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Why cloud repatriation is happening now

Cloud first was gospel for a decade. But the calculus has changed, and organisations are asking harder questions about where their workloads actually belong. In this clip, Civo Product Director Russ Smith breaks down the four forces that have converged to shift the default: spiralling bills that are no longer defensible at scale, the Broadcom acquisition that detonated VMware pricing overnight, sovereignty becoming a boardroom procurement requirement, and AI making new hardware brutally expensive.

Save the Address, Save the Cloud (KubeVirt VM Migration Story)

Kubernetes is built for containers, and it’s been doing that since it used to run docker as an engine for its containers. But what if you want to add VMs to the mix? After all, containers are ephemeral and don’t require fixed IPs as they shift the identity toward labels, but VMs on the other hand are tied to IP addresses and in some cases MAC addresses. This brings us to this blog about VM migration and IP preservation.

Apple Container Machine: A Persistent Linux VM Inside macOS

A year ago, at WWDC 2025, Apple open-sourced container — a Swift-based CLI for running Linux containers on macOS, built on the Containerization framework and Apple's Virtualization.framework. The Apple container model is genuinely different from Docker Desktop's single shared Linux VM: every container gets its own lightweight VM. It matured out of preview and shipped its first stable 1.0.0 release on June 9, 2026.

Is your data truly yours? Why data sovereignty in India matters more than ever

As businesses in India embrace the cloud, a critical question looms: Where does your data really live, and who controls it? India's cloud market is estimated at USD 26.43 billion in 2026, growing at 21% annually with projections reaching USD 68.82 billion by 2031. This rapid expansion underscores the strategic importance of cloud infrastructure in the country, but with growth comes growing urgency.

How do you run AI when your data can't leave the network?

Highly classified environment. Strict compliance requirements. Data that can't leave the network. But still a real need for the competitive advantage AI delivers. Civo Director of Enterprise Cloud Solutions John Dietz addresses exactly that challenge and how Konstruct makes it possible to run Kubernetes, deploy your own models, and point Claude Code at your own internal private servers instead of public APIs.

DevOps with Kubernetes: How to Reduce Cluster Toil and Complexity

Has Kubernetes made your DevOps team faster, or just busier? Most teams adopt it for speed and portability, and they get both. What arrives with it is a quieter cost: the operational weight of running the cluster day to day. That weight shows up in the manual work the platform was supposed to eliminate. A resource limit set incorrectly can waste infrastructure for months.

Six AI agent SDKs for enterprise Kubernetes, compared

There’s a question we hear constantly from platform and engineering leaders right now, “which agent SDK should we standardize on for our Kubernetes clusters?” The honest answer is that the question is slightly wrong, and the rest of this post explains why. But it’s a fair question, so let’s compare the contenders first.