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New year, New York, new CivoStack

When we first started our managed Kubernetes beta, we knew utilising K3s as the Kubernetes distribution of choice was the right move. Not only is it light-weight and quick to deploy, K3s has features ideally suited for the scenarios we envisioned our users would encounter. It’s important for us to make sure any service we offer is 100% compatible with industry standards, and K3s allows us to do just that but with simplicity and speed for our users.

What is MEF 3.0 and why it matters

You may have spotted some news last week from PCCW Global that both its international network and the Console Connect digital platform have recently received MEF 3.0 certification. Besides demonstrating to our customers and partners that Console Connect is aligned with the latest and highest network standards, this news also highlights the work that we are doing behind-the-scenes to help advance network automation and on-demand services globally. Read more…

Operationalizing Kubernetes

Organizations have now seen the value of building microservices. They are delivering applications as discrete functional parts, each of which can be delivered as a container or service and managed separately. But for every application, there are more parts to manage than ever before, especially at scale, and that’s where many turn to an orchestrator for help.

Using the Cloud Monitoring Dashboard Editor

Want to visualize your monitoring data like never before? In this episode of Stack Doctor, we show you how to use the new Dashboard Editor to easily visualize your Cloud Monitoring data. Specifically, we’ll show you how to create a dashboard using gauges, scorecards, and text widgets and how you can utilize the new layouts and chart configuration modes to closely monitor the health of your services!

Monitoring as code: what it is and why you need it

“Everything as code” has become the status quo among leading organizations adopting DevOps and SRE practices, and yet, monitoring and observability have lagged behind the advancements made in application and infrastructure delivery. The term “monitoring as code” isn’t new by any means, but incorporating monitoring automation as part of an infrastructure as code (IaC) initiative is not the same as a complete end-to-end solution for monitoring as code.

Portainer recommends MicroK8s for effortless deployment

Portainer is an open source tool that allows for container deployment and management without the need to write code. In their recent publication, ‘How to deploy Portainer on MicroK8s’, the Portainer team share with the community how easy and fast it is to deploy Portainer on MicroK8s. In fact, the entire process only requires a single command! For a step-by-step walkthrough of the process, take a look at Portainer’s 5 minute video below. Install MicroK8s

Rancher Online Meetup: January 2021 - k3d: Local Development with K3s Made Easy

In this meetup we'll show you how to get productive developing locally on Kubernetes with the help of k3d which lets you spin up a K3s cluster on your laptop. We'll guide you through a full development setup including the k3d CLI, the awesome new vscode-k3d plugin and synergy with tools like Skaffold or Tilt.