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Kubernetes in 2021: Where does the industry go next?

As software code complexity and volume increases, businesses are flocking to containerization as a scalable solution to accelerate development of new applications. At Civo, we are always led by the community. We are firm believers in making sure that the voices of developers are always heard, and that they should shape how Kubernetes continues to evolve. To that end, we recently undertook some research to better understand cloud developers’ opinions about Kubernetes and containers, particularly what factors were encouraging or discouraging its use across the enterprise.

Orchestration in Telcos: the multi-vendor and multi-cloud environments...

The use of NFV migration is becoming commonplace, it is made apparent there is a need for a higher degree of software management, smoother upgrades, and deployment process. Due to the complexity of the migration, Telcos have been deterred from adoption. A solution should be out there to aid businesses in managing and deploying network automation, orchestration, and managed services. In general, a telco network is complex and needs to be managed using multiple perspectives.

DevOps 101: Introduction to CI/CD

When you’re new to an industry, you encounter § a lot of new concepts. We tend to use a lot of jargon, the documentation may be written for someone more experienced in mind or rely on contextual knowledge of the rest of the space, and it often doesn’t explain the “why” for the tool. This can make it really difficult to get your feet underneath you in an unfamiliar landscape, especially for junior engineers.

Use Case: Improving Developer Experience with Data Science

Qovery is a continuous deployment platform. Users deploy apps of all kinds, written in any language and framework they choose. The freedom users have come with a cost for the Qovery core team - the broad scope Qovery has to cover, makes it harder to make the deployment process stable and straightforward for everybody. It's easy to create a service focused on just one language or framework - supporting all of them requires considering many more factors.

Google Cloud Asset Inventory 101

Cloud Asset Inventory is a metadata inventory service that allows you to view, monitor, and analyze all your Google Cloud and Anthos assets across projects and services. In this video, Sophia Yang - a Google Cloud Product Manager - will show you how Cloud Asset Inventory allows you greater visibility into your Google Cloud assets, receive real-time notifications on asset config changes, run analysis on inventory, getting insights from your deployment, and more! Watch to learn how you can use Cloud Asset Inventory to gain greater observability into your Google Cloud and Anthos assets!

Microsoft Operator Connect

In March 2021, Microsoft announced Operator Connect, a new way for organizations to connect Microsoft Teams to a telecom provider. From an enterprise buyer’s perspective, Operator Connect delivers a new “apps store” type of experience to enable organizations to choose a telecom provider and connect Teams users to the PSTN from the Teams admin center. Equally important, Operator Connect enables a new set of menu-based user configuration tools within the Teams admin center.

No Internet? No Problem. Use Artifactory with an Air Gap - Part I

Virtually all development organizations need access to remote public resources such as Maven Central, NuGet Gallery, npmjs.org, Docker Hub etc., to download dependencies needed for a build. One of the big benefits of using Artifactory is its remote repositories which proxy these remote resources and cache artifacts that are downloaded.

GitOps Workshop

On August 11th, 2021, we conducted a workshop to discuss implementing a GitOps workflow using ArgoCD, Crossplane, and Shipa. We were overwhelmed by the hundreds of people who registered for the session. We believe it shows a few important challenges have to be solved for GitOps to become mainstream across different enterprises. While GitOps brings many benefits, we often see teams facing challenges.