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Kubefirst and Civo Join Forces

· 4 min read
John Dietz
CEO of Konstruct, Director of Enterprise Cloud Solutions at Civo

Kubefirst and Civo Join Forces

I'm excited to share that Kubefirst has been acquired and will be joining the Civo family in our shared mission to simplify cloud computing complexities. This acquisition will bring together two incredible engineering forces, fostering innovation and collaboration in cloud computing and the platform engineering space. Our partnership will strengthen our team and operational posture so we can meet the needs of our growing community, client base, and technology partners.

How to get a GitOps cluster in 20 minutes with Civo - part 3

· 8 min read
Frédéric Harper
Head of Developer Relations, Kubefirst

How to get a GitOps cluster in 20 minutes with Civo - part 3

Welcome to the third and last part of this series on how to get a GitOps cluster in 20 minutes with Civo. The first article was about preparing for the magic to happen, and creating a production-ready management cluster with multi-cluster support. In the second one, we explored a little of the new cluster you created, and all its tools so you don’t navigate in unknown water. In this blog post, I’ll guide you toward some ways you can customize your new cluster, going from GitOps, to using our beautiful interface.

How to get a GitOps cluster in 20 minutes with Civo - part 2

· 6 min read
Frédéric Harper
Head of Developer Relations, Kubefirst

How to get a GitOps cluster in 20 minutes with Civo - part 2

Welcome to the second part of this series on how to get a GitOps cluster in 20 minutes with Civo. The first article was about preparing for the magic to happen, and creating a production-ready management cluster with multi-cluster support. In this blog post, I’ll guide you toward some of the main pieces of your new Kubernetes platform, so you slowly get to know the features, benefits, and power of kubefirst. Without further ado, let’s jump right in the heart of the subject.

How to get a GitOps cluster in 20 minutes with Civo - part 1

· 8 min read
Frédéric Harper
Head of Developer Relations, Kubefirst

How to get a GitOps cluster in 20 minutes with Civo - part 1

So you need to create a new Kubernetes cluster with all the (useful) bells and whistles like a Continuous Delivery (CD) tool, something to manage the applications’ secrets, and much, much more just to be able to deploy your application. We hear you, it’s a question of days, probably weeks even if you have the proper experience, and did exactly this before. Do not worry, we got you covered with kubefirst: you’ll be able to create a new management cluster with physical and virtual cluster management capabilities in only 20 minutes. Follow this step-by-step tutorial to know how.

Install kubefirst Directly From the Civo Marketplace

· 5 min read
Frédéric Harper
Head of Developer Relations, Kubefirst

Install kubefirst Directly From the Civo Marketplace

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!

kubefirst 2.0 Adds Civo, GitLab, UX++ & More

· 7 min read
Frédéric Harper
Head of Developer Relations, Kubefirst

kubefirst 2.0 Adds Civo, GitLab, UX++ & More

It’s been a while since we released a new version of our CLI, but it's for a good reason: we were working hard on 2.0. We are really excited to share with you the new major release of the kubefirst platform, which includes a lot of new goodies! For those of you that are new with us, kubefirst delivers instant GitOps platforms so you can have the most popular open source platform tools working together in minutes.