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Dev Containers Made Easy: Meet DevPod!

In this session from Civo Navigate Europe 2024 Hrittik Roy introduces DevPod, the open-source tool that empowers developers to create and manage their development environments effortlessly. Hrittik will guide you through the benefits of using DevPod, including cost savings and avoiding vendor lock-in, all while remaining compatible with popular IDEs like VS Code. Join us for a quick demo with Civo that showcases how DevPod helps developers and teams standardize their environments and streamline their workflows.

From Zero to Hero in AI: My Serverless LLM Adventure!

In this Civo Navigate 2024 session, Engin Diri shares his unexpected journey into managing Open-Source Large Language Models (LLMs) in a cloud infrastructure setting. Discover the three key strategies he proposed to clients, weighing the pros and cons of each approach. Engin also addresses the challenges faced along the way and the solutions implemented to overcome them.

Smooth Sailing to Amazon EKS: How Cortex Scorecards Simplify Your Kubernetes Migration

Migrating a Kubernetes cluster from a self-hosted environment to Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) offers considerable operational benefits—but this transition also brings challenges in reliability, compliance, and observability. By leveraging Cortex Scorecards, teams gain clear insights and structured benchmarks to simplify and improve the migration process. Here’s how Cortex Scorecards can make your EKS migration efficient and resilient.

Transform Your Development Game: Focus on Workloads Over Infrastructure!

In this session from Civo Navigate Europe 2024, Will Stewart, CEO of North Flank, reveals the secrets to transforming your development process by shifting focus from infrastructure to workloads. Discover how this revolutionary approach can help developers bypass the complexities of infrastructure management and prioritize delivering valuable features.

Creating alerts from panels in Kubernetes Monitoring: an overlooked, powerhouse feature

As a product manager here at Grafana Labs, I’ve learned that sometimes the most powerful features can sneak by unnoticed, buried in those three little dots off to the side of the panel. But what happens when one of those hidden gems suddenly becomes the star of the show? Recently, we released a new Kubernetes Monitoring feature in Grafana Cloud—an alert system you can use to create alerts from panels in the app.

3 Reasons Why This Startup Migrated From Clever Cloud to Scaleway Kapsule

Making infrastructure decisions can feel like a high-stakes puzzle: finding the right balance between technical capabilities, cost efficiency, and ease of management is no small feat. Recently, a company switched from Clever Cloud to Scaleway Kapsule (Kubernetes), with Qovery orchestrating its transition. Here’s what drove this change and how it’s paid off.

Azure Kubernetes Service Pricing: Complete Guide to Optimizing AKS Spend

Tired of managing your Kubernetes clusters all on your own? Don’t have the time to figure out how to deploy, run, and optimize usage? Azure has just the thing for you: Azure Kubernetes Services. This article will cover everything you need to know about Azure Kubernetes Services, how it works, what the Azure pricing will be, whether you should use it, and, if so, how to save on your cloud cost.

Kubernetes Migration: Tips and Best Practises

Are you considering migrating to Kubernetes but worried about the potential complexities? Well, you are not alone. Transitioning to Kubernetes brings unparalleled scalability and resilience for containerized applications, but it also introduces technical challenges that can overwhelm unprepared teams. Let's go through proven strategies to make the Kubernetes migration journey smoother, from planning and dependency mapping to using automation tools that reduce errors.