Managed Apache Kafka: Your future-proof foundation for data in motion. Achieve scalability, resilience, architectural freedom, and EU data privacy com...

Learn how Exoscale managed Apache Kafka enables real-time fraud prevention, instant e-commerce personalization, and IoT insights. Transform your busin...

Solve Kafka's operational complexity while ensuring European data compliance. Discover how managed Kafka on a sovereign cloud reduces costs & accelera...

Adopt Apache Kafka: the proven event streaming platform used by Fortune 100 companies to build real-time enterprises and unlock instant data insights.

Is your in-house Kubernetes platform a silent powerhouse or a ticking time bomb? Discover the hidden costs and security risks of DIY K8s and learn why...

Exoscale’s New Bucket Replication Feature: Secure, Automated S3 Data Sync

Using Multipass and Exoscale Nested Virtualisation to run a kubeadm cluster

Discover Exoscale's Block Storage, Local NVMe Storage, and Object Storage. Compare their benefits and learn when to use each for your Kubernetes and C...

SKS/Kubernetes 1.32 Node OS Template Revamp

Learn how to use cosign to sign and verify container images within a software supply chain

Read Replicas for PostgreSQL and MySQL

DBaaS External Integrations (Datadog, Prometheus, Rsyslog, Elastic/OpenSearch

Learn how to configure an SKS cluster with Dex to enable access through GitLab as the identity provider

Conditional writes are now available in SOS, preventing race conditions during object creation

Learn how to configure an SKS cluster with OIDC to enable access through GitLab as the identity provider

Learn how Exoscale manages its SKS managed Kubernetes cluster under the hood

Learn how to deploy stateful Kubernetes workloads on Exoscale SKS with ease!

Learn how to migrate a virtual Instance from VMware vSphere to Exoscale with ease. Get started now!

Further expanding our presence in Europe, we are happy to announce we are bringing our Cloud insfrastructure to a second zone in Vienna, Austria.

Use a small Linux instance with a cronjob to trigger events via the Exoscale API to start and stop instances after schedule. Read the full guide!

Using Mastodon you can host your own social network on Exoscale and federate it with other instances. Read more!

Manage certifications in a K8s environment easily with cert-manager. Learn how to simply set up cert-manager on Exoscale in our blog post.

Using a DaemonSet in Kubernetes, it is possible to route traffic through a separate gateway. Read more in our blog.

Security groups are gaining in flexibility with the ability to add external sources as objects

Store your data securely inside your Kubernetes cluster with the open-source software Longhorn.

Our Database as a Service (DBaaS) offering has reached General Availability. Read all about our latest milestone and how your data is protected within...

On-demand, spot, reserved, volume - different cloud pricing models each with pros & cons. Learn all about the different pricing models available!

Six months ago we introduced our Scalable Kubernetes Service (SKS). Read about the development and our certification by the CNCF.

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

Introducing SKS - Scalable Kubernetes Service - and Exoscale Container strategy

Exporting a snapshot and registering it as a custom template for faster deployments

Container-Optimized Instances are designed to run Docker containers at startup: your container is available on the Internet in a matter of seconds!

The new Exoscale Network Load Balancer provides the option to use the cloud to its fullest: automatically scale up or down based on the current CPU us...

Thanks to the transparent bridging of k8s functionalities to corresponding Exoscale resources, deploying Kubernetes workloads gets easier than ever.

Thanks to CPU and Memory Optimized Instances you can deploy on specialized solutions that enable improved cost/performance ratio for your workloads.

The Exoscale Network Load Balancer service allows users to create Layer 4 (TCP/UDP) load balancers.

Exoscale Custom Templates allow you to register your own templates for Compute instances. Learn how to create one using Packer.

With IAM you can have detailed access control of your Exoscale infrastructure giving access only to selected services and commands.

Build Highly Available Gitlab Runners Infrastructure Using Instance Pool

How to Install Calico on Kubernetes or Bare Metal

An Introduction to Calico: Container Networking at Scale

python-exoscale is the official Exoscale Python binding to control your resources and integrate your application.

It is now much easier to install the exoscale command-line tool on Ubuntu based systems, and more!

Using Apache Karaf Framework to build Microservices

In modern systems, logging it's a given. But what actually happens when we do log, what are the impacts on performance, and how can we improve it?

A summary of the security feature of Java 11

Virtual Machines do not have the same behavior with randomness as physical servers. This is how you ensure proper entropy and reliable randomness in t...

With Custom Templates you can simplify your workflow by creating pre-configured virtual machines and custom OS

Further expanding our presence in Germany, we are happy to announce we are extending our Cloud platform with a new zone in Munich, Germany.

A walk through the differences between Hystrix and Resilience4J, embracing functional programming in Java

Micronaut supports many Spring features. This lets you use it for specific environments requiring small memory footprints and quick start times

Start on-demand GPU virtual machines with up to 4 Tesla V100. Scale up your computational capabilities by reducing your costs.

Further expanding our presence in Europe, we are happy to announce we are bringing our Cloud insfrastructure a new zone in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Let's explore the many options Kubernetes offers to configure the scheduled containers, and employ a simple Spring Boot application as a use-case.

This is how to achieve a zero downtime rolling update with Kubernetes using Spring Boot

A zero downtime deployment is actually possible. But things can become tricky if you have a database in between.

Looking for a Serverless solution with no lock-in? This is how you may deploy your own service on the infrastructure of your choice.

Here is how Istio and Hystrix differ in the implementation of the circuit breaker pattern, handling the lack of availability of a service.

Docker Logging can be achieved in multiple ways. We'll go trough them to show you how to implement a proper production-ready docker logging setup.

You can now configure a manged private network on Exoscale. It will automatically configure the IP addresses of your private network interfaces.

Continuous Integration starts from development best practices up to build automation, creating a predictable path for your application life cycle.

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...

What is a private Docker registry? How do you setup one up, how do you secure it? Find out how to setup a secure and private registry for your images

Switch froma an imperative to a declarative approach for you Kubernetes object management using kustomize.

This tutorial gets you up and running with using Rancher and RKE to deploy a Kubernetes cluster on Exoscale.

A primer on TLS, Certificates and their automated deployment with Let's Encrypt ACMEv2. We answer a few common questions and present the benefits for ...

How to build an entire Clojure application from scratch: a nice intro to the language we love.

Exoscale's simple Object Storage is an ideal and reliable place to securely host a static website or a single-page application.

Fundamentals of a single-page application with server-side rendering, and the pros and cons of using such a technique in web properties.

How to setup and run a secure and scalable private Docker registry on top of Exoscale object storage.

Putting videos on YouTube is a convenient solution to host a video, but not a privacy-friendly one. Using HLS, it's possible to self-host videos while...

Terraform is a powerful tool to manage an infrastructure. We show how to manage existing resources such a Virtual Machine and Security Group and scali...

SOS next generation general availability

Learn how to use the EXPLAIN keyword to better understand what's going on in your MySQL queries and where you might apply some tweaks.

DE-FRA-1 is available immediately On the heels of the recent Vienna Zone announcement, we are proud to unveil the next step in helping Exoscale grow ...

Advanced SSH techniques and when you might need them.

AT-VIE-1 is available immediately It is with great pride that I announce the availability of AT-VIE-1, a new Exoscale zone in Vienna, marking our fir...

More bandwidth for you: Exoscale is raising free bandwidth from 100 GB to 1 TB per month.

A step by step guide to the typical private network use-case on Exoscale

Exoscale is introducing private networks so you can connect your instances with each other for all your private network needs.

Introducing elastic IPs to Exoscale.

Former Swiss military bunkers have left large secure spaces that can be put to new uses: for example as high security data-center to keep your data sa...

Terraform lets you manage your infrastructure on multiple providers using simple configuration files. Here's how to get started with Terraform on Exos...

Bioinformatics: managing BLAST data sources

Read our guide to getting the BLAST bioinformatics software up and running on Ubuntu on Exoscale's cloud and performing your first query, as part of o...

How do we query NoSQL databases? Here's an overview of the different query methods, including new SQL-like languages for non-relational databases.

Learn how to deploy Nginx using Ansible, complete with an Ansible playbook you can clone from Github.

Learn how to create a multi-host private network with Docker, Docker Machine and Docker Swarm on the cloud. We show you how to setup such a network in...

Learn to automate your cloud deployment with the Exoscale API client. We show you how to execute simple operations on your Instances from the command ...

SOS - simple object storage - is an S3 compatible and let you architecting applications with better reliability, and speed than just the filesystem.

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...