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In the May edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the version 4.1 release, the upcoming 4.2 feature release, and we discuss the upcoming deprecation of the 1.x and 2.0 versions.

The hard part of deploying AI agents isn't the agent. It's the environment around it. As organisations move from AI experimentation into production, the question isn't just what agents can do; it's whether you can trust the environment they run in. Sandboxed execution gives you both the autonomy and the guardrails, keeping agents isolated, auditable, and under your control.

Digital sovereignty isn't a marketing buzzword. It's about jurisdiction, accountability, and operational certainty and it starts with where your data is hosted and how it's processed. Civo's UK sovereign cloud delivers public cloud, private cloud, and AI services, all hosted and operated exclusively within the United Kingdom under UK legal authority with no exposure to foreign control.

Understand what hybrid cloud monitoring is and why it’s critical for managing modern distributed IT environments. Hybrid cloud monitoring helps organizations unify visibility across on-prem infrastructure, public cloud platforms, virtual machines, containers, and Kubernetes clusters in a single monitoring platform. In this video, learn how fragmented monitoring tools create operational blind spots and slow down incident response across hybrid environments.

One of the most powerful capabilities in K8s is the ability to autoscale resources to meet demands, scaling resources up during peak periods to ensure performance, and down again during lower periods to save money. In this joint session, Lucidity and Kubex walk through what end-to-end K8s optimization looks like when you address both layers together. We cover: Expect real examples, not slides full of theory. You’ll leave with a clear picture of where waste is hiding in your environment and a prioritized approach to addressing it.

What is Ubuntu Core? Ubuntu Core is a minimal and strictly confined variant of Ubuntu powering devices around the world. Ubuntu Core 26 now integrates with the Canonical Observability Stack, streaming device logs and metrics to centralized Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus infrastructure, deployable in the cloud or on-premise, without burdening the device's primary workloads.

Most cloud providers think AI is just a hardware problem. They focus on the GPUs, the racks, and the raw compute, but they leave the strategy up to you. At Civo, we do AI differently. We don't just provide the hardware; we guide you through the full life cycle of AI adoption, from initial planning to scaling production workloads. By leveraging best-in-class NVIDIA models and GPUs, we give you the performance to unlock AI at scale without the fear of being bogged down by complexity. It's more than infrastructure, it’s cloud freedom with AI built-in.

Spin up a GPU workload cluster using Konstruct's new GPU cluster templates, deploy a self-hosted LLM, and use it in your organization — all live on stream. This hands-on session shows how shipping AI workloads to GPU clusters is just as easy as deploying to Konstruct physical or virtual clusters, and how open source apps in the GitOps Catalog make it even faster. Walk away knowing how to cut your token spend by running models privately on your own infrastructure.

In this episode of the Kubernetes for Humans podcast, tech veteran Dave Aronchick shares his incredible journey from leading the Kubernetes and GKE projects at Google to co-founding Kubeflow and his current venture, Expanso.

Leave the lock-in of VMware behind. Migrate legacy workloads to Kubernetes-native infrastructure with air-gapped security, GPU passthrough, and consistent Terraform APIs.

In this episode, special guest Blake Sherwood joins the show to discuss his unique career trajectory from tourism and coal mining to leading massive-scale Kubernetes migrations. Blake shares insights from his experience managing petabytes of data in high-compliance environments, delving into the practical realities of integrating AI into enterprise workflows and observability systems.

When you can’t move your data to the cloud, we bring Civo to you. Using CivoStack Enterprise and FlexCore, you can deploy AI in secure, on-premise, or hybrid environments that you fully control. Your data, your rules, no compromises.

With hyperscalers, growth comes with a hidden cost. The more your data moves, the more you pay, by design. Egress fees are that cost. A model built to discourage migration, limit flexibility, and keep you trapped in their ecosystem. At Civo, we've eliminated that barrier completely. No egress fees, no hidden charges. Every cost is transparent and predictable, so you always know exactly what you're paying for. You stay because you choose to. That's cloud freedom.

In this episode of "Kubernetes for Humans," Stefana Muller, VP of Infrastructure & Operations at Salesforce, shares her fascinating journey from technical support to navigating the massive scale of the Own Backup acquisition. Stefana dives into the immense multi-cloud Kubernetes challenges of scaling from 18,000 to over 52,000 clusters, standardizing environments across AWS and Azure, and leveling up security to meet stringent Salesforce standards.