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Browse and discover tutorials and guides on UpCloud products and services as well as popular technologies and our partners’ services.

How to connect Managed Databases to SDN Private Networks

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

How to deploy Managed Kubernetes cluster using Terraform

How to deploy Managed Kubernetes cluster using Terraform

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

How to get started with OpenSearch on Managed Databases

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

How to get started with Managed Kubernetes

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

How to customise Managed Database properties

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

How to enable PostgreSQL connection pool using UpCloud API

PostgreSQL connection pool allows you to serve a large number of client connections to Managed Databases while reducing resource usage.

API

Databases

Managed services

UpCloud Managed Databases

How to configure Managed Databases using Terraform

Terraform offers a great way to build your cloud infrastructure as code from start to finish, including UpCloud Managed Databases!

Databases

Managed services

Terraform

How to benchmark Managed Databases on UpCloud

Sysbench is a popular command-line tool for testing system performance. Here's how to use sysbench to benchmark Managed Databases on UpCloud.

Databases

Managed services

UpCloud Managed Databases

How to migrate MySQL DB to UpCloud Managed Databases

Eliminate the burden of maintenace by migrating your MySQL databases to UpCloud's Managed Databases painlessly with these few steps.

Databases

Managed services

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