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How to build AI agents with n8n and relaxAI: Live webinar

You have the ideas, now learn how to turn them into production-ready AI agents. Join us on January 21st at 5:00 PM for a live webinar featuring Ben Norris, AI Engineer at Civo, and Sophia McKee, COO at Civo. We will demonstrate how to design, build, and deploy intelligent agents using n8n’s visual workflow automation platform, all powered by secure, UK-hosted infrastructure from relaxAI. You'll learn how to orchestrate tools, APIs, and LLMs to create scalable automations without needing deep coding expertise.

Site24x7's Kubernetes monitoring | Proactive, scalable, AI-powered

Kubernetes drives modern cloud-native applications, but its distributed nature creates visibility and performance challenges at scale. In this video, discover how Site24x7 provides real-time monitoring, AI-powered anomaly detection, and scalability for Kubernetes environments, helping you to proactively manage resources and resolve issues faster. Key features of Site24x7 Kubernetes Monitoring: Whether you're running a single Kubernetes cluster or managing multiple environments, Site24x7 helps you ensure peak performance and faster decision-making with minimal manual intervention.

How Istio Ambient Mode Delivers Real World Solutions

For years, platform teams have known what a service mesh can provide: strong workload identity, authorization, mutual TLS authentication and encryption, fine-grained traffic control, and deep observability across distributed systems. In theory, Istio checked all the boxes. In practice though, many teams hit a wall. Across industries like financial services, media, retail, and SaaS, organizations told a similar story. They wanted mTLS between services to meet regulatory or security requirements.

Scaling Kubernetes GitOps with Fleet: Experiment Results and Lessons Learnt

Fleet, Rancher’s built-in GitOps engine, is designed to scale up to thousands of clusters. However, “how far” can it scale in a real world scenario, you might ask? Earlier this year, we wrote about the Fleet benchmark tool and we made a few discoveries that were very instructive, especially concerning resource consumption and its impact on deployments’ performances.

KubeCon Atlanta 2025 & the AI-Native Shift

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta marked a definitive moment for cloud-native infrastructure. Over four days, celebrating the 10th anniversary of both CNCF and Kubernetes, more than 9,000 attendees witnessed the ecosystem’s evolution from container orchestration to AI-native operations. The conference delivered a clear message – AI workloads are no longer experimental.

Scaling faster and predictable cloud bills with Civo's FlexCore

How does Defense.com scale its SaaS security platform while keeping costs predictable? CEO Oliver Pinson-Roxburgh explains why Civo’s FlexCore was the only choice. FlexCore is engineered to deliver massive scalability and high performance, as milliseconds matter for real-time threat analysis, while ensuring UK Data Sovereignty and Compliance (ISO 27001). Crucially, FlexCore offers predictable pricing, eliminating the sudden, massive bills of larger providers. FlexCore delivers on-prem performance with public cloud scaling and simplicity.