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Check out our latest guides and tutorials on UpCloud services and features or interesting cloud technologies.
Tutorials
Guides and instructions
Integrations
Supercharge Your CI/CD: Deploy Lightning-Fast GitHub Actions Runners on UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes: Part 4
Welcome back to this series on supercharging your CI/CD pipelines by deploying lightning-fast GitHub Actions Runners on UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes! In Part 3 of this series, you looked at monitoring, logging, and some common troubleshooting scenarios, including diagnosing runner registration issues, debugging scale-set controllers, and effectively examining logs to resolve operational hiccups. Now, in this […]
Integrations
Deploy Lightning-Fast GitHub Actions Runners on UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes: Part 3
Welcome back to the four-part series on supercharging your CI/CD pipelines by deploying lightning-fast GitHub Actions Runners on UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes! In Part 2, we looked at advanced configurations, including customizing runner deployments, implementing network policies for enhanced security, and setting up autoscaling to optimize costs. In this installment, Part 3, we turn our attention […]
Installing ownCloud on UpCloud server and DBaaS: A Full Setup Guide
Teams often need reliable and secure ways to store, share, and collaborate on files — and ownCloud fits that need well. But getting it up and running isn’t always straightforward. You’ll need to pick the right server, configure the database, set permissions, and handle backups to keep your data safe and durable. That’s where UpCloud […]
Documentation
Information on services and features
UpCloud services
UpCloud is a European cloud service provider offering cloud servers on an hourly billed infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). We provide our users with the computing, storage and networking needed to develop and run applications and workloads in the cloud. We also offer additional services such as a firewall, private networks and backups. On our high-performance IaaS, our […]
Cloud Servers
Cloud Servers offer on-demand availability of computer system resources, including data storage and computational capacity without the need to directly manage the server hardware. UpCloud users are able to deploy Cloud Servers by selecting from the predefined configuration options; General Purpose, High CPU and High Memory plans or by freely allocating resources as needed using […]
Storage
The UpCloud infrastructure-as-a-service is designed around redundancy and high availability, and a core part of it is the separation of computation and storage. The redundancy-enabled storage backends are hosted independently from the compute nodes which allows instant operation failover in case of a fault in any part of the system as well as operational load […]
Tools
System management and API clients
System imaging
UpCloud Packer Builder
Packer is an easy-to-use automation solution for creating any type of machine images. It embraces modern configuration management by allowing automated software installation and setup within Packer-built images. UpCloud Packer builder integrates Packer with our Cloud Servers and makes creating private templates fast! Packer plugin UpCloud Packer builder is a plugin for Packer to simplify template […]
Provisioning
UpCloud Ansible Collection
Ansible is a popular configuration management tool for provisioning anything from individual cloud servers to entire cloud infrastructures. It executes the requested operation by following user-defined playbooks, lists of customizable actions written in YAML, on specified cloud servers. Using Ansible, you can automate all bootstrapping operations, like installing and updating software, creating and removing users, […]
Command-line
UpCloud Command-Line Interface
UpCloud Command-Line Interface, or UpCloud CLI for short, is a text-based user interface to UpCloud’s Infrastructure-as-a-service. It provides a fast command-line tool for accessing and managing your UpCloud resources. Save valuable time with quick commands always right at your fingertips! UpCloud CLI UpCloud CLI allows you to control your Cloud Servers, storage and networking from […]