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Behind the Helm (August 2023)

Dan — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 09:36:22 +0000

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Hello lovely subscribers!

I hope you’ve had a great summer so far. At Scaleway, the latest additions to our changelog have all been about databases; it’s clearly the summer of data.

Kubernetes 1.28 is out! This edition brings us better recovery from unexpected node shutdown, longer lead times between API server and node version updates, and a whole host of features entering the alpha phase.

Marino Wijay and Matt Turner joined David Flanagan and Laura Sanatamaria for another episode of Cloud Native Compass, this time around Istio’s new Ambient Mesh offering. Give it a listen if you want to stay on the cutting edge of the service mesh world!

Last week’s edition of the Scaleway Sessions featured Thibault Lengagne from Padok, taking us through two different attack scenarios on a K8s cluster used to deploy a vulnerable web app. We had an absolute blast chatting with Thibault; you can check out the recording here.

On that episode we also talked about a number of tools that are out there to help developers keep their clusters safe, including using Kyverno to double check that your pods really do only have the permissions they need. If you’ve watched the latest Scaleway Sessions linked above, read this blog post from Kyverno to know more about how to mitigate one of the vulnerabilities we exploited!

Lastly, we at Scaleway would like to note with great sadness the passing of Kris Nóva, a trailblazing developer, community builder and Kubernetes contributor. Her work in distributed systems and open-source development has left an enormous legacy, and she will be much missed.

May your deployments be smooth and your pipelines never fail,

Eli & the Scaleway team

PS. I’ve been on vacation this month, so there’s no crossword this time around—stay tuned for the next edition!

Behind the Helm (July 2023)

Dan — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:00:00 +0000

This is the web edition of the Behind the Helm, Scaleway's monthly Kubernetes newsletter. For the best Kubernetes news in your inbox every month, subscribe today!

Hi, lovely subscribers!

I hope you’ve had a great summer so far. At Scaleway, we’ve been hard at work releasing new features - check out our changelog!

Argonaut have released a technical exploration of their CI pipelines, which is absolutely fascinating. If you’d like a peek under the hood of one of the most popular deployment tools for K8s, this is a must-read.

IstioCon will be happening on the 25th & 26th of September, with a mix of virtual and in-person content scheduled. If you want to keep up with the movers and shakers in the service mesh world, give it a look. In the meantime, you can read about Istio’s authentication and authorization policies in this cool article from InfraCloud!

Also from InfraCloud is this primer on MLOps - if you’ve been wondering about whether machine learning technology has a place in your workflow, now is the time to find out.

Our Kubernetes meetup, KubeTalks, is taking a summer break - the next edition will be on the 28th September at our Paris office!

Finally, if your work is slowing down over the summer, and you find yourself with some time spare to catch up on everything cloud-native, you can never go wrong with the CNCF’s excellent course of Online Programs.

May your deployments be smooth and your pipelines never fail,
Eli & the rest of the Scaleway team

p.s. It’s too warm to think very hard right now, so this month’s crossword isn’t cryptic! Enjoy 🙂

Behind the Helm (June 2023)

Dan — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 22:00:00 +0000

This is the web edition of the Behind the Helm, Scaleway's monthly Kubernetes newsletter. For the best Kubernetes news in your inbox every month, subscribe today!

Hello lovely subscribers!

It’s June, and with the new month comes a new edition of Behind The Helm. We’ve got our usual round-up of blog posts, podcasts and events news to keep you up to date with the cloud native world.

Blogs & news

First up, we’ve got some tooling news: Red Hat has brought Podman to the desktop with version 1.0 of their Community Edition! This release can help businesses streamline OpenShift workflows, and swiftly onboard developers who are new to cloud native.

Next is a fascinating read by the folks at OpenTelemetry, focusing on runtime observability in K8s. Check it out, and bring your debugging to the next level with your newly acquired tracing superpowers.

The awesome folks over at Inheaden connected 250,000 IoT devices to the cloud using K8s; read the deep dive on our blog!

Podcast episodes

The Changelog podcast covered the hallway track at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit last month, and this month they’ve released their last episode of that coverage — including some very cool guests.

If you want to keep up to date with all the WASM hype, check out this episode of the Kubernetes Podcast with Justin Cormack, the CTO of Docker.

Events

With summer coming, our Lille office is in full bloom. We’ll take advantage of its gorgeous terrace to host an edition of KubeTalks, our K8s-focused meetup. This event will be in French, and we’ll welcome Stephane Dessein, CTO of Le Fourgon, along with Bruno Flament, DevSecOps Kubernetes at Whispeak, who’ll discuss Kubernetes service traceability. Save your spot!

Registration is now open for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago this November! Book your tickets, book your hotel—get hype.

Finally, our DevRel team will also be attending DevOpsDays Amsterdam if any of you are there, we’d love to hang out! Come grab us for a chat and a coffee.

That’s all for now (apart from the crossword, of course) — see you all in July!

Yours,
Eli & the Scaleway team

🧊 Cool things for a hot open-source summer! (Scaleway Community Newsletter, June 2023)

Kai Katschthaler (they/them) — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 12:52:15 +0000

This is the web edition of Scaleway's monthly community newsletter, where we share interesting stuff dedicated to various topics devs and devOps folks care about. If you want this in your inbox every month, subscribe today!

Hi there!

The temperatures are rising, people are going on holiday, and in many industries, work starts to slow down a bit over the summer. Perhaps you find yourself blocked in your work by someone who’s jetted off on a sunny holiday (how dare they? 😉).

Or maybe you’re the one who’s taken some time off, but you’ve got nowhere to go and are trying to escape the heat inside. 🥵

Why not use some of that extra time to contribute to your favorite open-source project?

So many companies’ software stacks are built on open-source tools. And many of us use open-source software almost daily in our private lives as well, often without noticing.

Source: Unsplash/Simon Lee

Taking the time to contribute to free and open-source software is a great way to give back to the often vastly under-compensated projects that keep our tech running. But it’s not the only way. You can find a bunch of other tips in our blog post Giving back to Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS)!

So — now that you’ve gotten past my enthusiastic attempts to make this seasonal —, let’s get ready for a hot open-source summer and cool off with a whole bunch of open-source-related topics, tips, and links!

📚 Cool OSS reads

As the image of the iceberg above so nicely illustrates, we’re relying on open source for a lot of the things we build. And if we forget that, we can potentially end up in hot water. Chris Lewis makes a case for Software Dependency Engineering to keep the dependency management problem from worsening and averting disaster.

While we’re at it, maybe we should also have a look at what even constitutes open source. Is a project still open source even if it is closed to contributions? How ‘open’ should your open source be? tackles this brilliantly, and I quite like that it also briefly taps into what accepting contributions can mean for maintainer mental health.

I also enjoyed reading The Unreasonable Effectiveness of VLC, which could best be described as a love letter to VLC. I’ve always been a huge fan of VLC myself — and I’m not saying that to butter up our new Scaleway CEO, who just so happens to have been involved in VLC’s early days, but because of how VLC disrupted the industry and made so many things so much easier.

📅 Cool OSS events

There are some cool open-source events/conferences coming up this summer as well.

Get ready for FOSSY 2023, the “first Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference”. FOSSY 2023 is an in-person event in Portland, Oregon (US), from July 13-16. The event has a reduced-fare ticket tier for those on a budget and a code of conduct.

Then there’s the Pass the SALT conference, a free conference dedicated to free software and security. The conference takes place in Lille, France, July 3–5, and also has a code of conduct.

Find more FOSS events near you on foss.events!

🪛 Cool new(ish) tools

A few weeks ago, Polar was published. Polar is an open-source tool to give maintainers a way to organize direct funding for specific issues in their backlog. Love to see open-source tools trying to solve open-source problems. 👏🏻

Source: Twitter

Another project in that vein is Overlay, an open-source browser extension to help developers evaluate open-source packages before picking them.

FerretDB is a (truly) open-source alternative to MongoDB. It’s not super mature, so you probably can’t completely replace MongoDB with it just yet, but it’s a good start. Which is why we decided to add FerretDB to Scaleway’s ecosystem a while back. 🎉

Sandstorm.io is here to make self-hosting web apps super easy and super secure. Each “grain” (or object) in the Sandstorm is containerized and isolated from others unless you say otherwise. You can install Sandstorm locally or in the cloud. Many of the apps available on the Sandstorm app market are also open source. Sandstorm runs on Linux.

As you probably heard, people aren’t very happy with Reddit at the moment, be it for charging huge monies for API access or the incessant targeted ads. So for everyone who likes their privacy, Teddit is here to save the day! Teddit (much to my disappointment, it doesn’t have a teddy bear as a logo) is a free and open-source alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy. No JS, no ads!

Windmill is an open-source alternative to Airplane and Retool, letting you turn scripts into workflows and UIs.

Meanwhile, Plane (accidental wind theme in this section of the newsletter) is an open-source project management tool for software development — basically an alternative to JIRA and the like.

👀 More interesting OSS-related links

Github Next is working on a Copilot for CLI
How to Write a Good Issue: Tips for Effective Communication in Open Source
npm v/s yarn v/s pnpm

That’s it for this month! Stay cool, stay hydrated, and show FOSS some love 💝

Cheers,

Kai from Scaleway

Here’s to New Beginnings (Scaleway Community Newsletter, May 2023)

Kai Katschthaler (they/them) — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 12:38:48 +0000

This is the web edition of Scaleway's new monthly community newsletter, where we share interesting stuff dedicated to various topics devs and devOps folks care about. If you want this in your inbox every month, subscribe today!

Hi there!

👋🏻 Welcome to our new newsletter (try saying that 3x fast in a row) for the developer community. Everything is pretty new here, such as this newsletter itself, which you will get every month now and which will have a different theme each time. I’m also pretty new, at least here at Scaleway 😉 So I figured why not make the theme of this first newsletter “New Beginnings”?

Starting a new job always means being exposed to so many new things, and I have learned a lot in the past few weeks as I started working with our engineers to help them write articles for our blog: I learned about Identity and Access Management (IAM), for example. I also know more about containers now than I did a month ago. I really learned a whole lot about Kubernetes, first and foremost, the various ways to pronounce kubectl, a command line tool for controlling Kubernetes clusters. 😜 Some might argue that it’s pronounced “kube control” but my brain just unfailingly chooses to go with an almost Mayan-sounding pronunciation: “queue-bektl”. Don’t @ me, okay! 🤷

So, moving on from the truly riveting kubectl debate, I’ve compiled a non-exhaustive list of recent new things that could get devs excited, from GitHub slash commands to running AI locally.

📚 Learning something new

So, as I said above, I’ve learned a lot of new things in the last few weeks. One of the many things new to me was Load Balancing. I came across this excellent explanation of how Load Balancing works and found it extremely helpful.

It’s well structured; it doesn’t imply anything, explains everything, and is well written. Overall, something to make me, as a tech content specialist, extremely excited. And if you want to learn about Load Balancing as well, it’s a great resource to start with. Try not to get mesmerized by the visualizations! 😵‍💫

💻 Trying something new

If you’re a new developer, you intimately know the fear of making your first pull request. I myself have only made no-code contributions to open source so far, and I was still sweating buckets each time. And even if you’re an experienced dev, you can probably still remember that rising panic even if you no longer remember what your first PR actually was.

Bekah Hawrot-Weigel from OpenSauced wrote a blog post to help guide developers to make their first pull request: Writing Your First Pull Request: Tips, Best Practices, and AI-Powered Tools for Success.

🤖 Getting excited about something new

Did you hear you can now run Large Language Models (LLM) locally? Like, in your browser? Because you totally can! Check out WebLLM, an LLM-based web chatbot that runs in your browser without server support. WebLLM runs on Vicuna-7B and is made possible by the release of WebGPU, an API that enables developers to make use of the underlying system’s GPU.

Creating an in-browser sandbox environment for an AI chatbot brings potentially interesting opportunities for the future, such as maintaining privacy while still using AI to help you out with tasks.

The project is still in its infancy, but if you have a Mac with an Apple silicon chip, you can run a small demo of WebLLM in Chrome Canary to see what it’s like. Some folks have tried it already and seem quite delighted with it.

👀 ICYMI

GitHub added slash commands! You can now use forward slash in issues, comments, and pull requests to quickly access markdown shortcuts in text boxes.
Our DevRel team started to live stream recently. You can check out all previous Scaleway Sessions on YouTube, and if you subscribe on YouTube or Twitch, you’ll get notified of future live streams. Please, show our DevRel team some 💜
🇫🇷 For our Paris community: on May 23rd we’ll be hosting a session of the Jam, our community event focused on engineering excellence. We’ll be talking about the culture of mentoring and building confidence at the beginning of your leadership journey with experts from Datadog and Rudder. You can sign up here!
The GitHub + DEV Hackathon 2023 was announced. Build something that benefits open source, utilizing GitHub Actions or GitHub Codespaces, by May 23, and you’ll be in the running to win some prizes. Just build it, submit it, and publish an official submission post on DEV! Good luck!
If you’re new to command line stuff, you might like CLI tricks every developer should know, but I suspect even well-versed CLI users will find some helpful new tricks in this article,… which I low-CLI love. See what I did there? Yeah, okay, I’ll see myself out now. 😆 Until next time! 👋🏻

And May the 4th be with you! ⭐ ⚔️

Cheers,
Kai from Scaleway

Behind the Helm (May 2023)

Dan — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 07:00:00 +0000

This is the web edition of the Behind the Helm, Scaleway's monthly Kubernetes newsletter. For the best Kubernetes news in your inbox every month, subscribe today!

Hello lovely subscribers!

It’s been something of a quiet month in the Kubernetes world (is such a thing even possible?) as we all recover from a hectic April. Nonetheless, we’ve got a round-up of news and tidbits for you to enjoy on your coffee break.

With version 1.27 having been released last month, Google’s Kubernetes Podcast interviewed Xander Grzywisnk, the release lead for 1.27. If you want to know all about the ins and outs of complex software releases, give it a listen.

Kubernetes v1.27.2 was released on the 17th March! As a patch, it’s mostly bug fixes and error handling updates; no major feature releases, but plenty of quality-of-life upgrades. You can read about each of them in more detail on the official K8s blog.

Toronto celebrated its first KubeHuddle on the 17th and 18th, bringing together speakers and community members from around the world. KubeHuddle is a community-run conference series which began in Edinburgh last year, aiming to provide a space for beginners and experts alike to share knowledge and make connections.

For anyone who’d like to get in on all the conference hype without leaving the comfort of your own home, PlatformCon is fast approaching! On the 8th and 9th of June you’ll be able to see talks from DevOps and platform engineering leaders; it’s completely free and completely virtual. What’s not to love?

As for in-person conferences, our very own Devrel team will be off to DevOpsDays Amsterdam in June! We’re looking forward to seeing some awesome talks, meeting colleagues from across the industry, and making new friends. If you’ll be there, let us know so we can keep an eye out!

As always, we’ve attached this month’s crossword. This one is cryptic, but you can pester me on Twitter for hints!

May your CI pipelines never fail,

Yours,

Eli & the rest of the Scaleway team

p.s. Here’s this month’s cryptic crossword!

Behind the Helm (April 2023)

Dan — Fri, 05 May 2023 12:02:46 +0000

This is the web edition of the Behind the Helm, Scaleway's monthly Kubernetes newsletter. For the best Kubernetes news in your inbox every month, subscribe today!

Hello lovely subscribers!

Spring is fully under way, and the Kubernetes image registry redirection has now super-definitely-happened. If you haven’t yet updated your pipelines to pull from registry.k8s.io, get on with it ASAP!

Last month, we started a new livestream series called Call Dr. Kube, where we find K8s experts and pick their brains with tricky questions. Our first session featured Arnaud Alcabas, one of our incredible Solutions Architects—check it out!

This month we were joined by the fantastic Arthur Busser as Dr. Kube. Between Kubernetes, DevOps wizardry, and more, it was a great episode! As always, you can find us on our Twitch and YouTube channels.

On April 11, Kubernetes version 1.27 (codenane: Chill Vibes) was released, including a lot of new features. Of particular interest might be the new capabilities for pods to resize themselves without restarting, allowing for much more dynamic resource allocation.

Earlier this month, the CNCF also completed its third-party security audit of Kubernetes, based on version 1.24; you can read the full report here.

Scaleway hosted our second KubeTalks meetup on Thursday 27th, featuring talks (en français!) from Padok’s Sacha Bernheim, and our very own DevOps engineer Leïla Marabese. Missed out this time around? No worries: see what events are coming up next!

We’ve also got some new K8s articles for you to check out; read all about what’s hot in the tooling world, or if you missed last month’s KubeTalks, this write-up of my talk about user authentication.

That’s all for this month! May your clusters be fully operational, and your deployments smooth.

Yours,
Eli & the rest of the Scaleway team

p.s. If you’d like some K8s-themed fun during your next coffee break, take a look at our crossword!

Behind the Helm (March 2023)

Dan — Fri, 05 May 2023 11:48:38 +0000

This is the web edition of the Behind the Helm, Scaleway's monthly Kubernetes newsletter. For the best Kubernetes news in your inbox every month, subscribe today!

Hi, lovely subscribers!

Welcome to the first edition of Behind The Helm, your monthly dose of K8s news. Today, we’ve got a mix of info about KubeCon EU, interesting new tooling, and some fascinating blog posts for your perusal.

Earlier this month, there were some great community events in Europe. Two Scalers went to KCD Amsterdam and met some awesome people, and if the FOMO isn’t too strong you can read about their experience. KCD Paris was also a roaring success; the organisers spent nine months of volunteer work making it happen, and Scaleway was proud to be a sponsor!

KubeCon EU is coming up! Find out what you need to know about spending time in Amsterdam in this great blog post from Lian Li. Co-located events at KubeCon are also filling up fast, so make sure to register for anything that’s a must-attend for you. Check out the schedule and see what’s good!

KWOK was announced at the beginning of this month and it looks very exciting; it’s a tool for mocking pods and nodes, allowing you to simulate enormous clusters with minimal resource usage. If you’re developing new K8s tooling or stress testing a configuration, it could be worth a look!

The deprecated image registry at k8s.gcr.io will no longer be updated after April 3rd, meaning that if you haven’t switched over to the new one at registry.k8s.io you’ll be missing out on updates including security patches. Get your manifests and Helm charts updated!

David Flanagan of Rawkode Academy is launching a new podcast: Cloud Native Chronicles. It’ll focus on the cloud native landscape, and the first episode features our very own Eli Holderness (that’s me!).

Finally, Scaleway has some great new blog posts out this month covering K8s topics. Learn about load balancing for your cluster, or take a journey into the world of documentation translation and managing open-source communities.

That’s all for this month! May your clusters be fully operational, and your deployments smooth.

Yours,
Eli & the rest of the Scaleway team

PS. If you’d like some K8s-themed fun during your next coffee break, take a look at our crossword!

CTOs share their best advice on building and scaling startups

kfitz — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:34:00 +0000

Scaleway is debuting the CTO Summer Camp, a free, 6-week program for tech leadership.

We teamed up with 50+ CTOs to create this free program, which gives insider insight on how to build and scale infrastructure.

Each newsletter will cover one of the following six subjects:

Building in and on open source code
Open source is generally awesome. But for a startup? Some startups incorporate open source into their business model, while others release their code and draw upon the strength of the community. This week’s newsletter will help you figure out what approach is best for your business.

Scaling
Scaling your business should be a challenge, not a headache. This week’s newsletter will focus on how you can scale while managing costs and creating the resilient infrastructure your clients need.

UX? How about DevX: The new developer experience
A software is only as good as its devs. In this edition of the CTO Summer Camp newsletter, we’ll provide CTOs’ best advice on how to support your devs in this new era of flexible, asynchronous work.

Build vs. run
In this week’s newsletter, we’ll discuss how you balance the desire to build your product’s future with a smooth end user experience now. We’ll get down into the nitty-gritty on this issue, including how to put in place service level objectives and incident response processes.

Managing and retaining top talents
Recruitment. It’s the subject you love to hate. And in the last couple of years, the recruitment landscape has become even more challenging. Luckily, we have some insight from Openclassrooms CTO Romain Kuzniak on how they attract and keep the best talents.

Multi-cloud infrastructure: A help or hindrance?
So many key tools devs use are multi-cloud or cloud agnostic by design. But what about your infrastructure? In the CTO Summer Camp final newsletter, we’ll share input from CTOs on whether a multi-cloud infrastructure really makes a difference for scalability and resilience.

Enroll me in the CTO Summer Camp.

That’s what we’ve got on the line up so far! If there is a topic we haven’t covered that you think we should, drop me a line in the comments. I’m happy to answer any questions you may have too. And I took the liberty of giving you a bit more info about Scaleway and the CTO Summer Camp ⬇️.

What’s the deal with this CTO Summer Camp?
We have the luck to work with really awesome CTOs, who were generous enough to collaborate with us to create this limited edition newsletter for tech leadership.

On that note, you don’t need to be a CTO to subscribe to the newsletter. It’s for anyone interested to build their knowledge on key challenges facing tech leadership today.

Uh, what is Scaleway?
Scaleway is a Europe-based cloud provider with the most complete cloud ecosystem on the continent. We would love to meet you. Join our community Slack to connect with us and other engineers.

10 great open source for CMS & web

Hana Khelifa — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 08:30:51 +0000

Some of my favorite open source tools for web. I wrote a guide on open-source tools here also :)

Strapi
Node.js Headless CMS to build customizable APIs
Builder
Drag and drop page builder and CMS
Plasmic
The headless page builder for singe-page frameworks
Directus
Open Data Platform for instantly turning any SQL database into an API and beautiful no-code app
Webiny
Enterprise serverless CMS
Hoppscotch
API development ecosystem to help create requests faster, saving precious time on development
Keycloak
User authentication and session management framework
Appwrite
Backend server with REST APIs to manage core backend needs
Supabase
The alternative to Firebase to create a backend in two minutes
Nextcloud
Self-hosted collaboration solution

Moving your infra to the cloud - best practices

Hana Khelifa — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:03:22 +0000

Moving to the cloud has its well known advantages... But it is easier said than done. So here are a few best practices to design your migration plan.

Redesigning the legacy

The first thing to do is separating your existing infrastructure in three: the front, the back, and your database. Understanding where you come from and what kind of legacy you are dealing with is crucial. There are basically two types of legacies:

The made from scratch infrastructure

You didn’t automate the deployment of your OS and your applications back then. So today your priority will be to understand it back. Tools exists to c/p the content of your server from your server from another, but you can also retro engineering it.

The automated infrastructure

When you already automated your infrastructures (with scripts to install web servers, databases, etc.), a server is a server. So you would be able to just reinstall what they had because they had the script.
This migration will not require too much energy or money but you won’t be able to enjoy what the cloud has to offer if you simply rehost.

Now that you understand where to start, let’s see what your options are.

Main migration strategies

Rehosting

Rehosting is cost-effective, needs no code change and no architecture change. It has little to no impact: you move the application into the cloud as is. It won't allow you to take full advantage of what the cloud has to offer though.

In some cases, it could be a good alternative if you need to migrate quickly, but don't stop your migration at this point.

Replatforming

Replatforming is pretty similar to rehosting applications on the cloud but you will need to make a few modifications on the app to enjoy cloud functionalities.
The modifications will mostly impact the configuration or the way the application scales, by partly automating your process.

Refactoring

This is when you update your applications’ architectures and alter them in depth. Refactoring is the most complex cloud migration strategy. You may have to make deep changes to your code and architecture, rebuild your deployment pipeline, and carefully test your applications to avoid regressions.

But you will be able to take full advantage of the cloud services (Serverless, Managed Kubernetes), microservices, infrastructure-as-code, containerization and cost optimization.

Replatform best practices

Stop wasting your time scaling your application by yourself, let the infrastructure do it for you.

Infrastructure-as-code (IaC)

Using IaC tools like Terraform enables you to develop faster, deploy in a more reliable way, while ensuring quality.

Version control is an important part of IaC. Since they are files, they can and should be managed by a source control system like any other software source code.

For instance, Terraform is an open-source tool which deploys your infra with an added layer of abstraction.

Deploy or redeploy your code

Instead of deploying your code yourself, and handling all the constraints - such as finding the right time to do it, warning teams and clients, etc. - you can automate the chain of deployment of your application.
By automating the packaging, the tests, and the deployment, you’ll be able to deploy in a quick & reproducible way on different environments (test, dev, prod, etc.).

CI/CD practices will help define processes for a quicker iteration, reducing the margin for human error. You will be able to allocate your spare time to your critical tasks.

What benefits can I get from the cloud now?

Moving your app to the cloud is a great step to start optimizing your infrastructure with cloud products. With a whole new world ahead, and spare time now that you don’t have to maintain your VM yourself, here are a few ideas on what you could do.

Managed services

Focus on your product and let your cloud provider handle the rest.

If you sell chairs online, why bother with self-managed databases when you could let your cloud provider manage your databases, do the hard work, and let you focus on your mission.

Application scaling

The main advantage of the cloud is that it makes your application more flexible and scalable. You can directly use products to do so - such as Kubernetes, which allows auto-scale, or Serverless, which can scale from zero to many. Or you can design your application in a way that will make it easy to use the right amount of resources placed where you need it.

Cost

Cloud products allow you to only consume and pay for the resources you need so your billing is as optimized as possible.

Happy engineer team

You’ll be able to help your engineering team focus more on your product and optimize your application. Enjoy better security, availability, and free your time to focus on tasks that bring more value to your users.

Is a migration worth it?

While moving to the cloud will require time, money, and training, it will pay off in the future - it is an investment for the future.
Now you have all the tools to find a strategy that is right for you. Also know that it can be done one step at a time. And if you have questions about your migration, you can reach out to us at Scaleway.

The content of this article has first been published on Scaleway's blog.