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Operationscert-manager with Scaleway DNS: wildcard certificates via DNS-01
Your domain lives at Scaleway, you need *.example.com – and cert-manager knows Cloudflare and Route 53, but not Scaleway. How wildcard certificates via DNS-01 reach the cluster with Scaleway’s own webhook, pitfalls included.
- TLS
- Scaleway
- Kapsule
SecurityCLOUD Act and GDPR: what your choice of cloud provider means for SaaS
“But the data is in Germany” does not answer the CLOUD Act question. What the US law allows, where the Data Privacy Framework stands, and what SaaS companies should check when choosing a cloud provider.
- Compliance
- Scaleway
OperationsRestoring a PostgreSQL backup without overwriting the live database
A migration has damaged 2,300 invoices, and the 3 a.m. backup is there. Restoring it over production wipes out everything since 3 a.m. Why a restore belongs in a new database – step by step with pg_restore.
- Databases
- Backups
- Scaleway
OperationsS3 versioning is not a backup: protecting buckets with Object Lock
A clean-up job deletes 180,000 product images and versioning saves the day – this time. Why versions are not a backup, what replication does not do, and what a bucket backup with Object Lock looks like.
- Backups
- Scaleway
- Compliance
ArchitectureScaleway Kapsule vs. AWS EKS: managed Kubernetes in Europe compared
A free control plane against $73 a month, Cilium on a private network against the VPC CNI, API keys against Pod Identity: a fair comparison of Kapsule and EKS – including where EKS comes out ahead.
- Kapsule
- Scaleway
- Migration
ArchitectureA Heroku alternative in Europe: from PaaS to your own cloud without a platform team
Since February 2026 Heroku has stopped building new features. What you have to replace when you move – from the build to the Postgres add-on –, which options exist in Europe and how the migration works, step by step.
- Migration
- Scaleway
- CI/CD
ArchitectureKubernetes hosting or bring your own cloud? Who owns your infrastructure
Hosting, managed Kubernetes or bring your own cloud: the three models sound alike, yet they split ownership, billing and operations in completely different ways. A comparison in four questions – and when each one fits.
- Kubernetes
- Scaleway
- Costs
SecurityKubernetes Secrets: why Base64 is not encryption
A Kubernetes Secret is Base64, readable by anyone with the right permissions. Where secrets leak, and what a secret manager, rotation and clean permissions change.
- Secrets
- Kubernetes
- Scaleway
OperationsFrom AWS to Scaleway: what becomes of RDS, S3 and Route 53
Almost every AWS service has a counterpart at Scaleway. The move rarely fails because of Kubernetes – it fails on the database cutover, egress costs and DNS.
- Migration
- Scaleway
- Kubernetes
OperationsKubernetes upgrades on Kapsule without the fear
Kubernetes ships three minor versions a year, and Kapsule supports only a limited number of them. Wait two years and you have four upgrades ahead of you. Better: one per quarter, boring.
- Kapsule
- Kubernetes
- Scaleway
OperationsOne database per service: roles, privileges and the read-only user who sees nothing
The BI user has read access and still can’t see the new table. That’s not a bug, that’s PostgreSQL. And it’s the reason privileges have to be granted in a fixed order.
- Databases
- Scaleway
- SaaS
OperationsWhy your app sees the wrong IP behind the load balancer
Every visitor comes from the same IP, the login limit locks out all customers at once, and the allowlist lets nobody in. That’s not an attack, that’s the load balancer.
- Ingress
- Scaleway
- Kubernetes
OperationsWhat does Kubernetes on Scaleway really cost?
Node prices are the smallest part. Budgeting Kubernetes on Scaleway takes five line items, and the most expensive one is on no price list.
- Costs
- Scaleway
- Kapsule