11 posts tagged with "Cloud Native"

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.

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.

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.

If you are in the cloud native space, you know about the flagship event from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, KubeCon: it’s the place to be for all Kubernetes enthusiasts out there. Being ourselves pods, and clusters aficionados, we will definitely be in Chicago for the next edition of the North American conference happening next week.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When folks try out Kubefirst and join our community for the first time, they tend to fall into two categories. First, there are those inside of established organizations, which are balancing their older technology with their ambition to adopt the cloud native landscape. Second, we have technical co-founders and early engineers at youthful startups, who just need to make that leap from “my application runs on localhost” to having development/staging/production Kubernetes environments.

My buddy Jared and I started kubefirst because cloud native platforms take too long to build from scratch. Well, as it turns out, solving that problem also takes a long time - it took us years to mature our instant cloud native platform to the point where we could build a team around it to see the vision through. Over the course of those years, you could pretty regularly find Jared and me on a zoom late at night, waiting for some cloud resources to provision, often killing that time daydreaming about what it would be like to have our platform on the KubeCon floor. Last week, that daydream was realized as our newly acquired project and freshly built team at Kubeshop traveled to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA in Detroit.