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September 2022

9 Key Reasons to Use or Not Kubernetes for Your Dev Environments

We all know that Kubernetes is the best container orchestration tool in the industry. However, it is not frequently used in development environments due to its complexity and time to set up. That deprives you of many benefits you can gain from Kubernetes in the development environment. In this article, we will discuss the pros and cons of deploying Kubernetes in a development environment. We will go through various factors which decide the suitability of Kubernetes for your organization.

How We Built Qovery - Part 1

I am excited to launch a new series of engineering articles to dig into all the details of How we Built Qovery. A platform built for DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineers, and Developers since January 2020. Since day 1, the Qovery team has strived to make Qovery as open as possible and fight against the black box effect! In this series of 5 articles, I will explain as much as possible how things work behind the scene.

Qovery V3: Advanced Settings Building the Path to Beta Testing

Right at the beginning of the summer was the launch of our console V3 in Alpha testing; as explained in this article, the main goal of this V3 was to solve the UX issues present in the V2; it's also fully open source and rewritten from scratch in React. We gathered many feedbacks, and our Frontend team is continuing to add every feature already available on the V2 to go from Alpha to Beta testing at the end of September.

Partnership: Save Your Cloud Costs with Usage AI and Qovery

You are using Qovery, and you love the product, but what about saving some money on your cloud bills on top? Today, we are making your dreams come true with a brand new partnership with Usage AI, and today, I will explain everything you need to know about it.

How to Manage Staging Environments to Speed Up Your Deployments By 5x

The staging environment plays a crucial role in product development. It's the last checkpoint before the product updates are live for customers. Every successful product has a robust and effective staging environment on the back. However, the traditional staging environments cannot keep pace with the modern CI/CD workflow. This article will go through how traditional shared and static staging environments hinder faster deployments and efficiency.

Developer Week Cloud Austin: Hit or Miss?

Hi there, Albane writing, Product Marketing Manager at Qovery, writing to your from Texas 🤠 With Romaric (CEO at Qovery) and Morgan (Co-founder at Qovery), we spent the last two days promoting Qovery at the Developer Week Cloud that took space in Austin, Texas. After weeks of preparation, quite a few hours of travel, and a whole setup, let me give you some insights about our first-ever conference as an exhibitor!

Tech Story: Papershift x Qovery Infrastructure Scaling Made Easy

A few days ago, I chatted with Florian Suchan (CTO and Co-Founder at Papershift) about their journey to easy infrastructure autoscaling. As you will see in the article, they tried a wide range of solutions before finding the right fit; if you feel you’re going through the same journey, this article is for you!

7 Common Kubernetes Pitfalls

Kubernetes is the industry's most popular open-source platform for container orchestration. It helps you automate many tasks related to container management. Companies use it to solve their problems related to deployment, scalability, testing, management, etc. However, Kubernetes is complex and requires a steep learning curve. In this article, we will go through some common Kubernetes pitfalls most companies fall to.

4 Tips With Qovery To Reduce Your Cloud Costs

While the cloud offers significant benefits compared to traditional on-premise infrastructure, its inherent elasticity and scalability lead to uncontrolled costs. Cloud costs can be opaque and difficult to analyze — and without some system of identifying the source of costs and how to manage them — they can quickly undermine your profit margins. Since Qovery makes it easy to create on-demand environments, it can drastically grow your cloud costs.