I promised it to you, and it’s here: DigitalOcean is out of beta, which means it’s production-ready based on the high standards of the Kubefirst team! Not only that, it is the second cloud with full support for cluster lifecycle management of both physical and virtual Kubernetes clusters.
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.
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.
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.
The Kubefirst 1.11 release continues the momentum our recent introduction of kubefirst local. The local environment is a fully automated local kubernetes cluster and gitops platform that includes some of the best open source tools like argo cd, vault, terraform automated with Atlantis, argo workflows, and so much more all working together.
Adopting Kubernetes and cloud native can be difficult and time consuming. Kubefirst's mission is to change this by producing cloud native platforms that are preconfigured, operational, and fully-automated from a single command. Throughout our project's history, we've focused our efforts on Kubernetes environments in public clouds. With our kubefirst cluster create command, your empty cloud will transform into a self-hosted open-source cloud native ecosystem running workloads in production in minutes instead of the months it would take to build from scratch.
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.
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.