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CKE in public beta: managed, sovereign, and properly integrated Kubernetes
Clever Cloud was founded in 2010. At that point, Docker did not exist, and Kubernetes even less. The problem, however, was already there: running our first customers' applications reliably, in isolation, and predictably.
Clever Cloud launches Clever Kubernetes Engine (CKE) in public beta on April 27, 2026
Previewed at Devoxx starting April 22, CKE is the culmination of two years of R&D built around a complete reimplementation of Kubernetes.
The DEEP, OVHcloud and Clever Cloud consortium selected to deliver sovereign cloud services for European institutions
Paris – April 17, 2026 – The consortium composed of DEEP by POST Luxembourg Group, OVHcloud and Clever Cloud today announces its selection by the European Commission as part of a major procurement framework to provide sovereign cloud services to the institutions, bodies and agencies of the European Union. This contract, with a ceiling of €180 million over six years, marks a significant milestone in the concrete implementation of Europe’s digital sovereignty strategy.
What makes Clever Cloud unique
Most cloud platforms ask you to pick a lane. Serverless with hard limits on memory, execution time, and payload size. Containers locked to a single hyperscaler with databases resold from third parties. Or raw infrastructure where you manage everything yourself.
OpenTofu: the open-source Terraform fork — natively supported on Clever Cloud
In August 2023, HashiCorp changed Terraform's license. A few weeks later, OpenTofu
was born under the Linux Foundation. Here's what it means — and how to use it
with the Clever Cloud provider.
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Clever Cloud Takes Control of Its IP Prefix Announcements
Since January 22, 2025, Clever Cloud has been announcing its own IP prefixes on the Internet in our Paris region. We now manage this critical part of our network infrastructure internally, rather than delegating it to a third party.
Cloud modernisation: how to align governance and operations without adding complexity
European organisations are managing increasingly heterogeneous environments: legacy applications, cloud-native services, multi-cloud setups and regulatory constraints are accumulating within information systems rarely designed to handle such diversity.
When choose a PaaS for a public sector project
Public services are engaged in an ongoing digital transformation, driven by increasing user expectations, service continuity requirements, and growing security needs.
When Geopolitics Hits the Cloud: Why Resilience Now Matters More Than Scale
The current war in the Middle East is a military crisis. It is also a growing stress test for digital infrastructure and cloud resilience.
How We Deployed a Vinext Application in Minutes on Clever Cloud with AI
Cloudflare has just announced Vinext, a drop-in replacement for Next.js built on Vite. The project is vibecoded, experimental, but the promise is compelling: builds up to 4x faster, bundles 57% lighter, and 94% coverage of the Next.js API. We wanted to see how easy it would be to deploy it on Clever Cloud.
New IAM feature: what our Managed Keycloak offers today
Since its launch, Keycloak as a Service has evolved significantly to meet the concrete needs of businesses and the requirements of operating IAM at scale.