Engineering Blog

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.