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Exploring OpenToFu: A Fork of Terraform

In the world of infrastructure as code (IaC), Terraform has been a stalwart companion for nearly a decade. However, recent changes in its licensing have left...

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Solving the Dining Philosophers Problem with systemd - Part 3

This is part 3 of a 3-part series where we solve the Dining Philosophers concurrency problem using just UNIX, systemd and some bash scripting! In part 2 we ...

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Solving the Dining Philosophers Problem with systemd - Part 2

This is part 2 of a 3-part series where we solve the Dining Philosophers concurrency problem using just UNIX, systemd and some bash scripting! In part 1, we...

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Solving the Dining Philosophers Problem with systemd - Part 1

Over the years, developers seem to have forgotten that Unix is a Programming Environment and not just something you must install to access your web server. U...

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New Simple Metrics Service in Beta

I’m pleased to announce the initial beta launch of our simple metrics service which makes a selection of graphs available for Cloud Servers, Cloud SQL Instan...

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Live Resize Cloud Servers without rebooting

Resizing Cloud Servers has always been possible but required snapshots and some inevitable downtime; a frustrating experience if you need to resize because y...

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Container Registry now supports public docker images

Since announcing our container registry back in 2019, usage has grown and it has become a critical part of our service. And with the continued adoption of Do...

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Building Docker images with GitHub Actions

Here’s how to automatically build docker images and push them to the Brightbox Container Registry using a GitHub Action. Setup the container repository Fir...

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Image Registration with HTTP

All new Brightbox cloud servers are built from an initial Server Image which provides the base operating system. We provide several official up-to-date image...

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Kubernetes and Block Storage Volumes

Back in June we announced Block Storage Volumes which (amongst other things) can make running Kubernetes easier by allowing storage to be moved between serve...

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New AlmaLinux 8 and 9 official images available

We’ve been providing CentOS images for cloud servers for many years now. In December 2020, RedHat announced that CentOS 8 would be the last version to be a 1...

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Cloud SQL Improvements and Version Updates

Over the past few months we’ve been working on some major improvements to the backend infrastructure for Cloud SQL – our simple Database-as-a-Service – with ...

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