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Calling all DigitalOcean users - Kubefirst is finally here!
Calling all DigitalOcean users - Kubefirst is finally here!
We're excited to announce that the Kubefirst instant gitops platform now fully supports DigitalOcean as of 2.3.
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John Dietz shared thisOn this day 7 years ago, Jared Edwards and I started the open source Kubefirst, then Konstruct, and are proud to still be building the cloud hosted fabric of your platform engineering team today with Civo. https://lnkd.in/eQzw6mH9 So many of you have helped us on this mission. Thousands of GitHub stars, hundreds and hundreds of contributors. I've been whispering around the shop the whole time that every overnight success is 7 years in the making. With Konstruct by Civo recently announced, we happen to have the best cloud native platform in the world, right as year 7 begins. How lucky. I wonder how this year will play out. If you'd like to be part of the success, please reach out. We're ready for everything in a way that no other team on Earth could be, and we'd love to help your company's mission. From all of us at the shop, thank you so much for all of it. It's meant the world to me. 💚
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John Dietz shared thisControl planes, management clusters, workload clusters, GPU clusters, multicloud, air gapped, app delivery, infrastructure as code, platform distribution, tenant isolation boundaries, automated app onboarding, secrets abstractions, gitops catalog. What if you could have it all in an instant and stay up to date and distributed everywhere? Bring your own opinions or start from ours. https://lnkd.in/ew8p-jEZ
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John Dietz shared thisIn a little less than an hour we'll be showing you how you can self host AI workloads on Kubernetes starting from scratch. Find out how you can run self hosted models in your private cloud infrastructure to increase your speed and sovereignty. - add your cloud and gitops repo to konstruct - click create cluster in your favorite cloud (Civo) - click install in the gitops catalog - ask claude for profit You could be a hero before dinner hits the table tonight. See you there https://lnkd.in/e5M4MNVYSelf-host AI on Kubernetes: GPU clusters, private models, and the GitOps Catalog | CivoSelf-host AI on Kubernetes: GPU clusters, private models, and the GitOps Catalog | Civo
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John Dietz shared thisTomorrow we'll show you how you can self host AI workloads on Kubernetes in under an hour starting from scratch. Find out how you can run claude code against your private cloud infrastructure to increase your speed and sovereignty while putting an end to your dreaded token spend! See you there, livestream link in comments. 🚀
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John Dietz shared thisIf you need to run self hosted GPU workloads at your shop, you've got to join our GPU stream next Tuesday 🤖🚀John Dietz shared thisWant to run AI models privately on your own infrastructure? Join us next Tuesday. John Dietz and M R Rishi are running a live, hands-on webinar on May 20. They'll spin up a GPU workload cluster using Konstruct's new GPU cluster templates, deploy a self-hosted LLM, and show you how the GitOps Catalog makes it faster. Walk away knowing how to cut your token spend by shipping AI workloads to GPU clusters as easily as any other Konstruct deployment. Register now 💻 https://civo.io/4fkIHqGSelf-host AI on Kubernetes: GPU clusters, private models, and the GitOps Catalog | CivoSelf-host AI on Kubernetes: GPU clusters, private models, and the GitOps Catalog | Civo
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John Dietz reposted thisJohn Dietz reposted thisToday is the last day to get Civo Navigate London at the best price 🚀 Join us on September 22nd at Convene, 155 Bishopsgate. A one-day event at the forefront of AI, cloud, and data sovereignty, with hands-on workshops and expert-led sessions shaping the future of tech. 🚨Early Bird tickets are £150 today only. Limited spots remain. If you're planning to be there, this is your moment. https://civo.io/4twTcuE
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John Dietz reposted thisJohn Dietz reposted this☁ We're Hiring: Sr. Staff Cloud Architect ☁ Are you the kind of cloud architect who thinks in golden paths, developer experience, and GitOps? Do you want to own platform strategy at the scale where your decisions ripple across thousands of engineers building the technologies that connect people? Qualcomm IT is hiring a Sr. Staff Cloud Architect to lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of our GitOps-driven platform engineering capabilities. This is a technical-authority role with real autonomy, you'll set the direction for our EKS platform today, lay the foundation for multi-cloud expansion tomorrow, and establish the GitOps operating model (Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Terraform) that distributed engineering teams rely on to ship safely at scale. 👉 Apply: https://lnkd.in/gSQEqgi5 Know someone who'd be a great fit? Send me a DM. Happy to share more about the team and role. #PlatformEngineering #Kubernetes #EKS #GitOps #Hiring #Qualcomm #ArgoCD #Cloud #AWS
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John Dietz shared thisHey there network, this Wednesday we'll be demoing the platform of our dreams and I'd love for you to be there. Please help me introduce Konstruct by Civo by sharing this post or signing up for it yourself. On this livestream you'll see how Konstruct enables development teams to get their own self service platforms that they can build and ship their apps on, all with your perfectly customizable click. 🚀 https://lnkd.in/eYYhcSzF Konstruct was built by great humans and uses the best tech, you can hit reshare proudly, haha. Thanks a bunch friends, see you there. #kubernetes #platformengineering #gitopsIntroduction to Konstruct: Production-ready IDP in minutesIntroduction to Konstruct: Production-ready IDP in minutes
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Valeria K. thank you so much. K-ray never would have been the same without you. ✨
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7 years on this mission today 🚀. Since our acquisition by Civo a couple of years ago, we've been able to team up with some of the largest organizations in the world to solve the toughtest platform engineering challenges and scales. Jared Edwards and I, along with the best team on the planet, are proud to still be building the cloud hosted fabric of your portable platform engineering dreams.
We're delivering the most popular open source tech in an instant, given to you in your Git orgs, in a way that lets you distribute your custom IDPs to your downstream teams. This lets them self-service, but on your terms. You should check us out if you're enormous or dream of being enormous.
https://konstruct.civo.com/docs
If you're tiny, we built our platform with you in our heart as well and we defend your needs. We have an incredible free tier, we're open source forward, with hosted options and a rich upstream to offload your enormous burden.
Since our very start, we've been on a mission to change the cloud and software delivery industry. Not by reinventing the parts of this great wheel, but by putting them together fast. It's been an honor to represent the fearless team that is challenging the industry like we are. 💚
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Sumit Kumar Sinha thank you so much, it's been such an incredible ride meeting good folks like you along this mission. wishing all of my best right back friend.
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John Dietz reacted on thisJohn Dietz reacted on thisUSA TODAY’s Reddit account just surpassed 500k karma! It’s up from around 90k at the beginning of last year, when I took over the platform strategy. Reddit, Inc. is a great page views driver even without us being active there and over the past year and half, it’s been so much fun increasing also our direct engagement with readers. Our reporters helped with immigration questions, talked about movies, books, the olympics, military, politics, personal finance and much more. And during this election season, we’re experimenting with Mallorie Sullivan to provide updates and resources to voters across the country and answer their questions: - check out our elections guide: https://lnkd.in/excjY_qu - and a thread with the Q&A: https://lnkd.in/e4Edx2fC
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John Dietz reacted on thisJohn Dietz reacted on thisAt Virtru, we believe everyone deserves the right to control their own information. Who sees it. How it's shared. On whose terms. That belief doesn't stop at data. Happy last day of Pride Month. 🏳️🌈
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John Dietz liked thisJohn Dietz liked thisHere's a hard truth: 39% of UK organizations experienced outages originating from US hyperscaler infrastructure last year. For some, it happened multiple times. These aren't hypothetical risks anymore. They're real operational failures with real financial consequences. Our latest research explores what triggered the shift from abstract concern to concrete business risk. Discover the full findings in the Digital Sovereignty Revolution 2026 white paper: https://civo.io/4uMtp1V
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John Dietz reacted on thisJohn Dietz reacted on thisEveryone's talking about what AI can build. Fewer people are talking about what that means for the teams that have to manage it all. John Dietz and M R Rishi had that conversation live, covering the 10x app problem, the impact on GitOps, the debugging skills AI is quietly eroding, and what it all means for the future of Kubernetes. Catch the full webinar here: https://civo.io/4w11KM0
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