Uncategorized

Managing Harbor at cloud scale : The story behind Harbor Kubernetes Operator

/ / , , , , , , , / Uncategorized

Recently, our container platforms team made our “Private Managed Registry” service generally available. In this blog post, we will explain why OVHcloud chose to base this service on the Harbor project, built a Kubernetes operator for it, and open sourced it under the CNCF goharbor project. The need for a S.M.A.R.T private registry After our […]

Managing Harbor at cloud scale : The story behind Harbor Kubernetes Operator Read More »

Open Solidarity

COVID‑19 – One Team – One Company – #Open_solidarity

/ / , , / Uncategorized

Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared on the 30th January, we have been carefully observing how the situation has developed across the globe. Today, depending on the guidelines issued by governing healthcare authorities, our company is managing local situations in all regions where we have teams. We are doing this to guarantee our employees’ safety,

COVID‑19 – One Team – One Company – #Open_solidarity Read More »

Machine learning : from idea to reality

/ / , / Uncategorized

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 »

Doing BIG automation with Celery

/ / , , , , / Uncategorized

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 »

A day in the life of a ProxySQL at OVHcloud

/ / , , / Uncategorized

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 »

Agile telemetry at OVHCloud – Part II

/ / , , / Uncategorized

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,

Agile telemetry at OVHCloud – Part II Read More »

Celery Director

Introducing Director – a tool to build your Celery workflows

/ / , , , / Uncategorized

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 »

Jerem: an agile bot

Jerem: An Agile Bot

/ / , , , , , / Uncategorized

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 »

CVE-2017-9841: What is it, and how do we protect our customers?

CVE-2017-9841: What is it, and how do we protect our customers?

/ / , / Uncategorized

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 »