alternative options to VMware: An introduction to CivoStack Enterprise Thumbnail
Enterprise
Alternative options to VMware: An introduction to CivoStack Enterprise

Dinesh Majrekar, Henry Godwin, and Peter Seddon delved into the profound impact that the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom had on service providers and the ongoing challenges they faced.

Dinesh Majrekar avatar Henry Godwin avatar Peter Seddon avatar
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Kubernetes
Centralized Multi-Cluster Management and Operations

Watch back our webinar on centralized multi-cluster management and operations, during which we explored how to manage multiple clusters across various regions.

Saiyam Pathak avatar Neil Cresswell avatar
Service mesh and ingress controllers: Bringing the outside world in Thumbnail
Kubernetes
Service mesh and ingress controllers: Bringing the outside world in

We were joined by Flynn & Kai for a whirlwind tour of how service meshes interact with ingress controllers using the Linkerd service mesh with Emissary-ingress, NGINX, and Envoy Gateway.

Flynn avatar Kai Hoffman avatar
Advancing Platform Engineering with Northflank and Civo Thumbnail
Kubernetes
Advancing Platform Engineering with Northflank and Civo

Dinesh Majrekar (CTO at Civo) and Will Stewart (Co-Founder & CEO at Northflank) explored the intricacies of building robust, scalable platforms using Northflank on Civo's cloud infrastructure.

Dinesh Majrekar avatar Will Stewart avatar
Kubernetes Unpacked: Embracing GitOps & Best-Practice Tools with Kubefirst Thumbnail
Kubernetes
Kubernetes Unpacked: Embracing GitOps & Best-Practice Tools with Kubefirst

Dive into the world of Kubernetes in our meetup with Kai Hoffman, Frédéric Harper, and John Dietz.

Kai Hoffman avatar Frederic Harper avatar John Dietz avatar
Mastering Multi-Cloud Management: Advanced Tagging, Expense Monitoring, and Resource Visualization Thumbnail
Kubernetes
Mastering Multi-Cloud Management: Advanced Tagging, Expense Monitoring, and Resource Visualization

Join Saiyam Pathak (Field CTO at Civo) and Jake Page (Community Developer at Tailwarden) for a comprehensive discussion on how to take control of your multi-cloud environment by diving into advanced cloud tagging strategies.

Saiyam Pathak avatar Jake Page avatar
The Evolution of DevOps with Modern Tooling Thumbnail
Kubernetes Civo
The Evolution of DevOps with Modern Tooling

Narayan Sainaney (Codezero CTO) and Dinesh Majrekar (Civo CTO) discussed local development in a multi-cloud scenario with Civo and Codezero.

Dinesh Majrekar avatar Narayan Sainaney avatar
Maximizing Developer Efficiency with Civo and StackState Thumbnail
Kubernetes
Maximizing Developer Efficiency with Civo and StackState

Dinesh Majrekar (CTO at Civo) and Andreas Prins (CEO of StackState) discussed how developers can maximize their developer efficiency through various tools and techniques.

Dinesh Majrekar avatar Andreas Prins avatar
Best Practices for Effective Monitoring and Observability Thumbnail
Kubernetes
Best Practices for Effective Monitoring and Observability

Matt Gibiec, Sr. Solutions Engineer at Dynatrace joined Kunal Kushwaha, Developer Relations Manager at Civo, to discuss the best practices for effective monitoring and observability and how this can be applied to your business.

Matt Gibiec avatar Kunal Kushwaha avatar
Reduce your cloud spend Thumbnail
Kubernetes
Reduce your cloud spend

In this session, Mark Boost, Dinesh Majrekar, and Saiyam Pathak, will be discussing the current state of the cloud industry and why costs are so high, how to take steps to reduce your spend, and looking at how Civo can help.

Mark Boost avatar Dinesh Majrekar avatar Saiyam Pathak avatar
Application Deployment to Civo with a Terraform Template Thumbnail
Kubernetes Demo
Application Deployment to Civo with a Terraform Template

In this session our CTO, Dinesh Majrekar used a new terraform template repo to deploy a cluster, install an ingress and let-encrypt helm chart all from Terraform.

Dinesh Majrekar avatar
Kubernetes management with Portainer and Civo Thumbnail
Marketplace Community Demo Kubernetes
Kubernetes management with Portainer and Civo

For this meetup, we were joined by Portainer to look into how the container management platform can help simplify day-to-day Kubernetes management.

Saiyam Pathak avatar Adolfo Delorenzo avatar
The future of K3s and Kubernetes Thumbnail
Kubernetes Civo
The future of K3s and Kubernetes

In our roundtable panel, we discussed how the future of k3s is being shaped by the industry and examples of how we utilize k3s applications.

Dinesh Majrekar avatar Kunal Kushwaha avatar Kai Hoffman avatar David Fogle avatar
K8s monitoring and observability with ContainIQ Thumbnail
Community Kubernetes Civo
K8s monitoring and observability with ContainIQ

Matthew Lenhard, CTO at ContainIQ, joined us for a meetup about Kubernetes monitoring and observability, and using the Kubernetes events feed to enhance that monitoring.

Matthew Lenhard avatar Kai Hoffman avatar
Multi-cluster management and observability with KubeSphere Thumbnail
Community Kubernetes Demo
Multi-cluster management and observability with KubeSphere

We were joined by Feynman Zhou and Felix Liu from the KubeSphere team who demonstrated how to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters and run multi-cluster applications with ease using KubeSphere.

Feynman Zhou avatar Kunal Kushwaha avatar
Networking, security & observability with Cilium Thumbnail
Community Kubernetes Demo
Networking, security & observability with Cilium

Raymond de Jong, Senior Solutions Architect at Isovalent, was our guest as we explore Cilium - a BPF powered open-source Cloud Native Networking solution, providing security, observability, scalability, and superior performance.

Raymond de Jong avatar Kunal Kushwaha avatar
Connecting and securing microservices with EnRoute Thumbnail
Community Kubernetes Demo
Connecting and securing microservices with EnRoute

In this meetup, we welcomed Chintan, founder of Saaras Inc, and Kunal Kushwaha, developer advocate at Civo, to discuss how to connect and secure your microservices in one step.

Chintan Thakker avatar Kunal Kushwaha avatar
Debugging in production with Rookout Thumbnail
Community Kubernetes Demo
Debugging in production with Rookout

In this meetup, we welcomed Josh Hendrick from Rookout and David Fogle from Civo to discuss debugging within the Kubernetes landscape.

Josh Hendrick avatar David Fogle avatar
Preventing Kubernetes misconfigurations and deprecations with Datree Thumbnail
Community Kubernetes Demo
Preventing Kubernetes misconfigurations and deprecations with Datree

We were joined by Datree's Shimon Tolts and Civo's Kunal Kushwaha and as they talked about preventing Kubernetes misconfigurations and deprecations.

Shimon Tolts avatar Kunal Kushwaha avatar
Software development from anywhere with a dash of noyaml.com Thumbnail
Community Kubernetes Demo
Software development from anywhere with a dash of noyaml.com

We welcomed Philippe Charrière (Gitlab) and Geoffrey Huntley (Gitpod) for two talks on utilising Gitpod: A tool for spinning up automated development environments, in the cloud, for any task.

Philippe Charrière avatar Geoffrey Huntley avatar
Automation In The Cloud: How Civo Uses Terraform Thumbnail
Demo Kubernetes
Automation In The Cloud: How Civo Uses Terraform

In this meetup Alex Jones, Principal Engineer at Civo, look at how Civo uses DRY methodology to create simple templates with isolated workspaces, showing how anyone can improve their terraform code longevity through a few simple techniques.

Alex Jones avatar
The evolution of Chaos Engineering and Litmus Chaos Thumbnail
Marketplace Community Kubernetes
The evolution of Chaos Engineering and Litmus Chaos

We were joined by Karthik Satchitanand, co-founder of Litmus Chaos to discuss why chaos testing is seen as a must for Cloud-Native practitioners in 2021, and how the introduction of LitmusChaos 2.0 evolves chaos engineering further.

Saiyam Pathak avatar Karthik Satchitanand avatar
Gloo Edge - A simple way to manage API on Kubernetes Thumbnail
Marketplace Community Kubernetes Demo
Gloo Edge - A simple way to manage API on Kubernetes

We were joined by Saiyam Pathak alongside Kamesh Sampath (Field Engineer, Solo.io) to discuss Gloo Edge and API management on Kubernetes.

Saiyam Pathak avatar Kamesh Sampath avatar
GitOps with Argo and Crossplane Thumbnail
Marketplace Community Kubernetes Demo
GitOps with Argo and Crossplane

In this meetup Viktor Farcic and Anaïs Urlichs explored Crossplane through the Civo Crossplane Provider.

Anaïs Urlichs avatar Viktor Farcic avatar
CSI Driver Internals and Writing a Kubernetes Operator From Scratch Thumbnail
Community Kubernetes Demo
CSI Driver Internals and Writing a Kubernetes Operator From Scratch

We deep-dive into into the inner workings of our custom-built Kubernetes platform we call 'CivoStack'.

Andy Jeffries avatar Dinesh Majrekar avatar
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Community Kubernetes Demo
Kubernetes service mesh focus

This time around the topic was Kubernetes service meshes and the role they play in providing visibility and open communication between your pods/containers.

Saiyam Pathak avatar Kai Hoffman avatar Jason Morgan avatar
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Community Kubernetes
Kubernetes security focus

For our seventh online meetup, we discussed the critical topic of cloud-native security, focusing on Kubernetes. We looked into security of clusters, containers and code as well as explore some applications that help make sure your setups are secure.

Saiyam Pathak avatar Milind Chawre avatar Jahred Love avatar
Beyond the KUBE100 beta Thumbnail
Kubernetes Civo
Beyond the KUBE100 beta

As we move towards the end of our Kubernetes beta and get ready to 'go-live' we discuss some of the exciting recent developments and future plans.

Mark Boost avatar Andy Jeffries avatar Kai Hoffman avatar Saiyam Pathak avatar
K3s Internals: The crazy things we do to make k8s simple Thumbnail
Kubernetes
K3s Internals: The crazy things we do to make k8s simple

Special guest Darren Shepherd, the creator of K3s, joined the Civo meetup to discuss K3s internals and answers questions from our community.

Andy Jeffries avatar Darren Shepherd avatar
Machine learning on Kubernetes + Open Policy Agent Thumbnail
Kubernetes Community
Machine learning on Kubernetes + Open Policy Agent

In this edition of the community meetup we dived into Machine Learning and Open Policy Agent on Kubernetes.

Alex Jones avatar Suse avatar Saiyam Pathak avatar
Focus on the Civo application market Thumbnail
Kubernetes Community Marketplace
Focus on the Civo application market

This community meetup took a deeper look into how the Civo marketplace can improve your Kubernetes workflows. Featuring some cool apps to try out, and how you can easily get involved with contributing, growing, and ultimately improving the marketplace.

Saiyam Pathak avatar Kai Hoffman avatar Steve Miller avatar Jurgen Etzlstorfer avatar
CI/CD and Kubernetes Thumbnail
Kubernetes Community
CI/CD and Kubernetes

For our second community meetup we focussed on using Civo for CI/CD through GitOps and Github actions for cloud native application development.

Andy Jeffries avatar Johannes Tegner avatar Sam Weston avatar Kai Hoffman avatar
Introducing Civo and Kubernetes-native development Thumbnail
Kubernetes Community Civo
Introducing Civo and Kubernetes-native development

The very first Civo Community Meetup is here! Episode #1 featured talks from Civo CTO Andy Jeffries and Developer Advocate Kai Hoffman, alongside #KUBE100 community members Saiyam Pathak and Alistair Hey.

Andy Jeffries avatar Kai Hoffman avatar Saiyam Pathak avatar Alistair Hey avatar