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Three easy steps to get to your cloud cost dashboard Everyone loves good dashboards. If done well, cloud cost dashboards can give you all the vital information that you need in a single overview. This [...]

At meshcloud we've implemented a declarative API and the biggest challenge has been the declarative deletion of objects. That's why in this blog post I want to answer the question: How do I implement deletion for [...]

Declarative APIs are becoming more and more popular, especially in the context of Infrastructure as Code. At meshcloud we've implemented a declarative API. In this post I want to provide insights into the process and [...]

If you've been in touch with meshcloud, you'll know that we love sheep. And that's because clouds and sheep have a lot in common: They love to be free, rather than locked in a [...]

Learn how to save cloud costs on a strategic level. Deleting unused instances is fine, but here are 3 organizational-level strategies to cut down your cloud costs. From our customers - large multi-cloud enterprises - [...]

For many developers certificates are a black box: It is old tech with terrible documentation and the underlying encryption is complex and hard to understand. This practical guide to TLS/SSL certificates will help you [...]

Enterprises plan their cloud transformation carefully and thoroughly. And that's exactly what they need to do in order to set their cloud journey up for success. But the truth is that many organizations don't have [...]

Organizing your IT the cloud-native way: Read why the creation of a central cloud team needs to be a central piece in your cloud strategy. A cloud journey is as much an organizational journey as [...]

This post gives an overview over important cloud tenant management concepts. If you work as a CIO, as a Cloud Architect, in DevOps or you are just interested in the cloud tenant lifecycle and its [...]

This is a comprehensive overview of cloud identity and access management. If you work as an Enterprise Architect, in a Cloud Foundation Team, in DevOps - or you're just interested in cloud identity and access [...]

This is a comprehensive guide to multi-cloud billing and cost management. If you work as a CIO, CFO, in IT financial management, as a Cloud Architect, in DevOps or you are just interested in cloud [...]

This post gives an overview of OSB API service brokers and introduces an open-source generic OSB using git. If you work as an Enterprise Architect, in a Cloud Foundation Team, in DevOps - or you're [...]

This is an introduction to cloud resource tagging and labeling: If you are concerned with building a cloud architecture, then this blog post is for you! Tagging and labeling is an early stage topic [...]

This is a comprehensive overview over provisioning cloud infrastructure services in 2020. If you work as an Enterprise Architect, in a Cloud Foundation Team, in DevOps - or you're just interested in cloud infrastructure services [...]

Are you looking for Azure tag requirements, AWS tagging documentation or you want to know how to use GCP labels? You have come to the right place! In this post, we want to give you [...]

This is an introduction to cloud monitoring: If you work as a cloud operator or developer or you want to learn about cloud monitoring - this blog post is for you! In this post you [...]

Ensuring continuous compliance in modern dynamic multi-cloud architectures can seem like a daunting task for enterprises on their cloud journey. Achieving and maintaining the required level of compliance across all environments may seem more [...]

A clear cloud exit strategy is absolutely necessary when moving to the cloud. Ensuring both compliance and business continuity - and avoiding vendor lock-in - are the primary reasons. Today, large companies can no longer [...]

The Cloud is the backbone and foundation of digital transformation in its many forms. The - quite literal - foundation for a successful transformation to the cloud is the concept of landing zones. This [...]

It’s been a while since we announced that we’ve been funded for our MultiSecure project. We are still very excited about the great news and have already been working hard on putting our vision [...]

How meshcloud is ensuring operating at full capacity and accompanying our customers through these times to continue their digital journey We enable cloud-native organizations At the very heart of meshcloud’s mission is the dedication to [...]

ITSM tools have been used by large enterprises for ordering and workflow processes for a long time. They provide an easy way to order phones, monitors and other IT gadgets that could make an [...]

As meshcloud, we are proud to look back on a successful year 2019, in which we won multiple new customers. During this time we've had the great chance to accompany different types of companies [...]

tl;dr: Don't build your own (multi-)cloud management platform. We all face limits in time and resources. Don't invest this time and resources into a solution that each of your competitors will have to build, too. [...]

We're very happy to announce that meshcloud is the first corporate sponsor of the Dhall Language Project via open collective. In this post I want to explain how we came to use Dhall at [...]

It’s already been a while. On July 9th, I visited the 2nd EBF Cloud Banking Forum in Brussels. The topic of the day: “Shaping a Multi-Cloud Environment”. Representatives of banks, regulators and cloud providers [...]

On this page, we want to give you an overview of our values and interview process hiring for technical full-time positions in our team. We hope this guide helps you navigate the process successfully [...]

At meshcloud we believe in using the best tools money can buy. Most developers in our team use Linux Workstations with 2x27" 4K displays as their daily drivers. Working with text all day is [...]

In times of digital transformation multi-cloud strategies are often implemented top-down. The CIO decides "We are going to implement a multi-cloud strategy, because we want to avoid vendor lock-in to a single platform." While [...]

Cloud means Multi-Cloud The cloud is the foundation of an efficient IT operation in the digital age. More often than not, one cloud platform is not sufficient for at least two reasons: 1) Different cloud [...]

How you implement cloud computing technologies matters Cloud technologies are an essential tool to increase software delivery performance. They bring the necessary automation and scalability that enables developers to spin up instances within minutes, [...]

During testing of a new migration, we discovered that timestamps in an audit table were suddenly reset to the same timestamp (close to now). That tripped up quite some nerves. After some investigation, it [...]

One cloud is not enough: By now 81% of companies follow Multi-Cloud strategies. That makes it likely, that on top of managing your cloud migration you have to take care of managing the use [...]

Multi-Clouds have been a widely discussed topic among CIOs and IT managers of large corporations in the past years. The "State of the Cloud 2018" report states that 81% of companies follow a Multi-Cloud [...]

The IT requirements of employees are clear: flexible, adaptable and tailored to the processes of the specialist departments. In many companies this requirement is met on their own initiative - past the official infrastructure [...]

Platform services play an increasingly important role in cloud infrastructures. They enable application operators to quickly stick together the dependencies they need to run their applications. For example, when deploying your application and you [...]

You’ve probably been through this: You know you must transform your operations to improve agility and adopt new technologies which speed up your delivery capabilities. You collect information about the candidates – Kubernetes, OpenShift, [...]

“The cloud is just someone else’s computer” This is a phrase you often hear when it comes to cloud computing. So in that case, what would be the point of having a Private Cloud on your [...]

Many developers rely and love the easy database migration FlywayDB provides. Some of you might also use a Galera Cluster on top of MySQL or Maria DB to provide better redundancy and high availability [...]

  The German Accelerator Tech empowers German tech startups to successfully enter the U.S. market. This year about 800 startups have applied for the German Accelerator to take advantage of the extensive program. The winners [...]

Yeah! We are part of the Talking Kotlin podcast! In mid december we had a nice little recording session, where two of our meshPeople talked about their experiences during our Kotlin adoption in the [...]

Many cloud applications need to run some sort of scheduled tasks for chores like processing statistics or doing internal housekeeping. There are two different strategies to implement scheduled tasks to cloud applications running on [...]

To connect to a managed service instance on your Cloud Foundry space, most developers use service keys. A service key is a set of authentication credentials that allows you to connect to your database [...]

This repository demonstrates different ways to deploy Meteor applications on Cloud Foundry. There are at least three different ways to deploy Meteor JS applications on Cloud Foundry: using a specialized meteor-js buildpack using the general node-js buildpack using [...]

A good approach for showing the differences between Java and Kotlin is creating an example application. Therefore, I created a simple Spring Boot application. I converted this app to 100% Kotlin. The project can [...]

In our production system we use Spring Data Rest. We found out that it was too easy to leave a Repository method "exported" by default. We consider this as a security risk because it [...]

Single Page Applications (SPAs) are a popular way to deliver modern web apps. With SPAs, users download executable Javascript code that dynamically renders content in their browser, rather than retrieving pre-rendered pages from a [...]

You are a developer and have been dreaming of someone to take care of deploying and operating your cloud-native applications? With Cloud Foundry you might have found a solution to this. What is Cloud Foundry? Cloud [...]

We look back on an eventful and very successful year in 2017. Many thanks to all readers of our Blog for your support and valuable feedback! In the following we would like to present you our [...]

We are happy to introduce you to a couple of new features that we have been working on in the past couple of weeks. We hope you'll enjoy them. OpenStack upgrade We upgraded our platform from [...]

All pipelines and resources in Concourse belong to a "team". Concourse supports different authentication mechanisms for allowing users to log in to these teams and manipulate these resources. When we just started out with [...]

Even though full Kotlin support is only available starting with Spring 5, writing Spring 4 applications in Kotlin is already working pretty well. You just have to know some of the specialties of this [...]

If you are just about to run your first application in Cloud Foundry, this is the place to start. First of all: Congratulations! Cloud Foundry is a great technology used by developers and it [...]

In the last post we looked at how to persist JSR-363 types like Quantity<q> with Spring Data using a pair of converters to serialize a Quantity to string and back. In this post we [...]

When working with units of measurement it's often useful to apply a prefix to capture the order of magnitude. The SI unit system has a standard set of prefixes based on powers of 10, [...]

In this post we will look at how to persist Quantity<q> types offered by the Java Units of Measurement API (JSR-363) using Spring data. We will also use the very handy Kotlin bindings from [...]

Many applications today deal with measurement data based on physical quantities. The Internet of Things (IoT) has brought us connected sensors that measure things like temperature or force and live-transmit them to applications in [...]

Once you discoverd the possibilities of object storage, you may want to migrate your apps and services to it. When mirgrating a service, you have to move all it's data into the new storage [...]

If you are looking for a way to host your WordPress website and want to enjoy the freedom of the cloud, here is how you do it! This tutorial is based on Cloud Foundry. Getting [...]

If you should ever lose your public key, but still have your private key, you can always compute your public key from your private key. The following command prints your public key to stdout (with [...]

Using application services in Cloud Foundry is a great way to free yourself from the hassle of administering your own infrastructure. Need a MySQL database, a MongoDB or both? meshcloud has you covered. Our application [...]

Our dev team is continuously working on migrating more and more of our backend code base from Java to Kotlin (it has great benefits!). In order to track our progress, we wanted to have [...]

OpenStack Swift offers Object Storage, a fundamental infrastructure service in any cloud offering. Our IaaS team worked hard to bring Swift to all our cloud locations recently. This means customers can now for example [...]

ol li { font-weight:bold; } li > * { font-weight:300; } pre { margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; } I started working at meshcloud about one month ago and from the first day on, I was writing [...]

Instead of a lazy summer break we were working on a couple of great new features for you. We hope you enjoy them. Don't forget, we are always happy to get your feedback and [...]

Multi-Cloud applications are a core business for us here at meshcloud. Therefore, we also put some effort into the integration of several OpenStack locations using federation. After all, meshcloud is a federation of public [...]

I ran into an interesting article by David Linthicum on InfoWorld. He describes the functional deficiencies of private cloud solutions compared to public cloud platforms: The feature gap between public and private clouds has grown so [...]

meshcloud uses Concourse to power our continuous integration pipeline and providing continuous delivery of all components of our cloud stack, from OpenStack to Cloud Foundry deployments and the microservices making up our federation layer. Concourse [...]

To use Loadbalancer-as-a-Service with the HAProxy driver and SSL termination, you usually acquire a certificate from a CA. This results in three files: The secret key you created (PEM format) [...]

Our head of software development Johannes recently presented a talk about our experience building meshPanel to the DarmstadtJS meetup group. The meshPanel is the primary user interface our customers use to create and manage [...]

Learn why Cloud Foundry is useful for your application deployment and see how easy you can speed up your deployment process: A typical use case for the use of platform as a service: The graphic on [...]

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order, which could further weaken the data protection level for non-US citizens (as reported by heise.de). Section 14 of the order of January 25 states: Sec. 14.  Privacy Act.  Agencies shall, to the [...]

The cloud comes along with new approaches to application architecture. One of those is described by the “pet vs. cattle” analogy. In the old way of doing things, we treat our servers like pets, for [...]

At meshcloud, we use a continuous delivery process to deliver cloud infrastructure and software updates. Since we operate multiple cloud platforms on a variety of hardware configurations managed by our partner providers, we need a continuous [...]

What is meshcloud about? Well, about cloud obviously. But to mesh means to take cloud to the next level: We strive to turn cloud infrastructure into what it should be – flexible, ready-to-use modules you [...]