I’m pleased to announce the initial beta launch of our simple metrics service which makes a selection of graphs available for Cloud Servers, Cloud SQL Instan...
Read blog postResizing Cloud Servers has always been possible but required snapshots and some inevitable downtime; a frustrating experience if you need to resize because y...
Read blog postSince announcing our container registry back in 2019, usage has grown and it has become a critical part of our service. And with the continued adoption of Do...
Read blog postHere’s how to automatically build docker images and push them to the Brightbox Container Registry using a GitHub Action. Setup the container repository Fir...
Read blog postAll new Brightbox cloud servers are built from an initial Server Image which provides the base operating system. We provide several official up-to-date image...
Read blog postBack in June we announced Block Storage Volumes which (amongst other things) can make running Kubernetes easier by allowing storage to be moved between serve...
Read blog postWe’ve been providing CentOS images for cloud servers for many years now. In December 2020, RedHat announced that CentOS 8 would be the last version to be a 1...
Read blog postOver the past few months we’ve been working on some major improvements to the backend infrastructure for Cloud SQL – our simple Database-as-a-Service – with ...
Read blog postIt’s no secret that our object storage system, Orbit, runs Openstack Swift under the hood. The Openstack Swift storage API is widely supported so it’s easy t...
Read blog postIf you’ve noticed we’ve been a bit quiet lately, it’s because for the last several months we’ve been working on what is probably the largest set of improveme...
Read blog postAs part of the upgrade to version 2 of the Brightbox Go API I’ve been using some of the newer features Go has introduced over the past few years: generators,...
Read blog postAs part of the upgrade to version 2 of the Brightbox Go API I’ve been using some of the newer features Go has introduced over the past few years: generators,...
Read blog post