Civo's KubeCon North America 2021 Roundup

we feel we punched above our weight in our presence at KubeCon: No fewer than four Civo staff members spoke at sessions, which are now available for anyone to watch! We'll be detailing these below, along with our picks of the rest of the event | Continue reading


@civo.com | 2 years ago

Frankfurt Region Now Live

We’re happy to announce that our new mainland Europe datacenter region in Frankfurt, Germany is now live and ready for use by all Civo customers. | Continue reading


@civo.com | 2 years ago

Kubernetes in 2021: Where does the industry go next?

Our recent research suggests complexity is slowing down adoption of containers for businesses. How can the Kubernetes community buck this trend? | Continue reading


@civo.com | 2 years ago

Using Civo Kubernetes to Gamify Twitter with Prometheus and Grafana

An inspirational post to explain the journey and thoughts behind gamifying a Twitter banner that automatically shows follower count in a Grafana graph | Continue reading


@civo.com | 2 years ago

Civo going Public on May 4th, Giving K3s Cluster under 2 min

Feature-packed, managed Kubernetes built for speed and simplicity, with K3s under the hood. We make Kubernetes work for you, not slow you down. | Continue reading


@civo.com | 3 years ago

New year, New York, new CivoStack

We announce the long-awaited custom Civo platform, that we're calling CivoStack. Built from the ground up to serve cloud-native computing needs, it is a Kubernetes-based platform for the future. | Continue reading


@civo.com | 3 years ago

HashiCorp Waypoint – End to end demo from Code to Kubernetes in minutes

This guide will be exploring Waypoint from Hashicorp, how to use it, and setup on Civo with a demo | Continue reading


@civo.com | 3 years ago

A free 3-10 nodes Kubernetes cluster

Experience blazing fast cloud servers with a developer-friendly API, plus our commitment to deliver the features you need. | Continue reading


@civo.com | 3 years ago

K3s Use Cases – How K3s Can Save You Time and Resources

We have made much of why we went with Rancher’s k3s to underpin Civo’s managed Kubernetes service but I wanted to take a bit of a deeper dive into k3s and why in particular it is a great technological choice | Continue reading


@civo.com | 4 years ago

GitOps Using Helm3 and Flux for an Node.js and Express.js Microservice

In this tutorial I'll show you how to build a GitOps pipeline for a Node.js application built with Express.js. The application was created in an earlier tutorial named: Guide to Helm 3 With an Express.js Microservice. | Continue reading


@civo.com | 4 years ago

Our Top Kubernetes and Cloud Native Guides for 2019

Our Top 10 Kubernetes and Cloud Native Guides For 2019: The 10 best Kubernets and Cloud Native guides of the year | Continue reading


@civo.com | 4 years ago

Building a CRUD API with Postgresl and Node.js with OpenFaaS

In this guide you will learn how to create a CRUD API using Postgresql for storage, Node.js for application code, and OpenFaaS to automate Kubernetes. | Continue reading


@civo.com | 4 years ago

Get a TLS Certificate for Your Kubernetes App with Cert-Manager

In this learn guide we will obtain a free TLS certificate LetsEncrypt for an application we have running on our Kubernetes cluster. The sample application will be written in Node.js using the popular microservices framework Express.js. | Continue reading


@civo.com | 4 years ago

Managed K3s – The Story So Far

On an unassuming afternoon on Wednesday the 18th September, we launched a world’s first! A k3s-powered, managed Kubernetes service. We were in for a ride... | Continue reading


@civo.com | 4 years ago

Cloud-Native Stateful Storage for Kubernetes with Rancher Longhorn

The big gorillas in our industry (such as Google and Amazon) have custom systems with their own scalable storage solutions to plug in, but what about for the dev clusters, the small shops, the tinkerers... | Continue reading


@civo.com | 4 years ago

Kubernetes: K8s vs. Rancher K3s

Since opening our #KUBE100 beta we've had a lot of questions from our members on what the differences are between full-blown Kubernetes (K8s) and k3s, aside from the choice from each on how to capitalise a "K" (or not). | Continue reading


@civo.com | 4 years ago

Multi-node Kubernetes on Civo in 5 minutes – flat!

Kubernetes on Civo in 5 minutes - flat! | Continue reading


@civo.com | 4 years ago

Use Restic to Backup to Minio or S3

Use Civo's cloud servers with Minio and Restic to securely back up your computer | Continue reading


@civo.com | 4 years ago

Deploy Your VM Applications to Civo with GitOps

Learn how to apply the principles of GitOps to deploy a static website with Nginx to an instance on Civo. At the end of the guide we'll have a GitOps pipeline using GitHub and Travis, Civo will provide the infrastructure. | Continue reading


@civo.com | 4 years ago

Deploy OpenFaaS with K3s on Civo

Get started with Serverless with Kubernetes (k3s) and OpenFaaS. You'll get an account for Civo's cloud, provision a new VM, install k3s and then deploy OpenFaaS to start kicking the tires. | Continue reading


@civo.com | 4 years ago