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Kubernetes Service Mesh Focus - Civo Community Meetup #8

This time around the topic was Kubernetes service meshes and the role they play in providing visibility and open communication between your pods/containers. Saiyam Pathak, Director of Technical Evangelism at Civo, will be led the talk and discussed the concept of service meshes and best practices. Kai Hoffman, Developer Advocate at Civo, outlined the Service Mesh Interface, a project to standardise service mesh specifications on Kubernetes.

April Online Meetup - Hypper: Dependency-aware package management for Kubernetes

Introducing Hypper, a new package manager for Kubernetes designed with cluster administrators in mind. Hypper is built on Helm and charts but makes some different assumptions around multi-tenancy and dependent charts (which can be useful with CRD handling). Where Helm assumes a user could be one of many users running in multi-tenant, Hypper assumes the user is a cluster administrator managing a cluster.

Time Series Meetup: Monitoring Your ISP Using InfluxDB Cloud and Raspberry Pi

Virtual Time Series Meetups are events for everyone who is passionate or curious about time series data and how it can be used. In the April 2021 edition, Mirko D. Comparetti shares how he use InfluxDB to monitoring his internet service provider.

Civo Online Meetup #7 - Kubernetes security focus

Four our seventh online meetup, we discussed the critical topic of cloud-native security, focusing on Kubernetes. We looked into security of clusters, containers and code as well as explore some applications that help make sure your setups are secure. With talks from Civo Director of Evangelism Saiyam, plus Civo Ambassadors Jahred Love and Milind Chawre. Get free credit to try the world’s first K3s-powered, managed Kubernetes service.

Rancher Online Meetup - March 2021 - Rancher KIM

Introducing Rancher KIM, the Kubernetes Image Manager. KIM is a proper Kubernetes client that installs and manages the back-end services required to support its focus on delivering a `docker build` (and related image management) compatible experience to your development workflow. This means you can download the KIM executable for your client platform and run `kim build --tag your/image:tag .`, just as you would invoke `docker build`, and have the image immediately available on your single-node K3s cluster. There's no need to push the image to an external repository nor export it to a tarball and then import it into K3s containerd.

Civo: The story so far and our vision for the future - Mark Boost

Our CEO Mark Boost looks back at the Civo story so far, and our vision beyond the KUBE100 beta. Taken from our Online Meetup #6 session where we discussed our plans for ending the KUBE100 beta in the coming months, plus some of the exciting recent developments and future features we have in the works. Get free credit to try the world’s first K3s-powered, managed Kubernetes service.

Rancher Online Meetup - Feb 2020 - Longhorn 1.1 and Rancher

Join Rancher and SUSE at our next global meetup where we focus on the latest release from of CNCF Sandbox project Longhorn and its benefits for Rancher users. When used with Rancher, Longhorn 1.1 provides Kubernetes users with a reliable Kubernetes-native persistent storage solution from core to cloud to edge. This meetup will be hosted by Adrian Goins (Director of Community, SUSE). You will also hear directly from Sheng Yang (Principal Developer, Longhorn) and William Jimenez (Product Manager, Longhorn).

Rancher Online Meetup: January 2021 - k3d: Local Development with K3s Made Easy

In this meetup we'll show you how to get productive developing locally on Kubernetes with the help of k3d which lets you spin up a K3s cluster on your laptop. We'll guide you through a full development setup including the k3d CLI, the awesome new vscode-k3d plugin and synergy with tools like Skaffold or Tilt.