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Tutorials

Guides and instructions

Integrations

Deploying a Node.js Application to UpCloud From Jenkins

Jenkins is one of the most popular open-source automation servers for setting up CI/CD pipelines, and when paired with UpCloud, it becomes a powerful platform for deploying Node.js applications. Jenkins gives you full control over your build and deployment processes, making it ideal for teams that want a highly customizable pipeline. Combined with UpCloud’s high-performance […]

Integrations

Running Containers with Podman on UpCloud: A Beginner’s Guide

Introduction Podman is a container engine that enables building, running, and managing containers. It is usually considered as an alternative to Docker, as they both provide similar functionalities for managing containers. However, they differ in their architecture and the way they run containers. The major difference between Podman and Docker is that Podman is daemonless, […]

Integrations

Deploying a Node.js Application to UpCloud From Circle CI

CircleCI and UpCloud make a great combination for deploying Node.js applications with speed and reliability. CircleCI offers a flexible and developer-friendly CI/CD platform that integrates easily with your GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repository, allowing you to automate builds, tests, and deployments with minimal setup. UpCloud, on the other hand, provides high-performance cloud servers with predictable […]

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 […]

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