Since you are currently reading a blog post from a tech company, I’ll bet you’ve already heard about artificial intelligence and machine learning dozens of times this month. And this is perfectly understandable! Health, advertising, gaming, insurance, banking, e-commerce… you name it. Behind the buzz, the reality is here, and we can say for sure that […]
Machine learning : from idea to reality Read More »
Intro TL;DR: You might want to skip the intro and jump right into “Celery – Distributed Task Queue”. Hello! I’m Bartosz Rabiega, and I’m part of the R&D/DevOps teams at OVHcloud. As part of our daily work, we’re developing and maintaining the Ceph-as-a-Service project, in order to provide highly available, solid, distributed storage for various
Doing BIG automation with Celery Read More »
As explained thoroughly in an earlier post, the P19 migration meant we needed to add a new element to our infrastructure… namely the ProxySQL. Life was not easy for it at first, but it soon learned how to handle the diverse range of configurations your websites have, particularly when it comes to making sure the path connecting
A day in the life of a ProxySQL at OVHcloud Read More »
In our previous post, we outlined the reasons that led us to create an Agile monitoring tool. To capitalise on this collective success, we needed to: Establish an efficient, simple and universally-accepted methodology to support the development teams. Set out the different visions necessary for the good handling of a project. Define the micro vision,
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As developers, we often need to execute tasks in the background. Fortunately, some tools already exist for this. In the Python ecosystem, for instance, the most well-known library is Celery. If you have already used it, you know how great it is! But you will also have probably discovered how complicated it can be to
Introducing Director – a tool to build your Celery workflows Read More »
At OVHCloud, we are open sourcing our “Agility Telemetry” project. Jerem, as our data collector, is the main component of this project. Jerem scrapes our JIRA at regular intervals, and extracts specific metrics for each project. It then forwards them to our long-time storage application, the OVHCloud Metrics Data Platform. Agility concepts from a developer’s
Jerem: An Agile Bot Read More »
Recently, a previously-identified CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) security breach, CVE-2017-9841, was thrust back into the spotlight, thanks to PrestaShop‘s security alert. Unfortunately, it’s already been exploited ‘in the wild’ for a while now. What are the risks ? The CVE-2017-9841 vulnerability lets a malicious user remotely run PHP code on fallible websites, by exploiting
CVE-2017-9841: What is it, and how do we protect our customers? Read More »
In today’s blogpost, we’re going to take a look at our upstream contribution to Apache HBase’s stochastic load balancer, based on our experience of running HBase clusters to support OVHcloud’s monitoring. The context Have you ever wondered how: we generate the graphs for your OVHcloud server or web hosting package? our internal teams monitor their
Contributing to Apache HBase: custom data balancing Read More »
“You don’t have a chance.” “You’re already dead.” “You’ll get eaten alive.” For the last 21 years, I’ve heard people say these things several times a week. They’re often said by people who don’t really understand what OVHcloud does. Never by people in the field. I don’t blame them. They’re clearly thinking “It can’t be
If I were an American… Read More »
What is a snapshot in OpenStack/OVHcloud Public Cloud? A snapshot is a mechanism that allows you to create a new image from a running instance. This mainly serves two purposes: As a backup mechanism: save the main disk of your instance to an image and later boot a new instance from this image with the
Create and use OpenStack snapshots Read More »
