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How to build AI agents with n8n and relaxAI: Live webinar

You have the ideas, now learn how to turn them into production-ready AI agents. Join us on January 21st at 5:00 PM for a live webinar featuring Ben Norris, AI Engineer at Civo, and Sophia McKee, COO at Civo. We will demonstrate how to design, build, and deploy intelligent agents using n8n’s visual workflow automation platform, all powered by secure, UK-hosted infrastructure from relaxAI. You'll learn how to orchestrate tools, APIs, and LLMs to create scalable automations without needing deep coding expertise.

Site24x7's Kubernetes monitoring | Proactive, scalable, AI-powered

Kubernetes drives modern cloud-native applications, but its distributed nature creates visibility and performance challenges at scale. In this video, discover how Site24x7 provides real-time monitoring, AI-powered anomaly detection, and scalability for Kubernetes environments, helping you to proactively manage resources and resolve issues faster. Key features of Site24x7 Kubernetes Monitoring: Whether you're running a single Kubernetes cluster or managing multiple environments, Site24x7 helps you ensure peak performance and faster decision-making with minimal manual intervention.

How Istio Ambient Mode Delivers Real World Solutions

For years, platform teams have known what a service mesh can provide: strong workload identity, authorization, mutual TLS authentication and encryption, fine-grained traffic control, and deep observability across distributed systems. In theory, Istio checked all the boxes. In practice though, many teams hit a wall. Across industries like financial services, media, retail, and SaaS, organizations told a similar story. They wanted mTLS between services to meet regulatory or security requirements.

Scaling Kubernetes GitOps with Fleet: Experiment Results and Lessons Learnt

Fleet, Rancher’s built-in GitOps engine, is designed to scale up to thousands of clusters. However, “how far” can it scale in a real world scenario, you might ask? Earlier this year, we wrote about the Fleet benchmark tool and we made a few discoveries that were very instructive, especially concerning resource consumption and its impact on deployments’ performances.

KubeCon Atlanta 2025 & the AI-Native Shift

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta marked a definitive moment for cloud-native infrastructure. Over four days, celebrating the 10th anniversary of both CNCF and Kubernetes, more than 9,000 attendees witnessed the ecosystem’s evolution from container orchestration to AI-native operations. The conference delivered a clear message – AI workloads are no longer experimental.

Building Trust in AI-Powered Kubernetes Ops: Why "Good Enough" Is a Production Killer

The air in the operations world is thick with AI and LLMs. EVERY vendor is rushing to slap an “AI-powered” badge on their product. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: In high-stakes Kubernetes operations, one bad AI recommendation can destroy months of trust-building in an instant. We aren’t building a chatbot to suggest recipes. We are building systems that, armed with kubectl permissions, have the potential to take down production with a single, wrong command.

Setting Up a Windows VM on Cycle

In the last few months we've made some changes to VMs that finally allow installing and running Windows on them. MS Paint on Cycle is finally a reality. To make Windows VMs work, we had to add a few things to the platform to support it. As always with Windows, there are some quirks, gotchas, and pain points. But in the guide below, I'll show you how we solved these issues in our recent platform update, and how to install and run a Windows Server 2025 VM on Cycle with full network connectivity.