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Since the beginning, our community has been at the forefront of what we do. Over the years, we have been able to highlight the knowledge and talent of our community by showcasing tutorials submitted to us via Write For Us. As we reach the end of 2022, we wanted to highlight some of our top guides from the Civo community that were published throughout the year.

Continuous Delivery (CD) frameworks for Kubernetes, like the one created by Rancher with Fleet, are quite robust and easy to implement. Still, there are some rough edges you should pay attention to. Jobs deployment is one of those scenarios where things may not be straightforward, so you may need to stop and think about the best way to process them. We’ll explain here the challenges you may face and will give some tips about how to overcome them.

Spring Cloud and Kubernetes both complement each other to build a cloud native platform and run microservices on the Kubernetes containers. Kubernetes provides many features which are similar to Spring Cloud and Spring Config Server features. Spring framework has been around for many years. Even today, many organizations prefer to go with Spring libraries because it provides many features. It's a great deal when developers have total control over cloud configuration along with business logic source code.

Productive, scalable, and cost-effective, cloud infrastructure empowers innovation and faster deliverables. It’s a no-brainer why organizations are migrating to the cloud and containerizing their applications. As businesses scale their cloud infrastructure, they cannot be bottlenecked by security concerns. One way to release these bottlenecks and free up resources is by using automation.

Epinio is a Kubernetes-powered application development engine. Adding Epinio to your cluster creates your own platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution in which you can deploy apps without setting up infrastructure yourself. Epinio abstracts away the complexity of Kubernetes so you can get back to writing code. Apps are launched by pushing their source directly to the platform, eliminating complex CD pipelines and Kubernetes YAML files.

Containers have fast become one of the most efficient ways of virtually deploying applications, offering more agility than a virtual machine (VM) can typically provide. Both containers and VMs are great tools for managing resources and application deployment, but what is the difference between the two, and how do we manage containers?

In September, we announced that Steve Wozniak will be joining us at Civo Navigate to discuss his time at Apple and share his thoughts on the future of technology. Grab your tickets for Civo Navigate today! We also hosted the Cloud Native Community meetup in Florida where we had talks from Mark Boost, CEO at Civo, Kunal Kushwaha, Dev Rel Manager at Civo, and a guest speaker from Defense.com speaking about security.

As Kubernetes monitoring continues to standardize on Prometheus as a form factor, more and more developers are becoming familiar with Prometheus’ built-in query language, PromQL. Besides being bundled with Prometheus, PromQL is popular for being a simple yet expressive language for querying time series data. It’s been fully adopted by the community, with lots of great query repositories, sample playbooks, and trainings for PromQL available online.