Engineering
What is software-defined networking (SDN)?
SDN separates the control plane from the data plane. A technical primer on the ONF definition, OpenFlow, and why cloud networking is impossible without it.
ZSoftly Team3 min read
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From the ZCP team
Product announcements, engineering posts, tutorials, and stories from a Canadian-owned cloud platform.
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Engineering
What is sovereign cloud?
Sovereign cloud explained as a category, not a feature. Data residency, operational sovereignty, and corporate sovereignty, and why procurement now asks.
ZSoftly Team3 min read
Company
To the ZSoftly Engineering Team
A thank you to the team waking up to breaking changes, making hard decisions under pressure, and pushing the limits of what we build.
Ditah Kumbong2 min read
Engineering
How We Built ZCP: Proxmox, Ceph, and CloudStack
A look inside ZCP's infrastructure stack. Why we chose open-source components, how they fit together, and what it means for reliability and performance.
Ditah Kumbong4 min read
Company
Why We Are Building a Canadian-Owned Cloud Platform
Data residency, pricing transparency, and accountability. The case for Canadian cloud infrastructure owned and operated in Canada.
Ditah Kumbong3 min read
Engineering
Two Lessons From Running OPNsense in Production
We ran OPNsense as a VM on network-defined storage and watched a single switch fault cascade into a cluster-wide outage. Two lessons we will not relearn: put your firewall on bare metal, and if you must virtualize it, keep the disk local.
Staff at ZSoftly7 min read