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# From the ZCP team

Product announcements, engineering posts, tutorials, and stories from a Canadian-owned cloud platform.

## More posts

![ZCP announcement: Kubernetes 1.37. Now on ZCP. New features, upgrades, and version support.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/kubernetes-1-37-now-available.webp)

Announcements

September 6, 2026

### [Kubernetes 1.37 Is Now Available on ZCP](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/kubernetes-1-37-now-available)

Kubernetes 1.37 is available for new ZCP managed clusters. Explore a queue-worker scaling example, supported versions, upstream support dates, and a practical upgrade plan.

ZSoftly Team

5 min read

![Cover reading Teach students to build cloud, with a cloud infrastructure lab illustration](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/open-letter-canadian-colleges-universities-teach-cloud-building.webp)

Company

September 3, 2026

### [An Open Letter to Canadian Colleges, Universities, and Tech Boot Camps: Teach Students to Build Cloud, Not Only Consume It](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/open-letter-canadian-colleges-universities-teach-cloud-building)

Canadian cloud education should pair commercial-platform training with open infrastructure, practical labs, and vendor-independent operating skills.

Ditah Kumbong

5 min read

Company

August 26, 2026

### [Canadian Cloud Sovereignty Requires More Than a Canadian Address](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/canadian-cloud-sovereignty-requires-more-than-a-canadian-address)

Data residency matters, but sovereignty also depends on ownership, legal jurisdiction, operations, and control of the compute stack.

Ditah Kumbong

4 min read

![ZCP engineering cover for local and shared replicated root-storage results in YUL-1](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/local-vs-distributed-yul-root-storage-results.webp)

Engineering

August 22, 2026

### [Local vs Replicated Block Storage in YUL-1: Performance, Price, and Recovery](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/local-vs-distributed-yul-root-storage-results)

A YUL-1 comparison of local NVMe, local SATA SSD, and shared replicated block storage. See the performance results, pricing model, and recovery tradeoffs before choosing a storage tier.

Ditah Kumbong

11 min read

![ZCP engineering cover reading Same containers. Different network.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/migrating-a-vpn-server-from-aws-to-private-cloud.webp)

Engineering

August 20, 2026

### [What Nobody Tells You About Migrating a VPN Server From AWS to Private Cloud](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/migrating-a-vpn-server-from-aws-to-private-cloud)

A working public-cloud deployment does not always survive the move to private infrastructure. Here is the failure pattern we hit moving a VPN control plane off AWS, and the lessons that apply to any public-to-private cloud migration.

Godson Tendongze

10 min read

![ZSoftly-branded overview of Debian 12 and Debian 13 public images available in ZCP YOW-1 and YUL-1](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/debian-images-on-zcp-availability-boundary.webp)

Announcements

August 19, 2026

### [Debian 12 and 13 on ZCP: Available in YOW-1 and YUL-1](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/debian-images-on-zcp-availability-boundary)

Debian 12 and 13 are available as ZCP public images in YOW-1 and YUL-1. Learn the sizing baseline, operational practices, and official Debian references.

ZSoftly Team

4 min read