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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.
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.
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.
Identity Access Management: pillar of security and compliance
Identity Access Management (IAM) is now one of the foundations of information system security and governance.…
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.
Building Smarter MCP Servers — From Theory to Practice
A few months ago, I published an article introducing MCP servers. Since then, I’ve…
Deploy your PHP applications effortlessly with FrankenPHP on Clever Cloud
This year, PHP will celebrate its 30th anniversary. This ecosystem, which has grown and evolved alongside the web over time, has constantly reinvented itself. At Clever Cloud, it is one of the most popular runtimes, as it is the second most deployed after Node.js/Bun.
What is cloud migration?
Cloud migration represents a strategic step for organisations looking to transform their digital infrastructure.
What is native cloud?
The world of software development is changing at breakneck speed. In an economic environment where digital technology plays an increasingly central role, companies are looking to create applications that are ever more responsive, scalable and resilient.
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.
Deploy Brinjel on Clever Cloud
Brinjel is an open-source field management software designed for market gardeners, helping them plan seasons, track harvests, and optimize agricultural production.
Created by and for market gardeners, it emphasizes an intuitive interface and features tailored to real-world needs.
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.
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.
Automating Slack summaries with n8n, Clever Cloud, and LLMs
Introduction: The challenge of information overload
As a Developer Relations professional, I engage with multiple…
Why choose a French cloud?
At a time when data security and compliance with European standards have become key concerns, this question is becoming increasingly crucial.
What is cloud computing?
Cloud computing is much more than just a trend: it's revolutionising the way businesses use, manage and optimise their IT resources.
Materia KV: our easy-to-use serverless key-value database is available to all
Clever Cloud was born out of a desire to make life easier for developers, by providing them automation tools and interfaces, so that they can concentrate on their applications and sites.
Materia KV, Functions: discover the future of Clever Cloud at Devoxx Paris 2024
Clever Cloud is proud to present its new range of serverless products: Materia!
Our new logs interface is available in public beta
You can now discover our new log stack interface and its new features!
Metrics: Offloading billions of datapoints each month
Metrics are crucial to the day-to-day running of our platform. Here's how we've automated the archiving process.