Civo Meetups

Join our regular live meetups for insights into Civo, Kubernetes and the wider cloud native scene.

A tech event packed with talks and workshops focused on the cloud native landscape.

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Enterprise

The Cost of Cloud 2024: Navigating rising cloud spend and complexity

We delved into our latest white paper highlighting emerging trends and challenges in cloud economics with Mark Boost, Dinesh Majrekar, and Simon Hansford.

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Kubernetes

Beyond Booleans: How Feature Flags and OpenFeature Can Level Up Your Next Project

In this meetup, we explored a variety of creative ways to use feature flags in your projects.

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Kubernetes

Scaling AI workloads with Kubernetes

We explored the complexities involved and effective strategies for managing LLM/AI deployments on Kubernetes, focusing on cost-efficiency and scalability.

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Enterprise

Alternative options to VMware: An introduction to CivoStack Enterprise

Dinesh Majrekar, Henry Godwin, and Peter Seddon delved into the profound impact that the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom had on service providers and the ongoing challenges they faced.

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Kubernetes

Centralized Multi-Cluster Management and Operations

Watch back our webinar on centralized multi-cluster management and operations, during which we explored how to manage multiple clusters across various regions.

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Kubernetes

Service mesh and ingress controllers: Bringing the outside world in

We were joined by Flynn & Kai for a whirlwind tour of how service meshes interact with ingress controllers using the Linkerd service mesh with Emissary-ingress, NGINX, and Envoy Gateway.

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Kubernetes

Advancing Platform Engineering with Northflank and Civo

Dinesh Majrekar (CTO at Civo) and Will Stewart (Co-Founder & CEO at Northflank) explored the intricacies of building robust, scalable platforms using Northflank on Civo's cloud infrastructure.

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Kubernetes

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

Dive into the world of Kubernetes in our meetup with Kai Hoffman, Frédéric Harper, and John Dietz.

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Kubernetes

Mastering Multi-Cloud Management: Advanced Tagging, Expense Monitoring, and Resource Visualization

Join Saiyam Pathak (Field CTO at Civo) and Jake Page (Community Developer at Tailwarden) for a comprehensive discussion on how to take control of your multi-cloud environment by diving into advanced cloud tagging strategies.

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KubernetesCivo

The Evolution of DevOps with Modern Tooling

Narayan Sainaney (Codezero CTO) and Dinesh Majrekar (Civo CTO) discussed local development in a multi-cloud scenario with Civo and Codezero.

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Kubernetes

Maximizing Developer Efficiency with Civo and StackState

Dinesh Majrekar (CTO at Civo) and Andreas Prins (CEO of StackState) discussed how developers can maximize their developer efficiency through various tools and techniques.

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Kubernetes

Best Practices for Effective Monitoring and Observability

Matt Gibiec, Sr. Solutions Engineer at Dynatrace joined Kunal Kushwaha, Developer Relations Manager at Civo, to discuss the best practices for effective monitoring and observability and how this can be applied to your business.

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Kubernetes

Reduce your cloud spend

In this session, Mark Boost, Dinesh Majrekar, and Saiyam Pathak, will be discussing the current state of the cloud industry and why costs are so high, how to take steps to reduce your spend, and looking at how Civo can help.

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KubernetesDemo

Application Deployment to Civo with a Terraform Template

In this session our CTO, Dinesh Majrekar used a new terraform template repo to deploy a cluster, install an ingress and let-encrypt helm chart all from Terraform.

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MarketplaceCommunityDemoKubernetes

Kubernetes management with Portainer and Civo

For this meetup, we were joined by Portainer to look into how the container management platform can help simplify day-to-day Kubernetes management.

Saiyam Pathak avatar Adolfo Delorenzo avatar
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KubernetesCivo

The future of K3s and Kubernetes

In our roundtable panel, we discussed how the future of k3s is being shaped by the industry and examples of how we utilize k3s applications.

Dinesh Majrekar avatar Kunal Kushwaha avatar Kai Hoffman avatar David Fogle avatar
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CommunityKubernetesCivo

K8s monitoring and observability with ContainIQ

Matthew Lenhard, CTO at ContainIQ, joined us for a meetup about Kubernetes monitoring and observability, and using the Kubernetes events feed to enhance that monitoring.

Matthew Lenhard avatar Kai Hoffman avatar
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CommunityKubernetesDemo

Multi-cluster management and observability with KubeSphere

We were joined by Feynman Zhou and Felix Liu from the KubeSphere team who demonstrated how to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters and run multi-cluster applications with ease using KubeSphere.

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CommunityKubernetesDemo

Networking, security & observability with Cilium

Raymond de Jong, Senior Solutions Architect at Isovalent, was our guest as we explore Cilium - a BPF powered open-source Cloud Native Networking solution, providing security, observability, scalability, and superior performance.

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MarketplaceCommunityDemo

Connecting and securing microservices with EnRoute

In this meetup, we welcomed Chintan, founder of Saaras Inc, and Kunal Kushwaha, developer advocate at Civo, to discuss how to connect and secure your microservices in one step.

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CommunityDemoKubernetes

Debugging in production with Rookout

In this meetup, we welcomed Josh Hendrick from Rookout and David Fogle from Civo to discuss debugging within the Kubernetes landscape.

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CommunityKubernetesDemo

Preventing Kubernetes misconfigurations and deprecations with Datree

We were joined by Datree's Shimon Tolts and Civo's Kunal Kushwaha and as they talked about preventing Kubernetes misconfigurations and deprecations.

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Software development from anywhere with a dash of noyaml.com

We welcomed Philippe Charrière (Gitlab) and Geoffrey Huntley (Gitpod) for two talks on utilising Gitpod: A tool for spinning up automated development environments, in the cloud, for any task.

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DemoKubernetes

Automation In The Cloud: How Civo Uses Terraform

In this meetup Alex Jones, Principal Engineer at Civo, look at how Civo uses DRY methodology to create simple templates with isolated workspaces, showing how anyone can improve their terraform code longevity through a few simple techniques.

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MarketplaceCommunityKubernetes

The evolution of Chaos Engineering and Litmus Chaos

We were joined by Karthik Satchitanand, co-founder of Litmus Chaos to discuss why chaos testing is seen as a must for Cloud-Native practitioners in 2021, and how the introduction of LitmusChaos 2.0 evolves chaos engineering further.

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Gloo Edge - A simple way to manage API on Kubernetes

We were joined by Saiyam Pathak alongside Kamesh Sampath (Field Engineer, Solo.io) to discuss Gloo Edge and API management on Kubernetes.

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GitOps with Argo and Crossplane

In this meetup Viktor Farcic and Anaïs Urlichs explored Crossplane through the Civo Crossplane Provider.

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KubernetesCivoDemo

CSI Driver Internals and Writing a Kubernetes Operator From Scratch

We deep-dive into into the inner workings of our custom-built Kubernetes platform we call "CivoStack".

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KubernetesCommunityDemo

Kubernetes service mesh focus

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 avatar Kai Hoffman avatar Jason Morgan avatar
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KubernetesCommunity

Kubernetes security focus

For 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.

Saiyam Pathak avatar Milind Chawre avatar Jahred Love avatar
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KubernetesCivo

Beyond the KUBE100 beta

As we move towards the end of our Kubernetes beta and get ready to "go-live" we discuss some of the exciting recent developments and future plans.

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Kubernetes

K3s Internals: The crazy things we do to make k8s simple

Special guest Darren Shepherd, the creator of K3s, joined the Civo meetup to discuss K3s internals and answers questions from our community.

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KubernetesCommunity

Machine learning on Kubernetes + Open Policy Agent

In this edition of the community meetup we dived into Machine Learning and Open Policy Agent on Kubernetes.

Alex Jones avatar SUSE avatar Saiyam Pathak avatar
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KubernetesCommunityMarketplace

Focus on the Civo application market

This community meetup took a deeper look into how the Civo marketplace can improve your Kubernetes workflows. Featuring some cool apps to try out, and how you can easily get involved with contributing, growing, and ultimately improving the marketplace.

Saiyam Pathak avatar Kai Hoffman avatar Steve Miller avatar Jurgen Etzlstorfer avatar
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KubernetesCommunity

CI/CD and Kubernetes

For our second community meetup we focussed on using Civo for CI/CD through GitOps and Github actions for cloud native application development.

Andy Jeffries avatar Johannes Tegner avatar Sam Weston avatar Kai Hoffman avatar
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KubernetesCommunityCivo

Introducing Civo and Kubernetes-native development

The very first Civo Community Meetup is here! Episode #1 featured talks from Civo CTO Andy Jeffries and Developer Advocate Kai Hoffman, alongside #KUBE100 community members Saiyam Pathak and Alistair Hey.

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