Several weeks ago, I was taking part in a meetup about Kubernetes, when one of the attendees made a remark that resonated deeply with me… Hey, Horacio, that Kubernetes thing is rather cool, but what I would have loved to see is a Functions-as-a-Service platform. Most of my apps could be easily done with a […]
Deploying a FaaS platform on OVH Managed Kubernetes using OpenFaaS Read More »
Like all the players from the IT sector, OVH has been informed on May 14, 2019 of security vulnerabilities following the discovery of hardware vulnerabilities on Intel processors. These new vulnerabilities are similar to previous spectrum and meltdown vulnerabilities and affect Intel’s microprocessors, which are part of the components used by OVH. Researchers have shown
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The problem to solve… How to continuously monitor the health of all OVH servers, without any impact on their performance, and no intrusion on the operating systems running on them – this was the issue to address. The end goal of this data collection is to allow us to detect and forecast potential hardware failure, in
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When discussing the concepts of DevOps and Infrastructure-as-a-Code, the tools developed by HashiCorp quickly come up. With Terraform, HashiCorp offers a simple way to automate infrastructure provisioning in both public clouds and on-premises. Terraform has a long history of deploying and managing OVH’s Public Cloud resources. For example, you can find a complete guide on
OVH Private Cloud and HashiCorp Terraform – Part 1 Read More »
Machine Learning projects are becoming an increasingly important component of today’s search for more efficient and complex industrial processes. OVH Prescience is a Machine Learning platform that aims to ease the conception, deployment and serving of models in an industrial context. The system manages Machine Learning pipelines, from data ingestion to model monitoring. This involves
Prescience: Introducing OVH’s Machine Learning Platform Read More »
Have you migrated a website before? If you have, or will need to migrate websites regularly, you’ll be familiar with the difficulties associated with this kind of operation. To put in the most basic terms, this operation usually involves six steps: purchasing and configuring the destination infrastructure testing the new infrastructure by importing data and
Web hosting — why we decided to migrate three million websites Read More »
One of the key advantages of usisng Kubernetes is the formidable ecosystem around it. From Rancher to Istio, from Rook to Fission, from gVisor to KubeDB, the Kubernetes ecosystem is rich, vibrant and ever-growing. We are getting to the point where for most deployment needs we can say there is a K8s-based open-source project for
Deploying game servers with Agones on OVH Managed Kubernetes Read More »
In 2017, many factors contributed to the significant growth of OVH: hiring in Europe; the acquisition of a company in the USA; the construction of 14 new data centers; and the start of activities in APAC. In fewer than 18 months, we doubled the number of employees from twelve hundred to twenty-five hundred. I don’t
The Role of Humans in Digital Businesses Read More »
We’re all familiar with that small snippet of code that adds reasonable value to your business unit. It can materialise as a script, a program, a line of code… and it will produce a report, new metrics, KPIs, or create new composite data. This code is intended to run periodically, to meet requirements for up-to-date
Loops: Powering Continuous Queries with Observability FaaS Read More »
We announced it at the OVH Summit 2018… We were going to double the public bandwidth on OVH dedicated servers, without changing the price. A promise is a promise, so several weeks ago we fulfilled it: your servers now have twice the bandwidth, for the same price! We knew from the start that this upgrade
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