SKS has reached General Availability
We are really proud to announce that SKS has now been rolled out in all Exoscale Zones and has reached general availability.
Like detailed in our introductory announcement, this also means that starting tomorrow April 1st, 2021:
- SLAs on SKS are fully enforced - PRO version
- Support is fully active
- Billing for PRO clusters begins
- Web portal access will be live
Documentation on SKS has already been extended and will continue to grow in the next weeks.
The service has also already received a list of new features and upgrades:
- Terraform support in the Exoscale Terraform Provider
- Lifecycle management: easy upgrade of control plane and node pools
- Credentials rotation
Happy clustering!
Introducing Scalable Kubernetes Service
Today we introduce SKS - Scalable Kubernetes Service - the last addition to Exoscale consumable infrastructure service.
SKS brings simplicity and reliability to any Kubernetes workload with:
- Fully managed control plane
- Dynamic NodePool attachment
- Integration with NLB
Wide choice of instance types
SKS launches today to all customers with Limited Availability in 3 zones :
- Geneva
- Frankfurt
- Vienna
and sets a General Availability in all zones for mid March 2021 as well as activation of full SLAs on the service.
QNAP QuTScloud - Cloud NAS now available
QuTScloud - a Cloud NAS appliance from QNAP - has been released on the Exoscale marketplace.
For organizations which have stored most of their data on the cloud but lack a good management system to capitalize their digital assets, QuTScloud, as a cloud NAS can provide an excellent data management solution in assisting organizations in optimizing their cloud data and maximizing the value of the cloud.
Version c4.5.3 is now available as a template with a BOYL model.
ED25519 keys for SSH now supported in our portal
ED25519 ssh keys can now be imported in the Exoscale portal. These keys are smaller, faster to generate and verify and more importantly offer better security.
If you do not have one already create a new key pair with ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "strong-key@exoscale.net"
Import the key in the Exoscale portal:
Marketplace: SnapShooter.io backup automation service is now available.
SnapShooter is a backup service that specializes in cloud backups. Supporting provider based snapshot backups as well as on server, database, file system and application backup support.
Connect SnapShooter to your Exoscale account and enjoy easy scheduling of snapshot based backups of your instances. Using the Exoscale API SnapShooter create, manage and prune snapshots based on the settings you provide.
Perfect if you want secure backups that never leave Exoscale, without the hassle of setting up new data management policies.
Introducing the Exoscale CDN Integrated Service
Exoscale Content Delivery Network (CDN) integrated service is now generally available.
The CDN service allows users to quickly deploy a CDN configuration in front of their Simple Object Storage bucket, leveraging the unprecedented scale of the Akamai Platform.
With approximately 300,000 servers in 136 countries and nearly 1,600 networks around the world, over 90% of the Internet users are a single network hop away from an Akamai Edge Server.
The service launches in all Exoscale zones globally and comes with the following features:
- Seamless integration with new or existing buckets
- Dual Stack (IPv4/IPv6) enabled
- HTTP/2 & QUIC Support
- Controllable caching behaviour
- 100% SLA Uptime