Tutorials
Browse and discover tutorials and guides on UpCloud products and services as well as popular technologies and our partners’ services.
Managed Kubernetes easily automates the deployment, scaling, and management of container workloads but takes a couple of steps to deploy by itself. So, what better solution to combine with Managed Kubernetes than the simple yet powerful open-source infrastructure management tool, Terraform. In this tutorial, we’ll show to set up a Terraform configuration for a Managed […]
Kubernetes
Managed services
Terraform
When deploying a Linux Cloud Server using SSH keys as the login method, the root user account is created without a password. This method greatly improves security but can present challenges if you lose your private key and need to regain access to the server. The first step in the process involves acquiring new root […]
Security
If you’re using a Windows laptop or PC with the PuTTY SSH client, you can create a new SSH key pair using the built-in key generator called PuTTYgen. To generate a new key, open PuTTYgen and click the Generate button. In the Key Generator window, check that the type of key to generate at the […]
Integrations
Security
An Introduction to OpenSearch OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source search and analytics suite. It is a tool that lets you store, search, and analyse large volumes of data quickly and in near real-time. It is typically used for storing items such as data from log files, but it can also handle any type of structured […]
Databases
Managed services
Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system which automates the deployment, scaling and management of containerised applications. UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes offers a fully-managed solution which allows you to create and begin using Kubernetes clusters in just a few minutes. Through Kubernetes, you can manage and orchestrate containers (such as Docker) across multiple hosts. Using Kubernetes […]
Kubernetes
Managed services
UpCloud services
UTunnel is an easy-to-setup VPN as a Service (VPNaaS) provider, offering robust VPN and Zero Trust networking solutions targeted towards small and medium businesses. UTunnel enables easy VPN server deployment and administration, as well as trouble-free user management. UTunnel offers two options to set up your VPN server on UpCloud: the Integrated Cloud option and […]
Integrations
Networking
Security
High availability is practically the bare minimum for modern web services and there’s no better way to increase availability than through redundancy. Creating additional Cloud Servers to host your application is simple enough, however, there’s a chance your resources end up running on the same physical host which in the case of a hardware failure […]
API
UpCloud services
Vertically scaling Cloud Servers is a convenient way to increase resources as your requirements grow. However, making changes to your server configuration usually requires a shutdown which in turn causes downtime to your services. Not so on UpCloud, introducing hot resize! Hot resize on UpCloud allows you to increase your Cloud Server resources while running. […]
Automation
UpCloud services
Besides creating and managing Load Balancers, you also have the option to set up certificate management by creating SSL certificate bundles. The certificate bundles can then be easily applied to your Load Balancer frontends to enable HTTPS. In the Certificates section under the Load Balancer menu, click the Add certificates bundle button to get started. […]
Load balancing
Networking