How We Built a Cloud On K3s - The Learnings Of Growing Up Fast

Explore the journey of building a cloud platform on K3s in this conference talk by Alex Jones and Anaïs Urlichs from Civo. Discover how K3s revolutionized Kubernetes interaction by simplifying operational knowledge to an API, and learn about the challenges and learnings encountered while scaling an ethical cloud computing company. Gain insights into managing hundreds of micro-clusters, addressing observability, production support, and reliability issues, and adapting to hardware requirements. Understand the process of making clusters resilient in a multi-tenant environment and the importance of scaling company culture alongside technology and community support. Delve into topics such as Civo's infrastructure, K3s clusters, hot plug technology, networking, tenant clusters, deployment maturity, observability maturity, and culture maturity.