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2026 02 16 clever cloud banniere blog keycloak manage fr 2

New IAM feature: what our Managed Keycloak offers today

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.
Engineering
2026 02 10 clever cloud banniere blog elasticsearch observabilite en 1

Elasticsearch Observability: logs, metrics, and traces explained

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.
Engineering
2026 02 10 clever cloud banniere blog elk stack en 1

ELK Stack: what it is used for and how to use it for observability

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.
Engineering
2026 02 11 clever cloud banniere blog iam en

Identity Access Management: pillar of security and compliance

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

Engineering
2025 12 02 clever cloud banniere blog variables de deploiement en 1

Deployment variables got more consistent

When deploying your applications to Clever Cloud, you can configure the build and start of your application or secondary services using Environment Variables.
Engineering
2026 02 19 clever cloud banniere blog top meilleurs iam open source en

8 open source IAM solutions to structure access management

Identity and Access Management (IAM) defines how an organisation controls access to applications, APIs and data.
Engineering
2025 11 07 clever cloud banniere blog wordpress  keycloak en

Manage your WordPress identities with Keycloak

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.
Engineering
2025 10 01 clever cloud banniere blog serveurs mcp en

Building Smarter MCP Servers — From Theory to Practice

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

Engineering
2025 06 23 clever cloud banniere blog migration cloud en 3 1

Why we (finally) built our own managed Kubernetes

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.
Company Engineering
2025 06 23 clever cloud banniere blog migration cloud en

What is cloud migration?

Cloud migration represents a strategic step for organisations looking to transform their digital infrastructure.
Engineering
2025 05 16 clever cloud banniere blog serveurs mcp en

Understanding MCP servers: generic vs. domain-specific approaches

In a world where Large Language Models (LLMs) can access vast libraries of data, having the right guidance makes all the difference.
Engineering
2025 05 15 clever cloud banniere blog keycloak en

Keycloak: why choose a managed solution rather than doing it yourself?

Keycloak is the benchmark for managing identity and access in applications. It offers a rich range of functions: single sign-on, federation, MFA, fine-grained role management.
Engineering
2025 04 15 clever cloud banniere blog clever kubernetes operator en

Simplify the management of Clever Cloud services via Kubernetes with our new operator

For the past two years, we've been enabling our customers to combine the ease of deployment of Clever Cloud with an existing Kubernetes infrastructure through an operator.
Engineering
2025 03 25 clever cloud banniere blog postgresql en

PostgreSQL 16 and 17 available on Clever Cloud, migrate effortlessly

After upgrading our infrastructure and working hard over the last year to improve the quality of our service and accelerate new product releases, we're delighted to announce the availability of PostgreSQL 16 and 17 on Clever Cloud.
Engineering
2025 03 21 clever cloud banniere blog n8n en

Automating Slack summaries with n8n, Clever Cloud, and LLMs

Introduction: The challenge of information overload

As a Developer Relations professional, I engage with multiple…

Engineering
docs scaled

Deploy Docs on Clever Cloud

The open-source alternative to Notion, a French government initiative in collaboration with Germany, has become…

Engineering
2025 03 05 clever cloud banniere blog paas en

What is a PaaS? (Platform as a Service)

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a turnkey model offering a complete development environment, without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure.
Engineering
2025 09 17 clever cloud banniere blog frankenphp en 2

Container as a Service (CaaS): understanding the model

Container as a Service (CaaS) is a model that simplifies the deployment and management of containers without having to handle the underlying infrastructure. This model is part of the broader evolution of cloud computing, alongside IaaS, PaaS, DBaaS, and FaaS.
Engineering
2024 12 17 clever cloud banniere blog clever tools fr 2

Clever Tools: a year of enhancements for your deployments, on the road to v4

A command line interface (CLI) is at the core of developer experience. At Clever Cloud, we have been providing Clever Tools for almost 10 years.
Engineering Features
2024 12 16 clever cloud banniere blog markitdown as a service en

Markitdown-as-a-Service: from AI to production on Clever Cloud

Every day, new tools are released, AI brings new perspectives, you have new ideas. It's one of Clever Cloud's missions to help you to develop and test them in real-life conditions, effortlessly, before making them available to everyone.
Engineering