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2025

  • Build an Open Source Kubernetes GitOps Platform, Part 2
  • Build an Open Source Kubernetes GitOps Platform, Part 1

2024

  • What a year it has been at Konstruct
  • See you at KubeCon next week
  • Automate your bare metal data center with Colony

Kubefirst v1.9 Release Notes

September 30, 2022 · 7 min read
John Dietz
John Dietz
CEO of Konstruct, Director of Enterprise Cloud Solutions at Civo

Kubefirst v1.9 Release Notes

Kubefirst 1.9 - The GitHub Release​

The Kubefirst 1.9 Release has been a long-awaited feature set for the Kubefirst project. Kubefirst has leveraged and loved self-hosted GitLab for years. If self-hosting your git provider is part of your strategic vision, you really can’t do any better. However GitHub’s incredible popularity and stronghold in many organizations is undeniable and we’re extremely excited to announce that our same great self-hosted cloud native platform now supports GitHub as a git provider.

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How Kubefirst Builds K8s Platforms in 8 Steps

September 22, 2022 · 12 min read
John Dietz
John Dietz
CEO of Konstruct, Director of Enterprise Cloud Solutions at Civo

How Kubefirst Builds K8s Platforms in 8 Steps

An Open Source Approach to Self Hosting a GitOps Platform​

Kubernetes is one of the most transformative open source projects in the history of computing. It provides a straightforward framework for running software in containers and provides simple solutions to all of the complexities that arise from microservice architectures: load balancing, autoscaling, high availability, resource pooling, application inventory, configuration, fault tolerance, and observability. It also abstracts your software architecture from your cloud, allowing you to pick up your complex solution and run it in another cloud provider with very little impact to your software ecosystem.

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Taming the CNCF Landscape with Kubefirst

August 23, 2022 · 5 min read
John Dietz
John Dietz
CEO of Konstruct, Director of Enterprise Cloud Solutions at Civo

Kubeshop sponsored this post.

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Kubefirst v1.8 Release Announcement

August 5, 2022 · 6 min read
John Dietz
John Dietz
CEO of Konstruct, Director of Enterprise Cloud Solutions at Civo

Kubefirst v1.8 Release Announcement

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  • Release
  • Kubernetes
  • Open Source
  • Cloud Native
  • GitOps
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Kubeshop Acquires Kubefirst GitOps Infrastructure & App Delivery Platform

July 21, 2022 · 3 min read
John Dietz
John Dietz
CEO of Konstruct, Director of Enterprise Cloud Solutions at Civo

Kubeshop Acquires Kubefirst GitOps Infrastructure & App Delivery Platform

The Story of Kubefirst​

In 2017, John Dietz and Jared Edwards met while working together on a cloud engineering team at a real estate big data startup. They were tasked with building an infrastructure management platform and application delivery system built entirely on Kubernetes.

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