Spiraling costs are causing organizations to look for ways to reduce their monthly spend – hidden charges and unexpected bills are surprises that CFOs can no longer afford. With current costs from hyperscaler cloud providers skyrocketing, many are now asking whether going cloud-native is the right move for them. There are, however, a number of tips and tricks that you can action today that will help you reduce your cloud bill at any provider.

Over the years, open source has become a way of working that allows people to modify and share designs to inspect, alter, and enhance source code. This has led to a range of benefits for users of open source, such as having more control over software, better security, more stability, and an inspired community. Last year, Mark Boost, CEO at Civo, spoke with OpenUK as part of their yearly report to discover the UK’s journey with open source.

As engineers, we tend to pride ourselves on building a production-first mindset and operational excellence. According to a recent survey, 74% of executives believe that AI will deliver more efficient business processes, while 55% think that AI will help develop new business models and create new products and services. However, the reality is that 85% of ML projects fail to deliver, and 53% of machine learning prototypes don't make it to production.

Ever since UK regulator Ofcom announced its market study into the cloud industry in 2022, there has been cautious optimism about whether this could be a genuine moment of truth for the hyperscalers. On 5 April 2023, we got our answer. In its interim report, Ofcom did not hold back in its criticism of the dominance that the hyperscalers, especially AWS and Microsoft, hold over the industry and the limits and even “harm” this creates for customers.

Kubernetes has become the go-to container orchestration system for many organizations. But managing Kubernetes clusters can take time and effort, especially for smaller teams or organizations with limited resources. This is where focused Kubernetes distributions like K3s and Talos Linux come in. They offer simplified and streamlined versions of Kubernetes, making it easier to deploy and manage clusters. This blog will introduce you to K3s and Talos Linux and compare their features and capabilities.

Over time, Kubernetes has become a household name for container orchestration as organizations aim to streamline complex processes. With its rapidly growing popularity and convenient ecosystem, many organizations started using it to manage their applications and workloads. But what exactly is it, and how did it come into existence?

With the need for cloud computing and cloud-native technologies, many businesses are moving workloads to the cloud. Hence, there will be a need for a cloud service provider. This blog will cover the steps to choosing the perfect cloud provider and how a multi-cloud approach can reduce costs. In our meetup with Mark Boost, Dinesh Majrekar, and Saiyam Pathak, they discussed the current state of the cloud industry, why costs are so high, how to reduce your spending, and looking at how Civo can help.

Our CTO Andy Jeffries explains how k3s by Rancher Labs differs from regular Kubernetes (k8s). Since we launched the world’s first k3s powered, managed Kubernetes service – we’ve had a lot of questions from our members on what the differences are between k3s and k8s (full blown Kubernetes), aside from the choice from each on how to capitalise a "K" (or not).

Security in the cloud has become an increasingly important topic over the years, with the move to more managed services, additional trust is being handed over to cloud providers. With this being said, we must begin to pay closer attention to the security surrounding cloud computing, especially when it comes to Kubernetes. Join me as I explore the concept of confidential computing and a new use case we at Civo have been working on related to the Kubernetes control plane in managed clusters.

Nowadays, when most people think about the term “machine learning,” they think of advanced, refined applications such as Chat-GPT, the chatbot-based deep learning text generator, or AlphaGo, the computer program that’s currently the “world's best player” of the board game Go.