@brightbox

Simple and flexible UK cloud infrastructure with awesome support. mastodon: https://xitter.cf/t.co/9tZwrhwtiK

 Leeds, UK
brightbox.com
Joined August 2007
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Brightbox (@brightbox@ruby.social)

33 Posts, 243 Following, 156 Followers · Simple and flexible UK cloud infrastructure with awesome support. #ruby #cloud #rails #devops #deployment #kubernetes

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Using S3cmd to manage files on Orbit object storage brightbox.com/docs/guides/or…
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PostgreSQL 17 now available in Cloud SQL brightbox.com/blog/2024/10/1…
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You can use SSH keys to encrypt messages and files using a tool called age. Very handy for securely sharing secrets with people whose SSH keys you already have. We sometimes use it to distribute credentials to managed customers: brightbox.com/blog/2024/09/1…
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Learn how to use Restic to manage secure and efficient backups to Orbit our UK-based object store: brightbox.com/docs/guides/or…
Screenshot of a terminal running restic backup command

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Check out the new guide to using Rclone with Orbit and give it a try: brightbox.com/docs/guides/or…
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Freshly baked @flatcar Container Linux images are now available in our cloud server image library 🥳 brightbox.com/blog/2024/04/1…
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We're automatically importing the latest Stable, LTS and Beta releases and as with our other official linux distro images, they’re provided unmodified from the upstream source – so you can be sure there are no hidden surprises and everything works as expected 🙂
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Our simple database-as-a-service CloudSQL now supports live resizing database instances! 🚀 brightbox.com/blog/2024/04/0…
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Our #Terraform provider works flawlessly with the #OpenToFu fork and we'll keep it that way. We'll be supporting both: brightbox.com/blog/2024/02/0…
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Solving the Dining Philosophers Problem with systemd: brightbox.com/blog/2024/01/1… #systemd #concurrency
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Here in part 2 we create some systemd philosophers and see what they're contemplating. It's the first time we've had to clarify that fork meant the eating utensil and not the system call: Solving the Dining Philosophers Problem with systemd: brightbox.com/blog/2024/01/1… #systemd #UNIX
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And finally part 3, where we actually solve the Dining Philosophers Problem, using a variant of the Chandry/Misra "hygiene" solution. All with only UNIX, systemd and some bash scripting! brightbox.com/blog/2024/01/1… #systemd #UNIX #concurrency
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Our new simple metrics service is in beta: brightbox.com/blog/2023/09/2…
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There’s no additional cost and you don’t need to do anything to enable these graphs. We've got some exciting future plans on the roadmap for the metrics service, so stay tuned over the next few months 📈
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We've rolled out Live Resizing for all Cloud Servers: brightbox.com/blog/2023/06/2…
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The new RAM, CPU and storage allocations are "hot plugged" and are made available to the cloud server instantly and in most cases you won’t even need to reboot.
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Our container registry now supports public docker images: brightbox.com/blog/2023/06/1…
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Implementing the Docker registry auth API was not at all fun. It's close enough to oauth that we thought integrating it with our own oauth API would be no trouble, but no: It's close to oauth but not quite, so easy to implement it incorrectly!
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Even the containerd developers made that mistake previously, so we ended up needing to support clients that were more oauthy than the API actually allows for!
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