Open Source

Announcing Kafka-on-Pulsar: bring native Kafka protocol support to Apache Pulsar

This post has been published on both the StreamNative and OVHcloud blogs and was co-authored by Sijie Guo, Jia Zhai and Pierre Zemb. Thanks Horacio Gonzalez for the illustrations! We are excited to announce that StreamNative and OVHcloud are open-sourcing “Kafka on Pulsar” (KoP).  KoP brings the native Apache Kafka protocol support to Apache Pulsar

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

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

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Celery Director

Introducing Director – a tool to build your Celery workflows

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

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Jerem: an agile bot

Jerem: An Agile Bot

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

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Contributing to Apache HBase: custom data balancing

Contributing to Apache HBase: custom data balancing

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

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The OVHcloud to Protect & Support Innovation

The OVHcloud strategy to promote and protect innovation

During the OVHcloud Summit last October, we announced the recent filing of 50 patent families.  These patent applications obviously concern our “hardware” innovations (you know that we manufacture our servers, racks, cooling systems…) but also software patents, because contrary to popular belief it is possible to patent certain software (under certain conditions, but this is not the subject

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DepC by OVHcloud

Introducing DepC: the OVH platform for computing QoS

At OVH, our first mission as a cloud service provider is to provide products with high quality of service (QoS). Whether they are dedicated servers, cloud servers or hosted websites, our customers expect our solutions to be very high quality. And that’s exactly what our teams strive to offer you on a daily basis! It’s

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OVHcloud and Binder

MyBinder and OVH partnership

Last month, OVH and Binder team partnered together in order to support the growth of the BinderHub ecosystem around the world. With approximately 100,000 weekly users of the mybinder.org public deployment and 3,000 unique git repositories hosting Binder badges, the need for more resources and computing time was felt. Today, we are thrilled to announce

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