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Ship Logs from Docker with the Logz.io Fluentd Proxy

The past year has been significant for continued development of both DevOps practices and new developments across the open source community. To that end, Logz.io is moving forward with renewed support for the Fluentd log shipper. This new proxy will serve as an alternative to Filebeat and Logstash, which recently moved away from open source licensing. Additionally, this integration utilizes an HTTP proxy instead of the SOCKS5 proxy necessary for Filebeat.

Code with Codespaces and deploy with Qovery

12 years ago, when I started to work as a Developer, I would not have bet that I will write software and manage infrastructure right from my browser one day. At the time, web IDE did not exist. And managing infrastructure from the browser was super early. Today, it is all possible, and the future looks bright! I am proud to announce that you can edit your code via GitHub Codespaces right from Qovery. Take a look at this short introduction video. Happy coding!

Gloo Edge - A simple way to manage API on Kubernetes - Civo Online Meetup #11

Join us as Civo's own Saiyam Pathak alongside Kamesh Sampath (Field Engineer, Solo.io) will be discussing Gloo Edge, Gateway API and API management on Kubernetes. Gloo Edge is a cloud-native API Gateway and Ingress Controller built on Envoy Proxy to facilitate and secure application traffic at the edge. We'll be covering the management and deployment if your API gateway with Gloo, plus how to set up and manage your APIs in less than 3 minutes!

Kubernetes in 2021: Where does the industry go next?

As software code complexity and volume increases, businesses are flocking to containerization as a scalable solution to accelerate development of new applications. At Civo, we are always led by the community. We are firm believers in making sure that the voices of developers are always heard, and that they should shape how Kubernetes continues to evolve. To that end, we recently undertook some research to better understand cloud developers’ opinions about Kubernetes and containers, particularly what factors were encouraging or discouraging its use across the enterprise.

Use Case: Improving Developer Experience with Data Science

Qovery is a continuous deployment platform. Users deploy apps of all kinds, written in any language and framework they choose. The freedom users have come with a cost for the Qovery core team - the broad scope Qovery has to cover, makes it harder to make the deployment process stable and straightforward for everybody. It's easy to create a service focused on just one language or framework - supporting all of them requires considering many more factors.

Prometheus monitoring with Sysdig

Prometheus is the de-facto standard for monitoring Kuberentes and cloud-native applications. However, as your Prometheus environment grows, it gets more and more complicated to use and maintain. Prometheus exporters need to be selected, installed, configured, and updated. And PromQL has a steep learning curve. How can you focus on your business, instead of building a monitoring solution?

Kubernetes observability challenges in cloud-native architecture

Kubernetes is the de-facto platform for orchestrating containerized workloads and microservices, which are the building blocks of cloud-native applications. Kubernetes workloads are highly dynamic, ephemeral, and are deployed on a distributed and agile infrastructure. Although the benefits of cloud-native applications managed by Kubernetes are plenty, Kubernetes presents a new set of observability challenges in cloud-native applications. Let’s consider some observability challenges.

GitOps Workshop

On August 11th, 2021, we conducted a workshop to discuss implementing a GitOps workflow using ArgoCD, Crossplane, and Shipa. We were overwhelmed by the hundreds of people who registered for the session. We believe it shows a few important challenges have to be solved for GitOps to become mainstream across different enterprises. While GitOps brings many benefits, we often see teams facing challenges.