21 posts tagged with "Kubernetes"

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!

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.

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.

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.

We love HashiCorp’s Terraform, but have one big reservation with how it gets used in ways that don’t respect proper GitOps practices. Most notably, the requirement that your system-level changes are handled in code and peer reviewed, with fully-auditable results.

Secret-scattering.

This phrase might conjure up an image of childhood games or harmless pranks, but for the Kubefirst team, it’s how we describe a practice that hamstrings even the most well-meaning engineering teams.

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.