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October 2021

Various policy engines for Kubernetes policies - Saiyam Pathak

Kubernetes configurations are complex to manage across developers and operators. External tools like Helm, Kustomize cannot ensure environment-specific configurations and admission controllers provide a way to do this. Now, various tools have evolved over time that helps solve this problem - OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Kubewarden and jsPolicy. In this talk during ContainerDays 2021, Saiyam Pathak from Civo goes through the need for a policy engine and discusses how each of the tools help along with the differences between them and where these are headed to.

Observability trends 2021

Observability has gained a lot of momentum and is now rightly a central component of the microservices landscape: It’s an important part of the cloud native world where you may have many microservices deployed on a production Kubernetes cluster, and a need to monitor these microservices keeps rising. In production, quickly finding failures and fixing them is crucial. As the name suggests, observability plays an important role in this failure discovery.

One cloud IDE to rule them all - Philippe Charrière, GitLab

As a Technical Account Manager (at GitLab) Phillipe often needs to demo GitLab features to help customers gain more "DevOps" (or CI/CD) maturity. So having the ability to create and deploy infrastructure quickly for new demo environments is crucial. This is where Gitpod and Civo come in. In this talk Philippe will run through provisioning a Civo Kubernetes cluster with Gitpod, deploying GitLab Runner on the cluster, connecting to it, and setting up the GitLab Kubernetes integration

What if the industry didn't use Docker? - Geoffrey Huntley, GitPod

The recent announcements by the Docker corporation regarding pricing has prompted some organizations to consider moving to alternatives such as Podman which is - at its core - still Docker. Docker solved many problems in the industry related to distribution of software via encapsulation, but also created software supply chain problems.

General availability announcement

After nearly 2 years of perfecting our product during our beta phase and just over 5 months since we opened for early access, I have great pleasure in announcing that Civo is now 'General Availability'. It's taken us over 4 years to get to where we are today, with a colossal amount of work being contributed by our team to build the Civo platform and developer eco-system. I can honestly say that we're lucky to have so many amazing people at Civo.

General availability announcement

After nearly 2 years of perfecting our product during our beta phase and just over 5 months since we opened for early access, I have great pleasure in announcing that Civo is now 'General Availability'. It's taken us over 4 years to get to where we are today, with a colossal amount of work being contributed by our team to build the Civo platform and developer eco-system. I can honestly say that we're lucky to have so many amazing people at Civo.

Software development from anywhere with a dash of noyaml.com - Civo Online Meetup #14

Philippe Charrière (Gitlab) and Geoffrey Huntley (Gitpod) joined us for two talks on utilising Gitpod: A tool for spinning up automated development environments, in the cloud, for any task. In this talk Philippe walked through deploying GitLab Runner quickly on Kubernetes by provisioning GitPod on a Civo Kubernetes cluster, connecting to it, and setting up the GitLab Kubernetes integration.