Tutorials
Browse and discover tutorials and guides on UpCloud products and services as well as popular technologies and our partners’ services.
Note! VPN functionality is currently in beta testing with limited availability. Customers can request access to beta features by contacting our customer support. Beta features are exempt from our Service Level Agreement. NAT & VPN Gateways connect Cloud Servers in private networks with external networks. VPN Gateway is used to connect securely to external networks […]
Networking
UpCloud services
Reliable and secure connectivity is an absolute necessity for databases. With UpCloud Managed Databases, you have the option to connect to your database using your account wide Utility Network or the customisable SDN Private Networks. Utility Networks are enabled by default but attaching a SDN Private Network affords you the highest level of security and […]
Databases
Managed services
UpCloud services
When you attach a new floating IP, you can find it listed to one of the servers at your UpCloud Control Panel that the floating IP currently points to. However, using the new floating IP will require some manual setup. Follow the steps below on how to get this done on Cloud Servers running AlmaLinux […]
Networking
UpCloud 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
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
Managed services
UpCloud services
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
Managed Databases offer many benefits over manual maintenance such as ease of deployment, configuration and backups. However, while the default configurations are optimised according to the service plans, some aspects might not be ideal in specific use cases. Therefore, we’ve exposed certain database properties for you to customise via the UpCloud API. Database configuration properties […]
Databases
Managed services