Engineering Blog

I used the launch of the dedicated GPUs as an opportunity to show off some of the new possibilities it adds to our platform. In this Engineering Blog Post I'm going through the setup of a self-hosted AI chatbot using Ollama and Open WebUI, powered by the DeepSeek-R1 70B model running on one of our brand-new NVIDIA L40S GPUs.

How we collaborated with Puzzle ITC to publish a Fleeting plugin for GitLab, enabling our customers to autoscale their GitLab CI workload.

How do we know how much we should charge for your Object Storage usage? A journey into rgw-metrics.

Set up a highly available Kubernetes control plane using cloudscale's load balancer. This guide walks you through provisioning with Terraform, configuring Kubernetes, and testing failover step by step.

Why we use chmod +x on our playbooks and why that is a good idea.

If a new fridge arrives, the urge to just plug it, fill it with beverages and enjoy a cold one is big. But the setup actually requires quite some steps to ensure that the device runs reliably for a long time with low maintenance, so does a proper onboarding process. In this blog post I will use this odd analogy to describe my onboarding process as a Software Engineer in the Dev Team at cloudscale.

How we restart OSDs in our Ceph clusters to avoid customer impact.