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Ultimate Sovereignty Clause

Clever Cloud introduces the Ultimate Sovereignty Clause to guarantee lasting digital sovereignty

Clever Cloud is introducing the Ultimate Sovereignty Clause, a contractual mechanism designed to ensure that a cloud service remains sovereign within a European framework, even if its provider were to come under non-European control.
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Advanced Deployments: Clever Cloud launches a second certification

Clever Cloud announces the launch of Advanced Deployments, its new official certification dedicated to advanced deployments on its platform.
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CKE in public beta: managed, sovereign, and properly integrated Kubernetes

Clever Cloud was founded in 2010. At that point, Docker did not exist, and Kubernetes even less. The problem, however, was already there: running our first customers' applications reliably, in isolation, and predictably.
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The DEEP, OVHcloud and Clever Cloud consortium selected to deliver sovereign cloud services for European institutions

Paris – April 17, 2026 – The consortium composed of DEEP by POST Luxembourg Group, OVHcloud and Clever Cloud today announces its selection by the European Commission as part of a major procurement framework to provide sovereign cloud services to the institutions, bodies and agencies of the European Union. This contract, with a ceiling of €180 million over six years, marks a significant milestone in the concrete implementation of Europe’s digital sovereignty strategy.
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OpenTofu: the open-source Terraform fork — natively supported on Clever Cloud

In August 2023, HashiCorp changed Terraform's license. A few weeks later, OpenTofu was born under the Linux Foundation. Here's what it means — and how to use it with the Clever Cloud provider.
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One Framework a Day keeps the Boredom Away: Sinatra

Welcome to this new edition of One Framework a Day keeps the Boredom Away.…

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Rust packaging on Exherbo

At Clever Cloud, we love giving new technologies a try. Since its inception, rust

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How Facebook Infer Can Make your Software Safer

At Clever Cloud, we like giving a try to new technologies when they're released, especially…

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How We Cut Latency Down by 30k% on Our Git Server

At Clever Cloud, git is core in the deployment process. With the years, our needs…

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Building an extensible HTTP client for GitHub in Java

At Clever Cloud, we use a lot of Java. A large part of our API…

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Github breaking changes that require your interaction

A couple of days ago, Github made breaking changes regarding the way other companies can…

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GitHub Login is Here!

As you may have noticed, Clever Cloud added GitHub integration for signup and login…
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Is Clever Cloud Vulnerable to Shellshock?

Did you like [Heartbleed?]({{ site.basepath }}/features/2014/04/08/openssl-101g-update.html) Meet Shellshock — aka CVE-2014-6271 — a new bug…

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Wilcards on Domain Names

We've just released a new feature in the domain names management! You can define for…
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Knowing your system – Part 8 – On the road to upstream

How did I start contributing?

When I started to really dig into my system to…

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Knowing your system – Part 7 – Contributing to Exherboe

The exherbo contribution mechanism

Basically everything regarding exherbo is discussed and managed via the…

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Knowing your system – Part 6 – Source-based distributions: Discovering Exherbo

The limits of Gentoo As I said in part 3 of the "knowing your system"…
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Knowing your system – Part 5 – Source-based distributions: the binary way

We last saw the paludis tool. Now, we'll take a look at how…
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Knowing your system – Part 4 – Falling in love with paludis

Installing a source-based GNU/Linux distribution As we last saw, I'm really fond of source-based distributions.…
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Knowing your system – Part 3 – Source-based distributions: The Gentoo example

After a little reminder on UNIX-like systems and a quick view to the init process,…
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Facron 0.9 released

Usually, every Thursday I publish another post in my "Knowing your system" saga, but this…
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Facron – fanotify cron system

The filesystem cron principle At Clever Cloud, we often have to manage stuff based…
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Knowing your system – Part 2 – The init process

As we last saw, when we start an UNIX-like system, the kernel gives the hand…
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Knowing your system – Part 1 – Basis on UNIX-like systems

This is the beginning of a batch of blog posts which will help you understanding…

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