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By Kelley Schultz
When we launched our Governance Gap series, we set out to explore how the explosion of AI-assisted engineering changes the risk profile for modern software organizations. We looked at the rise of The New Software Creator and analyzed why deployment governance is what keeps teams safe when code production accelerates. We also mapped out the realities of security at scale and defined who owns governance accountability.
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By Dimitrios Lisenko
To deploy an application we haven't seen before, we need two things out of its repository. One is a Dockerfile that builds it. The other is a service definition saying what runs, which ports it listens on, which databases it needs, and what environment variables it expects. Customers arrive with a git URL, and we figure out the rest. We even do the tricky task of generating a Dockerfile if it doesn't already exist in the codebase. We've built a solution for this twice already.
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By Kelley Schultz
An AI model can write a fully functioning microservice in about fifteen seconds. If you hook it up to a pull request pipeline, it can generate migrations, write unit tests, and suggest refactors before your lead engineer has finished their first cup of coffee. We are entering an era of unprecedented code velocity. But code is not an application, and shipping is not operating.
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By Vic van Gool
You can deploy on ARM64 servers today across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Hetzner: Graviton, Ampere Axion, Ampere Cobalt, CAX. Pick the chip, pick the cloud, and deploy the stack you already run. There's no feature flag and no waitlist. It's on for every account.
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By Vic van Gool
Traffic sources in Deploy v3 now take an optional URL path alongside the domain. Several services in the same application can share a single domain, split by path: example.com serves your web service, example.com/app your dashboard, and example.com/api your API. One domain, one certificate, as many services as you need. No more handing out a subdomain per service just to get traffic to the right place.
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By Vic van Gool
We are excited to announce support for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon on all Cloud 66 products, including registered servers. From this point onward, new applications are provisioned on Ubuntu 26.04 by default, on both x86_64 and ARM64. Don't forget, you can control your target Ubuntu version via the selection dropdown when scaling up via the UI, or through your manifest!
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By Kelley Schultz
In this series, we have talked about how generative AI is shifting the landscape of software creation. In The New Software Creator, we explored how AI expands who can write code. In When Anyone Can Build Software, Deployment Governance Is What Keeps It Safe, we looked at why the deployment pipeline is the ultimate control point. Finally, in Security at Scale: What Changes When Everyone Can Deploy, we dug into the technical realities of patching, container hygiene, and identity management.
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By Kelley Schultz
In our first series post, The New Software Creator, we mapped out a structural shift in the industry: AI is turning non-technical team members into creators of software. In our second post, When Anyone Can Build Software, Deployment Governance Is What Keeps It Safe, we argued that deployment is the single control layer that can secure this explosion of output without choking innovation.
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By Vic van Gool
A few weeks ago I went to quantify a trend I had already clocked: our test-writing had climbed, and kept climbing. Where a typical month once brought a handful of new tests, last month brought 436.
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By Kelley Schultz
This is Post 2 of The Governance Gap series. Post 1, "The New Software Creator," established that the most significant shift from AI isn't developer speed - it's that the population of builders has fundamentally expanded. Something quiet happened in most engineering organizations over the last 18 months.
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By Cloud 66
Application Groups are arbitrary collections of your applications that can be deployed simultaneously. Groups are not mutually exclusive - applications can exist in more than one group. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”. Useful links.
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By Cloud 66
A failover group is a managed, quick-response DNS address that automatically follows your application's web endpoints. You can connect it to up to two instances of an application at any time - a primary and backup instance. Should you need to switch traffic between your instances, you can flip a switch and your traffic will begin flowing to the backup instance within 5 minutes. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.
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LiveLogs is Cloud 66’s real-time logging interface. It allows you to monitor your app via the Cloud 66 Dashboard. You can set up custom Live Logs via your Manifest file. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.
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By Cloud 66
Cloud 66 aims to make it easier to build immutable infrastructure. Building servers and applications from scratch is much better than modifying existing server configurations and tinkering with settings until things start to work.
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By Cloud 66
Traffic consist of one or more functions that run in a sequence. They run from top to bottom and affect the route that each web request to your application takes. They can also block traffic based on different conditions. If traffic is blocked, it will not run through the rest of the rules that come after the current one. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.
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By Cloud 66
Cloud 66 Team Access Control features: Organizations Organizations are the foundation of team access control. They allow you to manage distinct groups of users, teams, applications and other components. They are useful if you need complete separation between different sets of applications and/or users. You can be a member or owner of several Organizations and switch between them using the top-right menu in the web dashboard or the `--org` option of the Cloud 66 Toolbelt (CLI).
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By Cloud 66
Cloud 66 supports two types of backups: managed and unmanaged. Managed backups: Using managed backups has several benefits: The 100 most recent managed backups are kept by default. Unmanaged backups: Unmanaged backups are stored on your local server and are available under `/var/cloud66/backups`. The 10 most recent unmanaged backups are kept by default. We don’t charge for unmanaged backups. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.
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Database replication involves configuring a master and replica database architecture, whereby the replica is an exact copy of the master at all times. This feature is supported for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB. Database replication can be set up for a single application, between applications, or between database groups. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.
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Cloud 66 offers a range of deployment options for your applications: And there are also two types of Rollouts strategies available: What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.
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What are Preview Deployments? Preview Deployments automatically build and deploy a (private) preview version of your application whenever you commit changes to your repo. The preview runs alongside your active application and helps you to quickly test changes to your code without having to deploy to a separate environment. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.
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Cloud 66 helps developers to deploy code, directly from the repository to their own servers on any cloud.
Discover Cloud 66 products:
- Cloud 66 for Rails - allows developers to deploy and manage Rails, Sinatra, and other Rack-based applications on any cloud.
- Cloud 66 Maestro - offers a full-stack container management service backed up by Kubernetes. You can deploy any application (any language, any framework) to any cloud, as long as you have a Dockerfile.
- Cloud 66 Prepress - builds and deploys pre-rendered, JAMStack applications (Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby) on your own cloud.
From commit to production in minutes. Getting started:
- Connect your Git repository. We will analyze your code and automatically suggest the best configuration for you.
- Connect your cloud provider or server. We are natively integrated with AWS, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Linode, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Vultr, OVH cloud and Maxihost. Or bring your own server and we'll provision it for you.
- Deploy! Once your application is deployed take the advantage of our features to enhance your application.
Features:
- Provision — builds your infrastructure straight from your code.
- Deployment — supports rolling, parallel, blue/green and canary deployment strategies and full deployment history with easy rollbacks.
- Databases - supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, Memcached & RabbitMQ deployment, backups and replication on your own servers.
- Security — provides simple firewall management, stress-free DDoS protection and powerful account security tools.
- Scaling — cloud load balancing, worker process management and horizontal scaling on any cloud.
- Teams — unlimited team members at no extra cost, with fine-grained control over permissions and roles. Multi-organization support.
Cloud 66 products help companies build, deploy and manage their applications without hiring DevOps teams.