The Commit Log

Sōzu is the reverse proxy that sits in front of every application running on Clever Cloud. After eighteen months of work — first the HTTP/2 multiplexer, built on our existing kawa pivot, then almost every other layer of the proxy, and finally a long run in production on the cleverapps.io load balancers — Sōzu 2.0 is out.

Kubernetes has become the standard for container orchestration. But depending on your infrastructure constraints (limited resources, edge computing, IoT, or large-scale enterprise clusters), the distribution you choose can radically change the operational experience. K3s and K8s (upstream Kubernetes) address different needs, even though both share the same CNCF-certified foundation.

How Clever Cloud reacted to recent kernel vulnerabilities, reduced exposure, and improved its kernel deployment process.

K8S, short for Kubernetes, is an open source container orchestration system originally developed by Google and donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2015. It automates the deployment, scaling, resilience, and networking of containerized applications across clusters of servers. In just over a decade, K8S has become the technical foundation on which a majority of modern cloud applications run.

Since January 22, 2025, Clever Cloud has been announcing its own IP prefixes on the Internet in our Paris region. We now manage this critical part of our network infrastructure internally, rather than delegating it to a third party.

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.

European organisations are managing increasingly heterogeneous environments: legacy applications, cloud-native services, multi-cloud setups and regulatory constraints are accumulating within information systems rarely designed to handle such diversity.

Previewed at Devoxx starting April 22, CKE is the culmination of two years of R&D built around a complete reimplementation of Kubernetes.

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.

Public services are engaged in an ongoing digital transformation, driven by increasing user expectations, service continuity requirements, and growing security needs.

Cloudflare has just announced Vinext, a drop-in replacement for Next.js built on Vite. The project is vibecoded, experimental, but the promise is compelling: builds up to 4x faster, bundles 57% lighter, and 94% coverage of the Next.js API. We wanted to see how easy it would be to deploy it on Clever Cloud.

Since its launch, Keycloak as a Service has evolved significantly to meet the concrete needs of businesses and the requirements of operating IAM at scale.

Modern architectures generate ever-growing volumes of data. Microservices, APIs, cloud workloads, and serverless environments multiply potential failure points. In this context, understanding what is really happening in production has become a central challenge.

Understanding what is really happening inside a modern application has become increasingly complex. Microservices, cloud environments, and the growing number of physical or virtual servers all contribute to an explosion of technical signals. This distribution makes so-called “traditional” log analysis—based on directly connecting to a single machine—hard to sustain at scale.

Identity Access Management (IAM) is now one of the foundations of information system security and governance.…

When deploying your applications to Clever Cloud, you can configure the build and start of your application or secondary services using Environment Variables.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) defines how an organisation controls access to applications, APIs and data.

Managing logins to your website can be a complex task. Fortunately, tools like Keycloak, an open-source Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution, can make it much easier to handle authentication and authorization for your application.

A few months ago, I published an article introducing MCP servers. Since then, I’ve…

At Clever Cloud, we held off for a long time before offering a managed Kubernetes service. Not out of technological reluctance, Kubernetes is a great tool… but it was never designed to make developers’ lives easier.