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Solutions at OVHcloud to overcome the Docker Hub pull rate limits

For the past few months, Docker has been announcing the implementation of new pull rate limits for the Docker Hub. The most significant change is the 10 pulls-per-hour limit, per IP address, for unauthenticated users that can quickly lead to a “You have reached your pull rate limit” error message. Even if these changes have […]

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A brief retrospective of network-layer DDoS attacks in 2024 at OVHcloud

[15 min read] This article is primarily intended for an international audience of networks professionals, information security specialists, security researchers and technical stakeholders. Whether or not you belong to the target audience, but particularly if you do not, please be mindful of your conclusions. Table of Contents 1. Introduction Welcome to this brief retrospective about

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Bare Metal Pod: Genesis

Today, we’re going to embark on a journey of discovery, and unveil our latest product: Bare Metal Pod. You know us for the services we provide: bare metal servers, managed and unmanaged virtualisation platform, our 40+ public cloud services, domain names and telco. This is just the tip of the iceberg, and to understand why

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Deep Dive into DeepSeek-R1 – Part 1

Introduction A few weeks ago, the release of the open-source large language model DeepSeek-R1 has taken the AI world by storm. The Chinese research team claimed their new reasoning model was on par with OpenAI’s flagship model o1, open-sourced the model and gave details about the work behind it. In this blog post series, we

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Mistral Small 24B served with vLLM and AI Deploy – a single command to deploy an LLM (Part 1)

You are not dreaming! You can deploy open-source LLM in a single command line. Deploying advanced language models can be a challenge! But this sometimes this arduous task is becoming increasingly accessible, enabling developers to integrate sophisticated AI capabilities into their applications. In this guide, we will walk through deploying the Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501 model using vLLM

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Falco plugin for OVHcloud MKS Audit Logs

Enhancing Kubernetes Security: Detecting Threats in OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster (MKS) Audit Logs with Falco

Several month ago we discovered Falco, a Cloud Native near real-time threats detection tool, and we saw how to install it on an OVHcloud MKS cluster. Today we will connect our Falco instance to a MKS cluster in order to retrieve Kubernetes Audit Logs events and watch if everything is OK in our cluster. Concretely,

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Release of DeepSeek-R1 on OVHcloud AI Endpoints

🚀 We are thrilled to announce the release of Deepseek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B on AI Endpoints! Distilled from Deepseek-R1, a powerful model excels in math, coding, and reasoning tasks. With AI Endpoints, you can integrate this model into your applications without needing extensive AI expertise. Our platform is designed with simplicity, security, and data privacy in mind, ensuring

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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) on OVHcloud – part 2: Pulumi

In our previous article, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) on OVHcloud – part 1: Terraform / OpenTofu, we saw that deploying manually take time and it’s complicated. That why Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is powerful and allow you to automate infrastructure provisioning. But do you know that Terraform/OpenTofu is not the only tool that exists? In

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🧠AI Concepts in a Nutshell: LLM Optimization

RAG vs. Fine-Tuning Choosing the Right Method for External Knowledge In AI development, incorporating proprietary data and external knowledge is crucial. Two key methodologies are Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and fine-tuning. Here’s a quick comparison. 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐑𝐀𝐆) 🔍 RAG combines an LLM’s reasoning with external knowledge through three steps:1️⃣ Retrieve: Identify related documents

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Create Kubernetes clusters with OVHcloud Managed Rancher Service

Container orchestration is now essential for modern application deployment, providing scalability, flexibility, and resource efficiency. It has become common to have to manage several Kubernetes clusters, but doing so effectively requires the right tools. Fortunately, OVHcloud offers a solution that enables you to manage all your Kubernetes clusters from a single, centralized management tool: Managed

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