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Building Docker images with GitHub Actions

Here’s how to automatically build docker images and push them to the Brightbox Container Registry using a GitHub Action. Setup the container repository Fir...

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Image Registration with HTTP

All 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...

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Kubernetes and Block Storage Volumes

Back in June we announced Block Storage Volumes which (amongst other things) can make running Kubernetes easier by allowing storage to be moved between serve...

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New AlmaLinux 8 and 9 official images available

We’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...

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Cloud SQL Improvements and Version Updates

Over 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 ...

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New Orbit Storage Authentication Options

It’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...

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New Block Storage Volumes in Beta

If 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...

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Wrapping and unwrapping errors in Go

As 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,...

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A couple more uses for generics in Go

As 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,...

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Generating Go Enumerations (Enums) That Work

As 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,...

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New Windows Server 2019 Image

It’s been 9 years since we first released the first Windows Server 2008 cloud server image and so we are just about due for an updated image! So, I’m please...

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IPv6 Cloud IP addresses are changing

We first launched our “floating” Cloud IPs feature over 10 years ago with IPv4-only public addresses, enabling customers to decouple their applications from ...

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