While attendees enjoyed our live demonstrations proving that these new features were more than just announcements, we have continued to improve our platform ever since. What has changed in practice? Here’s an overview.
Two new zones, Paris certified HDS
The first big change, awaited by many customers, was our HDS certification for the infrastructure we have in Paris (parhds). It complements our ISO 27001:2022 certification, and enables us to better serve customers requiring a secure, sovereign offering, with the simplicity of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
Although not always visible from the outside, the opening of new zones has been a major focus for several of our teams in recent months, whether it be our expansion in France, the opening of the London zone (ldn) on Ionos infrastructure, or even the setting up of private zones or “air gap” for dedicated customers. Indeed, one of the key promises of Clever Cloud is its versatility: we deploy wherever you need us.
A new process for our images, full of new features
We’ve been working for almost a year on a major overhaul of our images, the way we build them, test them and make them available to you. With one key objective: to increase the pace of updates and to multiply the number of enhancements.
This has been a gradual process over the months, and it’s now complete: every Clever Cloud runtime is integrated into this fully automated process. It has already enabled us to deliver simplified version management for Node.js and Varnish, support for Docker Buildx, a faster git clone, Java 24, native support for Bun (JavaScript) and uv (Python) for your deployments.
We’ve also added Request Flow, a feature that lets you easily configure services such as Redirection.io, Varnish, or a reverse proxy of your choice, with automatic port management.
Four new runtimes
It’s also this image overhaul that enables us to provide FrankenPHP, Linux, Static and V runtimes. The first is the fruit of discussions with our friends at the Les Tilleuls cooperative, co-founded by Kévin Dunglas, who also created FrankenPHP.
When we first saw the project, we were impressed by the ease of use of this tool and the possibilities it unlocks for the PHP ecosystem. We wanted to be one of the first Cloud Service Providers to offer it to our customers. It’s done: deploying a PHP application on FrankenPHP requires no effort and very little adaptation. Give it a try and let us know what you think.
Linux runtime lets you deploy any kind of application on Clever Cloud, with the help of the Mise package manager which is now in all our images. Static is an overhaul of our static site hosting offering, with greater flexibility, lighter, more modern web servers, and automatic build via generators such as Astro, Docusaurus, Hugo, mdBook, Mkdocs, Nuxt.js, Vitepress or Zola. V, as its name suggests, lets you exploit the possibilities of V language and its native web server.
- Learn more about FrankenPHP runtime
- Learn more about Linux runtime
- Learn more about Static runtime
- Learn more about V runtime
The Console and Clever Tools at your service
Our work over the last few months has not simply involved extending the Clever Cloud offering, but also making it easier to use through our various integrations and interfaces. For example, we’ve updated our JavaScript client, our Rust SDK, added support for products in the Clever Kubernetes Operator or our Terraform provider.
The Clever Cloud Console now offers a better interface for managing OAuth Consumers, OAuth tokens and web sessions. We’ve also added tips on how to use various features with Clever Tools or the API via cURL, which you can display with just one click and then use directly.
This focus to ease your use of Clever Cloud was also behind the 3.13 release of Clever Tools, where many commands have been revised with this in mind. They also include features for direct management of your account e-mails, SSH keys and managed services such as Keycloak, Matomo, Metabase or Otoroshi, which you can now update with a simple command.
Generate API Tokens
Clever Tools and Console have shared the implementation of another major feature: the creation and management of API Tokens. They allow you to use our public API with a simple bearer token without the need for an OAuth Consumer/Token.
This will greatly simplify your own Clever Cloud integrations, scripts and other CIs.
Many more improvements to discover…
But that’s not all, and the list of new features added to Clever Cloud in recent months is extensive, from support for Redis 8 with the JSON module active by default, PostgreSQL 17, now used as the default version, Matomo 5.3, Metabase 55, the use of PHP 8. 4 by default, the availability of Clever Tools via WinGet on Windows, the activation in Otoroshi of the Biscuit Studio, API and workflow functionalities, cost and ecological impact analysis in the LLM extension, with support for audio and image models, simplified linking of API management information to your applications.
As we announced in March, Network Groups are now in production and available to all. They enable you to create a secure link between your applications, add-ons and your own machines, using the Wireguard protocol. We’re continuing to improve this functionality and extend it across our services.
… and more to come
What’s next? A few days ago, we passed a significant milestone concerning our managed Kubernetes offering using Materia Etcd, developed with one of our customers and whose opening to more users is being prepared over the summer.
We’ve spent the last few months fine-tuning Clever AI to make it easier for you to use AI models, particularly in a teamwork, enterprise context, with monitoring, management and high-availability needs. Presented at Vivatech, it will also open up to a growing number of customers this summer and then starting in September.
We’ll be continuing with our secrets management solution (KMS), Materia Time Series (TS) based on Warp10, a major milestone for our Redis® compatible distributed Key-Value solution (Materia KV), and our Function-as-a-Service (Faas).
Clever Cloud, a cloud like no other
All this hard work has not prevented us from defending our values, our vision of a sovereign, comprehensive and easy-to-use European cloud, whether at Micode, in government ministries, by supporting startups or through our participation in collaborative projects such as CollabNext. We also announced a strategic partnership with Grist, Octopize, simplified Docs deployment, worked with Kazakhstan and QazCloud as we did last year for Clever Cloud Africa.
Want to find out more about our products and actions? Follow our live demonstrations on YouTube, our podcast Message à caractère informatique (MACI), our Shorts, our demos and open source projects, or even our webinars such as the one on our Managed Keycloak offering, with secure multi-instances (via Network Groups).
In short, if you thought the last six months had profoundly changed (your way of seeing) Clever Cloud… wait until you see whats coming next…