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Episode 63 - KUBECON EMEA 2021-The CIVO Invasion with Mark Boost

Episode Summary

KUBECON + CloudNativeCon EMEA 2021 SPECIAL How does a formula 3 driver become the CEO/Co-Founder of a truly innovative new service called Civo? In this episode we deep drive and meet Mark Boost. Mark is a developer 20+ years ago, no time to code nowadays but still a techie at heart. We talk about his time as race car driver and young entrepreneur all the way to Civo? Mark provides his journey along with a behind the scenes look at Civo and why it its community are so special! ALL THAT, and POP invades one of Civo's Datacenters!

Episode Notes

What is CIVO?
Civo is an alternative to the big hyperscale cloud providers. They've launched world's first managed Kubernetes service powered by K3s.
With sub 90 second cluster launch times, a simplified Kubernetes experience, and predictable billing, Civo is on a mission to create a better developer experience.

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Timeline/Topic
00:00 - POP at the Civo datacenter
03:20 - Intro
03:53 - Mark Boost Interview

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