Exoscale DBaaS Kafka, Next Innovation For the past decade, the conversation around data has been dominated by storage: how to hold vast quantities of information in data lakes. This is a focus on data at res, a view of the past. As we’ve explored in this series—from our initial vision to the strate...

The Proof of Real-Time Business In the modern digital economy, the most expensive commodity is time. This is not a reference to hours or minutes, but...

Innovation, Not Operation Your Kafka Strategy is Your European Cloud Strategy Apache Kafka is the undisputed standard for real-time event streaming, ...

React at the Speed of Data Is Your Business Built for Now? In 2025, running a business on yesterday’s data is like driving a sports car while only lo...

A familiar story Two years ago, Marc, an executive at a respected company, made what seemed like a well-reasoned decision: to build and manage his own...

Exoscale’s Simple Object Storage (SOS) has long provided robust, S3-compatible object storage with features like versioning, server-side encryption (S...

Over the last few years, I delivered many Kubernetes trainings, some of which were preparations for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certi...

Choosing the right storage is critical for cloud-native applications and scaling your infrastructure. In this blog, we’ll break down Exoscale’s storag...

Exoscale’s SKS (Scalable Kubernetes Service) has introduced a major revamp of the Kubernetes node base image as part of the Kubernetes 1.32 update. Th...

Cosign is a powerful tool from the Sigstore project that solves the critical challenge of ensuring container image authenticity and integrity in softw...

In today’s data-driven world, ensuring high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery for your databases is no longer optional, it’s a necessit...

Enhancing Your DBaaS Operations with External Integrations In today’s ever-evolving IT landscape, businesses require tools that simplify their workflo...

In a previous article, we explored how to connect to an SKS cluster with OIDC using GitLab as the OpenID provider. In this article we’ll introduce Dex...

Following our recent changes, which made SOS strongly consistent allowing true read-after-write operations to be executed, we keep on following AWS pa...

In this article we’ll explore how to connect to an SKS Kubernetes cluster using GitLab as the OpenID provider. We’ll use users and groups defined in G...

Many people use cloud providers on a regular basis. Running a virtual machine, launching a Kubernetes cluster and managing complex infrastructure comp...

What are stateful workloads? By default, workloads running in Kubernetes are stateless. That means when a pod is restarted, all the data it wrote to i...

VMware vSphere is a virtualization and cloud computing platform that provides a suite of virtualization products for creating and managing virtualized...

Are you looking to save on your cloud computing costs? One simple way to do so is by automating the stopping and starting of your instances. By stoppi...

For various reasons, more and more people are turning away from classic social media apps to alternatives like Mastodon, which is a self-hosted altern...

cert-manager is a powerful and extensible X.509 certificate controller for Kubernetes. It can manage certificates in the SKS environment and in combin...

Our Scalable Kubernetes Service (SKS) can be used for a wide range of applications. Some of them use APIs or databases from external services. In the ...

Security Groups form the base primitive with which to build advanced networking setups on Exoscale as we previously demonstrated in our bastion articl...

We’re keeping it for history purposes, but we now strongly recommend block storage with the CSI Exoscale SKS (Scalable-Kubernetes-Service) enables yo...

Today our Database as a Service (DBaaS) offering has reached General Availability. With this achievement, we continue to improve our service offering ...

Companies are steadily shifting their IT infrastructure to a cloud environment. Finding the right cloud provider often proves a challenge for companie...

Six months ago, we introduced our Scalable Kubernetes Service (SKS) on the Exoscale platform. Since the first day SKS has evolved further, and we are ...

Exoscale Flexible Storage template empowers users to resize and/or create disk partitions as they deem fit, thanks to the flexibility provided by the ...

Today we held our webinar introducing Exoscale’s managed Kubernetes offering. Here is a recap of launch event explaining the strategy towards containe...

Recently we’ve introduced the ability to export Compute instance snapshots, which can in turn be either downloaded locally as an additional backup mea...

!!! note “Out-of-date article warning” Our platform grew and evolved a lot since this article was written. Container-Optimized Instances have been dep...

In the last 12 months, we released several fundamental services that greatly simplify the deployment of larger architectures. While each of the buildi...

!!! note The CCM is natively integrated in [Exoscale Scalable Kubernetes Service][kubernetes] to provides the benefits outlined below seamlessly. As t...

Two new families of Instance types are now generally available to all Exoscale customers: CPU Optimized and Memory Optimized Instance Types offer a sp...

Today we are happy to make our Network Load Balancer service (NLB) generally available. NLB allows users to provision a scalable and highly available ...

When you start a Compute instance on Exoscale, chances are that you’ll want to customize its environment by tweaking OS settings or install configure ...

We are pleased to release Identity and Access Management (IAM) functionality to our platform. Starting today it is possible to create API keys restric...

One of the biggest topics in CI/CD is how to scale Gitlab Runners and make them Highly Available. Whatever may happen server-side, developers should e...

In our recent introduction to Calico we have gone trough a very high level overview. This time we’ll go more in depth, installing Calico itself. While...

While Docker popularized the concept of containerization to the world, its network interface assumed a single host environment, a situation which most...

We’re happy to announce the first public release of the official Python bindings for the Exoscale API. This library allows Exoscale users to perform a...

The exoscale command line tool (“exo”) is now available as a snap package. “Snaps” allow seamless installation for all linux distributions that suppor...

The microservice paradigm has been a topic of heavy discussion and interest in recent years. To make the matter even more involved developers and arch...

Logging is an essential piece of every software architecture, allowing for identification, debugging and management of unusual situations in productio...

The Java sandbox security model has been around since more than a decade, and with some enhancements over the years it remains pretty much the same si...

Random numbers generation is critical to the smooth operations of modern information systems. However, it can run into pitfalls when dealing with virt...

Starting today you can use your own Custom Templates on Exoscale. This allows you to quickly create new Instances customized to fit your needs, withou...

In a previous post we talked about the implementation of the Circuit Breaker pattern. As a reminder, the Circuit Breaker is a pattern that prevents ca...

We’ve talked about Micronaut in the past, and its Ahead-of-Time compilation approach to efficiently use Java in Serverless functions. Thanks to AOT, M...

Today we broaden our catalog with a new GPU instance offering, based on the top performing NVIDIA Tesla V100 graphic cards. The new GPU2 offering lets...

Configuration management is one of the lesser known and most undervalued areas in software. It addresses state sync across multiple machines - and eve...

In our first article on Kubernetes zero downtime deployment, we defined the reasons why one would want to achieve zero-downtime deployment, how Kubern...

If you happen to use established online applications like e.g. Gmail, or some the biggest social media or e-commerce platforms, you probably never enc...

Serverless is without a doubt one of the most prominent trends in cloud computing. The core promise of Serverless is that neither developer nor operat...

There is no denying that in the last few years, technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, to name a few of the most relevant, have revolutionized how w...

While playing around with Docker on small projects or dev environments is surely entertaining, bringing your container-based application to production...

We are happy to announce support of managed private networks! Up until now, private networks provided additional network interface cards (NICs) belong...

It’s hard to find terms getting more attention in the software world in the last few years than the closely related practices of Continuous Integratio...

In the last post, we had a look at how to set up a private Docker registry. Setting up a Docker registry requires some steps: Install the Docker softw...

A private Docker registry allows you to share your custom base images within your organization, keeping a consistent, private, and centralized source ...

Once you start using Kubernetes to manage your containerized applications, you will most likely embrace the command line interface kubectl. Since the ...

One of the biggest challenges with Kubernetes is bringing up a cluster for the first time. There have been several projects that attempt to address th...

TLS certificates have never been more important: starting this month, Chrome will begin explicitly warning users if a site lacks a valid TLS certifica...

A lot of our internal code base at Exoscale is written in the Clojure programming language. While its expressiveness and functional nature makes the l...

You already know what is a single-page application and how to build one in ClojureScript and re-frame. We’ll now describe a cost-effective way to host...

In this post, we’ll examine the fundamentals of a single-page application with server-side rendering and discuss the pros and cons of using such an ap...

When we refer to containers, we now usually refer to the combination of cgroups, namespaces, and a packed system image. To store and distribute these...

Hosting videos on YouTube is convenient for several reasons: pretty good player, free bandwidth, mobile-friendly, network effect and, optionally, no a...

TL;DR) Terraform is a powerful tool to manage an Infrastructure using a description language. In this article, we show how to manage existing resource...

Today we’re happy to announce general availability of our next-generation object storage platform. The new API endpoint is sos-ch-dk-2.exo.io. This re...

!!! note “Updated on November 25th, 2024” You’re in your new job as Database Administrator or Data Engineer and you just got lost trying to figure out...

Secure SHell is a network protocol that enables secure connections. It is heavily used to connect to servers, make changes, upload things, and exit. S...

Good news, everyone! We are raising our free bandwidth tier from 100 GB to 1 TB per month. That means that you get more bandwidth for your machines fo...

With private networks just released on Exoscale, there are now more options to implement secure access to Exoscale cloud infrastructure. While we stil...

Private networks are now available within the Exoscale cloud infrastructure. Each instance can provision an additional unmanaged network interface tha...

Every virtual server instance on Exoscale gets one public IP. This IP will be linked to your instance as long as it exists. Upon destruction, IPs are ...

Switzerland is famous for its nuclear bunkers: homes must have access to either a private or communal fallout shelter. While private dwellings contin...

!!! note “Updated on August 19th, 2024” This article has been updated to reflect the recent changes into the [Exoscale Terraform provider][tf]. There ...

Continuing our series on bioinformatics tools, we’ll look at how to manage data sources for the BLAST tool. If you missed my last post, you should re...

Bioinformatics is a huge part of modern biological study. In this series of posts, I’m going to introduce you to some of the bioinformatics tools and ...

If NoSQL is all about leaving SQL behind, then what takes its place? First we need to clear something up: NoSQL is a bad name. Really these are non-re...

In this guide, I’m going to show how to deploy Nginx servers in just a few seconds using Ansible. We’ll deploy the servers to compute instances runnin...

When using Docker on a single host, a local private network is created and allows your containers to reach each others. It’s easy to make your applica...

!!! danger "" **This article is obsolete and uses not officially supported tooling and API support.** To access the full Exoscale API check our CLI or...

Today we’re excited to announce the release of SOS, the simple, scalable and safe S3-compatible object store. Object storage has been an oft-requested...

OpenVPN enables secure client to server or network connections via a single TCP or UDP port encrypted with SSL. It is the perfect companion for a rapi...

During the dotScale 2014 Paris conference, Exoscale launched the first Swiss PaaS solution. Platform as a Service simplifies the deployment and scalab...

It might be usefull sometimes to run virtual machines on top of a virtual machine. Install KVM in your instance apt-get install qemu-kvm virt-top libv...

We often talk about our Open Cloud product here on this devops oriented blog. One thing worth noticing is that almost everything we state on our Apach...

User-data is now a commonly used format to make an instance do stuff while it boots. It consist of a file that is served to a booting instance and inc...