This is it, the moment you were all waiting for. Our most ambitious release in kubefirst’s history. The next steps in a glorious Kubernetes journey! You guessed it; the addition of physical multi-clusters and virtual clusters support.

Since the creation of kubefirst in 2017, the company has made gigantic strides in the cloud native space, constantly making it easier to create production-ready Kubernetes clusters. The team has grown and the project has seen major releases, now providing a great experience right out of the box: your own GitOps-based Kubernetes cluster production-ready with the open source tools you like.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use our CLI to deploy a new Kubernetes cluster in minutes, with the most popular cloud native tools running on your machine. We will deploy a new cluster locally, and we will explore some of its most useful features. With our new functional cluster containing already a lot of goodies, you will learn a bit more about the GitOps principles with your new "source of truth repository”, use Terraform with Atlantis to create new repositories within your management cluster, add a new user in HashiCorp Vault using code only, surf the Argo CD sync waves, and master the magic steps to deploy a new application in the cloud.

You probably know it by now, but we are big fans of Civo. It was the first cloud we supported right after AWS. Until now, you were able to create a new cluster with all the kubefirst goodies on Civo using our CLI, or the UI installation, but we didn’t stop there: you can now use the Civo Marketplace to install kubefirst!

We started kubefirst back in 2019 with a mission to provide the world with free instant kubernetes software delivery and infrastructure management platforms. When we decided to open source kubefirst in 2021, a new metric became incredibly relevant to us - the GitHub star.

It started as an internal hackathon idea, we teased you about it in past livestreams, and it’s finally here: kubefirst now has a GitOps Catalog. Faithful to our goal to make Kubernetes adoption, and usage easier, this new catalog will make your life even better when it comes to adding new applications or tooling to your cluster while respecting the GitOps principles.

There's a new team emerging in your nearby cloud native software shops - the platform team - and their practice is placed squarely in gap between Infrastructure as Code and the Internal Developer Platform that's being built to support software delivery at scale.

With this release, we are setting the foundation for the soon-to-be multi-clusters feature. By doing so, we introduced a more visual, and interactive way to create new management clusters. There are now more ways for you to create a management cluster, and have fun while doing so. It may not seem like much for a new release at first, but the engineering team was hard at work: they decoupled the logic from the CLI to create a shared library that also implements an API which will give us a consistent user experience. Read more to know how to jump the fun wagon, and swim in the new user experience.

Of the many building blocks that go into deploying successfully to a Kubernetes cluster, it’s hard to get more essential than Argo CD. When you use it as part of your deployment workflow, it becomes the “puppetmaster” for getting all your applications and clusters into your desired state.