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Frédéric Alix

Expertise

I work with open technologies and European providers. Skill levels are those stated on my CV.

European sovereign cloud

  • OVHcloud (expert): Public Cloud (OpenStack), bare metal, HDS health-data environment, OVH API
  • Clever Cloud (expert): PaaS, add-ons, Network Groups, helping teams move to PaaS
  • Scaleway (good)
  • OpenStack (advanced): Mirantis on OpenCompute, Swift object storage
  • Regulated contexts: health-data hosting (French HDS certification)

Orchestration and infrastructure as code

  • HashiCorp (advanced): Terraform, Packer, Nomad, Consul, Vault
  • Configuration management (advanced): Ansible, Rudder, SaltStack; event-driven automation with StackStorm
  • Job scheduling and CI/CD (advanced): Rundeck, Jenkins, GitLab CI, OVH CDS
  • Containers and virtualisation: Docker (advanced), LXC/LXD (advanced), KVM, Proxmox, FreeBSD jails

Observability

  • Prometheus, Loki, Grafana (advanced); Graylog (advanced); earlier: Zabbix, Icinga 2

Data

  • Kafka, MongoDB, Elasticsearch (advanced); Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL (good); Consul, CouchDB, OpenStack Swift

Systems and networking

  • FreeBSD, OpenBSD, pfSense, FreeNAS (expert); Ubuntu (expert), Debian
  • Nginx, Caddy, Apache httpd (expert); HAProxy, Varnish
  • WireGuard, Tailscale, Clever Cloud Network Groups; earlier: Solaris 10/11, LDOM, Sun Cluster

Development

  • Bash (advanced), JavaScript/Node.js (good), Go (intermediate)

Training and leadership

  • Trainer at École 404 (2019–2022): GNU/Linux administration, automation, security, networking, OVH Cloud
  • Led a team of 6 developers (Neuva, 2020); coordinated remote development teams (2014–2015)

My technical choices

I favour platforms sized to the need: a European PaaS when it is enough, Nomad and the HashiCorp ecosystem when orchestration is required, VMs or bare metal when performance or control demand it. My test: the team that inherits the platform must be able to understand it, run it and evolve it.

Certification

Clever Cloud Advanced Deployments

Earned in June 2026: deployment internals, runtime tuning and infrastructure as code on Clever Cloud.

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