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Orchestrating Kubernetes with Terraform: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Your Container Empire

When Terraform and Kubernetes work in tandem, Terraform can define and configure resources within a Kubernetes cluster using its declarative configuration language, encompassing various elements. Explore further with Control Plane.

Kubernetes Unpacked: Embracing GitOps & Best-Practice Tools with Kubefirst

Dive into the world of Kubernetes in our upcoming meetup with Kai Hoffman (Developer Advocate at Civo), Frédéric Harper (Principal Developer Advocate at Kubefirst), and John Dietz (Co-founder of Kubefirst). This session will commence with a presentation on the symbiotic relationship between Kubernetes and GitOps. Delve into the history and evolution of Kubernetes best practices and discover how Kubefirst packages these principles, offering developers a streamlined toolkit of open-source, well-documented, and supported resources.

How we Chartered a Course to Helm's Success with CNCF with Matt Butcher - Navigate Europe 23

Join Matt Butcher, one of the original creators of Helm. Dive into the journey of Helm, from its early days as a small hackathon project at a startup in Boulder, Colorado, to becoming a pivotal tool in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Matt speaks about the challenges, technical hurdles, and the strategic decisions that shaped Helm, including its integration with CNCF and the significant transition from Helm 2 to Helm 3.

Future of GitOps by Kubefirst's John Dietz at KubeCon NA 23 - Civo TV

Join John Dietz of KubeFirst at KubeCon NA 23, as he delves into the future of GitOps. Discover how Kubernetes is evolving beyond just running applications to managing infrastructure. Learn about the latest advancements in cluster management with KubeFirst's release 2.3, integrating Crossplane and Terraform, and how these innovations can benefit your organization.

Your guide to better incident status pages

Your status page (or lack thereof) has the opportunity to signal a lot about your brand — how transparent you are, how quickly you respond to incidents, how you communicate with your customers — and ultimately, this all seriously impacts your reliability. After all, as our CEO Robert put it in a recent interview on the SRE Path podcast, you don’t get to decide your reliability; your customers do.

Common Problems with Container Platforms

Containers are nearly ubiquitous in software these days. Outside of abstractions like fully managed services (RDS, Dynamo, Cloud SQL), everything engineering teams are responsible for, mostly, land in containers. For many, deciding what platform to run those containers on is a burning question. Choosing the wrong container management solution can be a real headache.

Explore Azure Integration Environments and Business Process Tracking in Public Preview

As we know, Microsoft Ignite is one of the premier conferences that developers and IT enthusiasts look forward to every year and it just concluded leaving the global audience all excited about the new capabilities that they can leverage while building innovative solutions. This edition was remarkable, with over 100+ announcements covering a range of topics from Windows and Microsoft 365 to Azure.

Networks in 2030: How service providers can plan for success

By 2030, the world will look very different, not in the least because of new technological innovations. Many will expect to see a proliferation of next-generation technological solutions from smart cities, to augmented reality, to autonomous cars, to the metaverse. Service providers have a role to play in ensuring that the underlying network that we have across the UK (and beyond) has the capacity and scalability to support these solutions.

Azure Savings Plan vs Reserved Instances

In the world of cloud computing, Azure is a leading player, offering a wide range of services for businesses of all sizes. As organizations continue to migrate their workloads to the cloud, cost management becomes a critical aspect of their strategy. Two key options for optimizing costs on Azure are Azure Savings Plans and Reserved Instances (RIs). In this blog, we will explore the differences between these two cost-saving mechanisms and help you decide which one is right for your organization.