Tutorials
Browse and discover tutorials and guides on UpCloud products and services as well as popular technologies and our partners’ services.
GitHub Actions Runners are the backbone of GitHub’s CI/CD workflows, executing jobs defined in your pipelines. While GitHub provides hosted runners, many teams opt for self-hosted runners for faster build times, cost efficiency, and custom environments tailored to their workloads. Self-hosted runners are particularly useful for resource-intensive jobs, proprietary software builds, or workflows requiring specific […]
Automation
Integrations
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions provide a powerful and flexible way to automate your software workflows directly from your GitHub repository. With UpCloud’s robust and scalable cloud infrastructure, you can create a seamless deployment pipeline that enhances your development process. Key benefits include: This tutorial will guide you through creating a GitHub Actions workflow to deploy a basic […]
Automation
Integrations
Coolify is an open-source and self-hostable alternative for managed services like Heroku, Netlify, or Vercel. It helps you manage your servers, applications and databases running in containers on your chosen hardware; you only need an SSH connection. In this tutorial, we’ll show how to deploy your own Coolify development environment using UpCloud’s Developer Cloud Servers. […]
Automation
Docker
Web hosting
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
SimpleBackups is an all-in-one backup automation service to quickly and easily save backups securely in your UpCloud Object Storage.
Automation
Backups
Integrations
Ansible is an agentless automation tool that makes provisioning Cloud Servers remotely quick and easy. Here's how to get started!
Automation
Integrations
Kubespray is a composition of Ansible playbooks, inventory, provisioning tools that make quick work of deploying a new Kubernetes cluster.
Automation
Kubernetes
SnapShooter offers easy-to-use backup scheduling and management with a centralised dashboard for all of your Cloud Server backups.
Automation
Backups
Integrations
Terraform is a powerful open-source infrastructure management tool. Make quick work of deploying a high availability web app using Terraform.
Automation
Terraform