Case Study: Civo achieves fast, reliable cloud native storage with Ondat

Supporting Civo’s lightning-fast managed Kubernetes development and deployment service

Civo, a fast-growing managed Kubernetes provider, needed a more reliable and scalable storage foundation for its platform. After struggling with OpenStack, Ceph, and later NetApp, the lean team faced ongoing maintenance issues, storage warnings, and late-night failures that made it hard to run a stable managed service business. Ondat’s cloud native storage was chosen to help solve these challenges.

Ondat provided persistent volumes with strong replication, high availability, failover, and elasticity, integrating natively into Civo’s Kubernetes deployments. This enabled automated storage provisioning for customer clusters, simplified maintenance and rolling upgrades, and helped Civo reduce costs by letting customers pay only for the storage they use. Using Ondat, Civo can offer a 1GB volume for as little as $0.10 per month while supporting its expansion to multiple super-clusters.

Civo

Andy Jeffries

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder