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August 2022

Introduction to various Kubernetes dashboards by @Saiyam Pathak

In this session, Saiyam Pathak, Director of Technical Evangelism at Civo will discuss various Kubernetes dashboards that can be used to view the cluster and its related metrics and discuss the benefits of each. Saiyam will also look into the Kubernetes dashboard, Skooner, Headlamp, Lens, and Octant.

Understanding monitoring and observability

Roaming in the world of cloud technology not only helps you take a glance at the realm of cutting-edge technology but also helps you get familiar with concepts such as monitoring and observability. This article will cover an introduction to monitoring and the need for monitoring applications. From here, we will look at how you can utilize the data received when monitoring an application. This will allow us to understand how the concept of observability fits in with monitoring.

Testing the mettle: All you need to know about evaluating data solutions for large-scale applications

Imagine your organization encounters a project where you have to switch storage vendors... What would you do? To begin with, you will need to evaluate and test the performance of the storage providers on your servers. At Civo, we faced a similar project, allowing us to test several storage providers on our bare metal servers. In this article, we will discuss what you should look for while migrating to a different provider and the ways you can test these providers.

Civo Update - August 2022

In July, we released two new enterprise offerings, CivoStack and Edge! CivoStack is an enterprise-ready hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution built for security, performance, and scale. To find out more visit our product page! Edge is our purpose-built Kubernetes hosted infrastructure, designed for on-location edge computing. Created with security, compliance and low latency in mind, find out more here.

Application Deployment to Civo with a Terraform Template

Join our CTO, Dinesh Majrekar, as he deploys the infrastructure needed to host any application on Civo. This session will use a new terraform template repo to deploy a cluster, install an ingress and let-encrypt helm chart all from terraform. Once these basics are in place, the cluster can be used in GitOps pipelines by other teams to actually deploy their code.