We have been issuing and automatically installing Let's Encrypt® certificates for a while now. The only manual thing was the trigger of this process. But today, we are glad to announce fully automated Let's Encrypt certificates for everyone!
We have been working on Let's Encrypt support for quite some time now.
We have a working prototype used for hundreds of domains and it has been running since August 2017 and has handled thousands of renewals without a single hiccup.
To go further, we need to make a small change to the way we route incoming requests.
Changes about data privacy are rippling out worldwide, because of the new law from Europe: the GDPR.
Set to take effect on May 25th of this year, this new law restricts the data that companies can collect, and more specifically, how to store and use these data. So, before using any SaaS tool for marketing, sales or analytics, we have to take a step back, and think about the impact this new tool can have on your GDPR data compliance checkist. Open source and self-hosted tools like Mautic significantly reduce the complexity of your compliance checklist (they also have a great post about it).
Mautic provides free and open source marketing automation software available to everyone; free email marketing software, lead management software and more.
This post is about how you can deploy step by step your own Mautic server on Clever Cloud (within a Europe-only zone) using Git.
It's already been a couple of weeks since we introduced you to our revamped console. And as we wrote at that time, we are not stopping there. We are always working on new stuff to make your life easier.
How long has it been since we have released new features on the console? Some of you might say quite a while and they would be right! That's because – besides the usual small changes, tweaks and fixes – we've been working on more visible things as of late which we are proudly introducing to you now!. Behold! The new console is here.
Today we announce the general availability of our SSH gateway. It was in Beta for a while but is now production ready. All of this means you can now SSH to your VMs \o/.
Since its first
release,
we've been quietly improving our CLI tool, clever-tools. Today, we've
released version 0.7.0, with better support for node 7 and many improvements.
Historically, deployment result e-mails (deployment succeeded or failed) were always sent to the owners of an application, namely the user themselves or the organisation's members.
This changes today.
Hi there, I am Corentin Cailleaud, a second year student at Nantes. It has been already a month since I am in internship here at Clever Cloud. My first mission was to complete the API documentation and this job is now over. Let's have a look.
As you know, security is a big deal for us. You might have heard that a single password may not be enough those days. Well, here it is! Two factor authentication is now available for everyone.
Storing files and assets on Clever Cloud just got easier. After a year of beta testing, we’re proud to release Cellar: a S3-compatible file storage API.
Cellar is faster, cheaper and more reliable thanks to its distributed architecture.
If you’re using FS buckets or storing files in your database, switching to Cellar will make your life easier: files can be directly uploaded to and downloaded from Cellar, without ever going through your application. This way you can handle large files without a hassle.
So, we have been a bit late when it came to supporting PHP 5.6. But we had a good reason for that! We were reworking the PHP scalers to create a single PHP scaler that could handle any PHP versions we would install on it. So we are finally getting PHP 5.6 and 7.0 out in the open.
But that's not all! Previously, selecting your PHP version was done upon application creation once and for all. Changing the PHP version required you to create a new application and to migrate your code (and data).
Now, you can change the PHP version by setting an environment variable and redeploying your application! Just set the PHP_VERSION variable to one of the following values:
- 5.4
- 5.5
- 5.6
- 7.0
Then redeploy your application, et voilà!
You can now test different versions of PHP as much as you want without setting up your
environment every time! In the console, select the PHP (beta) application type when creating a new app. Once the beta will be over, you will see only one PHP option instead of PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.5.
Two things, today: the Clever Cloud public API is here and so is the Clever CLI. Let's have a look at these new things we're thrilled to release today!
We are excited to announce two new scalers with smaller prices. The Pico and the Nano scalers. That was one of the most requested features this year, and we are glad to announce its general availability today.
Change is happening in the Node landscape.
A group of rebels forked the main Node project, tired to wait for new versions and ES6 features.
Their goal is to provide a npm compatible framework that always runs over the latest V8 version.
The underlying goal is to profit from ES6 features that are being implemented in V8.
Today, Clever Cloud gives you the possiblity to run your io.js app in the cloud.
Geoffroy Couprie is a consultant in software security and a independant developer. After testing Clever Cloud for a while, he challenged himself trying to run Smalltalk on our PaaS. Here's the recap of his findings.
The Smalltalk world offers a radically different way to create and run software, and I have always loved to tinker with it. Thanks to the recent work around Docker at Clever Cloud, it is now possible to run Pharo Smalltalk apps, even Seaside ones, on this PaaS.
We believe in simplicity. We’re on a mission to make the deployment and the application developement easier and safer. That's why months ago, we started to work on Docker support, hand in hand with Docker Inc, to allow “Dockerized” apps on Clever Cloud.
Deploying Docker apps on Clever Cloud is as easy as deploying a regular app: just add a Dockerfile and git push.
We've just released a new feature in the domain names management!
You can define for your domains a wildcard to match every sub-domain, meaning you don't need to define each sub-domain separately anymore!
Last february, we've made a massive pricing update. With hindsight, we felt the need the make a more linear pricing for the scalers, and add an in-between offer for the databases.
Today we are releasing a brand new database service which features better performances, more storage and new plans. This new DB are now the default for all apps.
Version française en-dessous
After three months of development and testing we are pleased to announce that MongoDB is open for beta access on our platform. This service has been highly requested by our users and we are glad to finally provide it!
French version below
Another kind of 'external' DBs
Until now, databases hosted on Clever Cloud were only available from within the hosted apps. Since it was impossible to use external DB management software, it was a bit cumbersome to import or export data.