Cloud&Infra

When you think about Google Cloud (yes, Google Cloud, not GCP please!), you think about Big Query right?. What about Azure? That’s Active Directory and Microsoft corp stuff. And AWS? EC2 and tons of infrastructure services. Each cloud provider has its own reputation, and clichés, but there’s one Google Cloud service that I really fell in love when I was working at Google, and that rarely gets mentioned outside of its users (like me): Cloud Run....

Depending on the different needs of a cloud project, you may need to work on multiple virtual machines with a shared networked volume. This can come in handy to avoid duplicating files, collaborating or even saving money on your monthly bill which can quickly add up. Most cloud providers are providing an NFS based product, which allow any virtual instances to get more storage using a Network File System (NFS). For example with AWS, that’s the EFS product....

Since few months now, I was looking for a simple and functional file manager for multiple backends, but mainly for any S3 compliant bucket (AWS, Digital Ocean, Alibaba OSS, etc). The main idea was to be able to use and play training videos from anywhere and quickly as possible, using the S3 protocol and its speed. First, I’ve tried to connect my bucket to a standalone Nextcloud instance, as they’re offering an S3 compatibility....

In many cases, if you want to deploy a software for your project, you have to use a server, or any PaaS related service. You can use Scaleway, as explained here, or any other cloud provider (Vultr, Digital Ocean, etc). These solutions are easy to use, but the bill can rise very quickly if you deploy multiple cloud instances/droplets/VPS/VMs, or whatever you call a “virtualized machine” etc. Today, I will show you an alternative, and how to create multiple VMs on your Hetzner dedicated server with non fail-over IPs....

Since Atlassian has announced the end of sales for Confluence Server version (which is a self-hosted version of Confluence), I was looking for a similar software. Then, thanks to one of my colleague. As soon as you’re starting working on professional projects, even in IT, you will have to create documentations about specific parts of your project. There isn’t any basic and modern software, except Outline. Outline is inspired from Notion....

When I started working at Scaleway, since 2 years now, I’ve figured out, how it can be funny and interesting to self-host a lot of common services. The first service that I’ve self-hosted is my email boxes. I was never a big fan of big email/messaging apps, like Gmail or Outlook, as you don’t really know what’s going on with your data, and privacy… I’ve installed Mailcow, and since this day, I’m pretty satisfied with it....

Even if most of the websites are not directly coded in HTML, and basic CSS, like it was a few years ago when I started studying IT on my own, there is a lot of static website generator, like Hugo, or Jekyll, that may suit to your needs for personal blogs, or just to host some random content. If you’re already friendly with this kind of frameworks, now, you will need to find a place to host these static pages, at a low price....

Since many years now, people are using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to back up their data on specific or internal storage servers. Most of current software are offering an FTP backup option to avoid data loss, and store your backup elsewhere than on your production server. We all know that: backup is more than criticals. In 2006, AWS created a Simple Storage Service called S3. That’s a “basic” storage service, which is built on a non-hierarchic file system....

The final goal of this tutorial is to allow you to login to your Scaleway cloud instance with a password that you will define, and without any SSH key. Please note that this login method isn’t recommended for security reasons. If you still want use it, please be sure that you’ve installed other security softwares like Fail2ban on your Linux machine. Prerequisite: -have a Scaleway cloud instance configured with an SSH key -have an SSH client (Terminal for MacOS/Linux distros, or Putty for Windows)...

The final goal of this tutorial is to connect to your Scaleway cloud instance via Windows. It is mainly intended for novices and/or users who have never used the SSH key logon system. Prerequisite: -have a Scaleway cloud instance -have installed Putty on your Windows computer Scaleway uses an SSH key logon and authentication protocol. Therefore, when your instance is delivered you do not receive a root password. The functioning of the connection system is summarized in the following diagram....