Whitepapers
Practical plans,ten pages each.
Written by the engineers who deliver the work. Each paper is a free PDF download, with no form and no email required.
Compute and Storage, Priced Separately
Why every ZCP plan is now CPU and memory only, and how the root disk is sized and billed by the GB
ZCP Pricing V2 explained: compute-only plans, a root disk you size in GB, six storage tiers, a worked price example, how to size a disk, and what stays the same for existing servers.
- Pricing
- Compute
- Block Storage
- Root Disk
- Migration
Object Storage by Industry
Six buying paths, the S3 workflows each one runs, and the questions to settle before moving data
How six industries use S3-compatible object storage, what ZCP Object Storage supports today, how to choose between ZCP Object Storage and dedicated ZSoftly Cloud Storage, and a migration checklist.
- Object Storage
- S3
- Object Lock
- AI Data
- Migration
Building and Operating a Private Cloud on Apache CloudStack and Ceph
Architecture, change process, upgrades and monitoring for a two-region KVM cloud, with eight lessons from production
A practitioner guide to how ZSoftly builds and runs the ZSoftly Cloud Platform. It covers reference architecture, Ceph pool and placement design, VXLAN networking, and numbered Ansible playbooks. It also covers CloudStack and Ceph upgrades, host patching, per-region monitoring and a readiness checklist.
- Apache CloudStack
- Ceph
- KVM
- Ansible
- Observability
Running Authoritative DNS with PowerDNS and dnsdist
Primary and secondary nameservers across two sites, deployed and patched with Ansible
A reference design for authoritative DNS on PowerDNS with dnsdist in front. It covers API-driven zone management, signed zone transfers to a secondary with its own local data, cache and delegation practice, and one-site-at-a-time patching. It also lists the eight alerts we keep and six anonymised production lessons.
- PowerDNS
- dnsdist
- DNSSEC
- Ansible
- Monitoring
Configuration Management at Platform Scale with Ansible
Repository layout, role design, change discipline and pipeline practice for infrastructure you own
How to run one Ansible repository across many services and sites. It covers numbered playbooks, site-scoped inventories and group_vars, and idempotent roles with precheck and opt-in modes. It also covers prune gates with ownership predicates, gated CI runs, Vault, drift detection and six anonymised production lessons.
- Ansible
- Configuration as Code
- CI/CD
- Ansible Vault
- Drift Detection
Enterprise EKS Auto Mode Migration Roadmap
A phased plan from on-premises Kubernetes to Amazon EKS Auto Mode
A 20-week, ten-phase plan for moving Kubernetes workloads to Amazon EKS Auto Mode, with SigNoz, Falco, Trivy and Argo CD, one-app-at-a-time cutovers, cold-standby disaster recovery and a worked cost example at AWS list prices.
- EKS Auto Mode
- Bottlerocket
- Argo CD
- SigNoz
- Falco
CI/CD Pipelines for Infrastructure as Code
No stored credentials, one account per environment
A reference architecture for Terraform, Ansible and CloudFormation pipelines on AWS: OIDC role chaining, OU-based accounts with StackSets, locked and versioned state, and patterns for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Jenkins.
- CI/CD
- Terraform
- OIDC
- StackSets
- Multi-Account
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