Articles, guides and insights on DevOps and cloud in Switzerland
The Hidora blog is where our DevOps engineers share what we actually do day-to-day for Swiss companies running production workloads on Kubernetes, sovereign cloud and managed services. You'll find detailed case studies from clients like CID ERP and Logifleet, deep-dives on CI/CD pipelines, observability and security hardening, plus practical guides on data sovereignty under Swiss FADP and GDPR. Every post is written by a practitioner, not a marketer, with the goal of being useful when you're sizing a migration, choosing a hosting model, or troubleshooting an incident at 2am.
Hidora is once again sponsoring DevOpsDays Geneva and will present Hikube on stage. A look at an event that has been part of our DNA from day one.
Analysis of DevOps trends in Swiss Romande based on our experience with 100+ companies. Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, data sovereignty.
Practical guide to Kubernetes adoption for SMEs. Learn why K8s matters, avoid misconceptions, and decide between in-house vs outsourced solutions.
Compare SLA and managed services models. Understand when each fits best, explore hybrid approaches, and use our decision framework.
Learn why monitoring isn't enough. Discover the three pillars of observability and how to build a strategy that answers your hardest questions.
Learn the five most expensive cloud-native migration mistakes and how to avoid them. From lift-and-shift to data residency, protect your investment.
How the swiss.blackfriday platform absorbed exceptional traffic peaks using auto-scaling and Hidora infrastructure.
A practical security checklist for production Kubernetes. Cover the essentials without the security theater.
A practical guide to Kubernetes cost optimization. Identify waste, right-size resources, and build a cost-aware engineering culture.
Understand the differences between SRE and DevOps, when each model makes sense, and how to transition between them.
A real-world case study of a Swiss company migrating from AWS to Hidora Cloud, achieving an 80% reduction in hosting costs.
Build a disaster recovery plan for Kubernetes that actually works. Test it. Prove it. Survive it.
How CID ERP migrated their ERP platform to Hidora Cloud for better performance, security and agility.
Evaluate DevOps MSPs systematically. Know what to ask, what to avoid, and how to structure a partnership that works.
Achieve zero-downtime deployments. Strategy, patterns, and practical implementation for production systems.
Build observability that scales with your infrastructure. Metrics, logs, traces, and the culture that ties them together.
Master cloud cost optimization strategies. Learn how to align DevOps efficiency with financial accountability while avoiding hidden cloud costs.
Recognize DevOps burnout and implement sustainable practices. Learn team scaling, on-call rotation, and organizational culture changes that work.
Build a hybrid cloud strategy aligned with Swiss data sovereignty. Workload placement, vendor selection, and governance guidance.
When does a monolith outperform microservices? Organizational, operational, and technical factors to choose the right architecture.
Implement shift-left security practices. Learn CI/CD security, code scanning, and building security into development workflows without slowing teams.
Compare self-hosted vs. managed Kubernetes costs and complexity. Learn hidden costs, operational overhead, and when each model makes sense.
Calculate the true business impact of downtime. Present financial arguments for infrastructure investment to executive leadership.
Leverage Swiss data sovereignty as competitive advantage. Learn compliance benefits, customer trust, and market positioning for Swiss enterprises.
Create sustainable DevOps culture beyond tooling. Learn organizational patterns, team structure, and cultural change for DevOps success.
Evaluate AI's real impact on DevOps practices. Learn practical applications, limitations, and how to invest wisely in AI tooling.
Discover how an internal developer platform reduces complexity, accelerates deployments, and transforms team productivity.
Recap of the DevOps Geneva Meetup on February 8, 2024, featuring talks on the DevOps process and container security.
Understand nLPD implications for your IT infrastructure. Learn data sovereignty requirements, cloud hosting regulations, and compliance best practices.
Deploy GitOps without the chaos. Learn the practical path from first principles to reliable production deployments.
Deploy Terraform confidently. Avoid common pitfalls and build scalable infrastructure automation that teams trust.
How to use Git and GitOps to manage your infrastructure configuration reliably, traceably and with full automation.
Build multi-tenant SaaS on Kubernetes. Namespace isolation, tenant patterns, database strategies, and security best practices.
Discover how OpenSearch, the open-source solution, makes system observability more accessible, more powerful and less expensive.
Learn how to deploy and configure Zabbix for network and application monitoring, with a step-by-step installation guide on Hidora.
Deploy ModSecurity WAF on Kubernetes with Ingress NGINX. Protect your apps against XSS, SQL injection, and OWASP Top 10 threats.
Clean up Docker images, containers, and volumes with docker rmi, rm, volume rm, and system prune. Includes Kubernetes best practices.
Jefferson Notaro, founder of Functional Box, shares his experience migrating from AWS to Hidora and the lessons learned for his startup.
Deploy Nextcloud with Collabora Online on Kubernetes. Helm config, architecture, and best practices for a sovereign productivity stack.
Compare Master-Slave, Master-Master, MySQL Group Replication, and Galera Cluster. Learn how to deploy MySQL HA on Kubernetes with Hikube.
A Swiss e-commerce client shares their experience migrating to Hidora cloud hosting, covering flexibility, performance and data sovereignty.
How Logifleet, a Swiss company specializing in IoT and fleet management, found the flexibility and reliability it needed with Hidora.
How Hidora helped a Geneva-based private bank modernize its infrastructure with Kubernetes, Rancher, GitLab CI/CD, and monitoring tools.