News on Planetary Quantum

Platform Updates: Q1/2026

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

An eventful first quarter is behind us. Here’s an overview of the key updates:

Quantum CLI v3
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The new major version of our Quantum CLI is here. We took the opportunity to make fundamental improvements:

Simplified commands for a more intuitive workflow
API key authentication
Removal of username/password authentication
Optimized Docker image
MCP support (Model Context Protocol) for integration with AI assistants (to the details)

Full migration details are available in our documentation. You can obtain the CLI via the following methods:

Platform Updates: 2025 in Review

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

As we close out 2025, we want to share a summary of the platform updates and improvements we’ve shipped this year. Thank you to all our customers for your continued trust and feedback.

Multi-Cloud: OVH Integration
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We’re excited to announce that Planetary Quantum now supports running on OVH infrastructure. This multi-cloud capability opens up a wide range of new regions for our customers:

Platform Updates: 2024 in Review

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000

As we close out 2024, we want to share a summary of the platform updates and improvements we’ve shipped this year. Thank you to all our customers for your continued trust and feedback.

Quantum Monitoring Platform (QMP)
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We made significant investments in our monitoring infrastructure this year:

Loki v2 Update (April): Updated our logging backend to the latest Loki v2, with improved query performance
Grafana Proxy (April): Built a new proxy service for Cortex and Loki access, enabling better multi-tenant support
External QMP Access (April): We now offer an additional service for customers who need to access logs and metrics from outside our infrastructure
Custom Metrics Documentation (April): Published updated documentation for custom metrics scraping and labeling
Cortex Update (June): Updated our metrics backend to the latest Cortex version, bringing improved stability and performance
Block Compaction (June): Implemented compaction for Cortex, improving storage efficiency and enabling automatic cleanup of old data
Promtail for System Logs (August): Added Promtail container to collect system journal logs alongside application logs

Ingress
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TLS 1.3 for Traefik (March): Enabled TLS 1.3 support in Traefik v1.7 for improved security
CORS Support (June): Added CORS configuration support to quantum-caddy, with updated documentation

Quantum CLI
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Volume Migration Improvements (March): Fixed issues with volume migration including duplicate volume handling and proper filtering of non-running services

Documentation
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S3 Bucket Policies (March): Added documentation for S3 bucket policies including public-read, authenticated-read, and grants examples

As always, we welcome your feedback and suggestions for further features. Please reach out to us.

Updates: H2/2023

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:00:00 +0000

In the first half of 2023, we have the following updates for you. In parallel to our Docker platform, we are also working on our PaaS (runway). If this is of interest to you, please contact us and sign up for our newsletter.

Infrastructure
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We are already provisioning new clusters with Kernel 5.11, Docker 20.10.x
Existing clusters will be updated in consultation with customers
Announcement: EOL for clusters on CentOS7 basis (by June 2024)

Quantum Monitoring Platform (QMP)
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Stack:
- The new release updates all components
- Various updates for stability of all collectors
- RAM and CPU consumption has been reduced
Agent functionality to store custom metrics

Quantum CLI
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Linux (ARM) as a client to use the CLI
Updates of all CLI dependencies (e.g., Docker, Go, …)

Quantum Ingress
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Traefik (v1.7):
- Updates to cipher suites
Caddyserver (more info):
- (BETA) our platform now also offers the option to use Caddyserver
- Planned features (for 2023/2024) for all customers:
  - Assistant to migrate from Traefik to Caddyserver
  - Admin dashboard for Caddyserver
  - GDPR-compliant Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

QMP: Platform Update

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:45:00 +0000

QMP: Platform Update
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With the Quantum Monitoring Platform (QMP), we offer our customers centralized logging, access to important metrics of their services (and clusters), as well as alerting for all services. For QMP, we rely on projects such as Loki (for centralized logging) and Cortex (for Prometheus-compatible metrics). Additionally, we offer our customers dashboards in our Console, as well as the ability to work directly with logs and metrics using Grafana.

Documentation Update: Successfully Using and Integrating S3 Storage

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:00:00 +0000

S3 Storage: Successfully Using and Integrating
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At the request of our customers, we have made a comprehensive update to our documentation today: https://docs.planetary-quantum.com/multi-node/s3-object-storage/

The documentation contains first steps for using S3 storage, as well as an example setup to integrate the storage on your own domain (with TLS/SSL) into your projects.

Information about pricing can be found here: Object Storage

Quantum-Cli 2.6.0 Release

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:35:24 +0000

Quantum-Cli 2.6.0
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quantum-cli is a tool developed by Planetary Quantum for customers of our platform.

Currently, quantum-cli already offers integration options for CI/CD pipelines (e.g., with Jenkins, Drone, GitHub, GitLab) of our customers. Our current quantum-cli release adds two more sub-commands: (quantum-cli) ps and (quantum-cli) exec. We developed these features at the request of our customers, and they significantly simplify the daily handling of containers on the Quantum platform.

Managed Logging Update

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:38:45 +0000

Managed Logging Update
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On Monday (October 4, 2021), we deployed a major update for our Managed Logging service. This updates Grafana Loki from version v1.6.0 to the current version v2.3.0.

Behind the version jump are many innovations in Loki and renewals in our platform. You can find more details in our Platform Changelog.

With the rollout of the new version, we are providing Managed Logging on the new cloud infrastructure and have also extended the relevant systems with tracing functionality. This gives us as platform operators the insight we need to plan our own capacities and detect potential problems early.

Quantum-Cli 2.5.0 Release

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 17:46:54 +0000

Quantum-Cli 2.5.0
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The advantage of the Planetary Quantum cluster architecture is that additional worker nodes can be added at any time, allowing our customers to horizontally scale running systems without downtime. In practice, it sometimes happens that complete stacks need to be moved from one cluster to another, whether for organizational reasons or, for example, due to required resources.

Quantum-Cli-2.3.0 Release

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:34:04 +0000

Quantum-CLI: 2.3.0
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Last week we released a new version of Quantum-CLI 2.3.0. With this release, we now support the use of environment variables when deploying stacks. We have also improved the CLI’s screen output during a deployment, so you now see progress bars for downloading your Docker images and restarting the services in your stack.

For those who want to watch a demo, we also provide an Asciicast:

Beta: Container Monitoring

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:54:00 +0000

In the further development of our platform, we are guided by customer feedback: two challenges in IT are capacity planning and operational insight during runtime. Especially in companies that don’t have traditional structures and departments, Quantum helps and supports your team in its tasks — in development and during operations.

Quantum Supports
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In daily operations, overview and insight when debugging applications is often particularly challenging — figuring out why something isn’t working or which part of the application (or stack) isn’t doing what it should, needs to be simple. We took the first step in May of this year (2020) when we introduced a fully automated and scalable centralized logging based on Loki, today we’re going one step further.

Aloha Flatcar!

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:16:00 +0000

Autumn brings new beginnings – since October 15, 2020, we have been provisioning new orders based on the Berlin-based Linux distribution Flatcar Linux. With this, we say goodbye to RedHat/CentOS Linux and look to the future.

Flatcar Linux started as a “friendly” fork of (former) RedHat CoreOS when the EOL of the CoreOS distribution was announced. Flatcar is excellently suited for hosting containers and is the perfect foundation for our platform.

Cloud: Level-Up

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:00:00 +0000

One of our USPs is that we don’t host with an American provider: our platform has been running on the infrastructure of our sister company Planetary Networks GmbH (“Networks”) from the very beginning.

In September 2020, the cloud infrastructure of Networks was rebuilt and is now available for Planetary Quantum and our customers.

The most important parameters are as follows:

Full redundancy at the hypervisor level
AMD-EPYC7 CPUs (with thousands of cores)
4x 25 Gbit/s connection (per hypervisor) in the network
Orchestration with OpenStack (with open APIs and all conveniences)
Auto-Healing :-) for increased fault tolerance
Redundant, fast NVME storage

A dream for us just waiting to be used!

GA: Managed Database

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:00:00 +0000

Databases and Docker? How does that work? In our experience (by now) very well!

Since July 2020, Quantum has been offering the “Managed Database” service with PostgreSQL.

“Managed Database” is a service for customers who don’t want to deal with operating their own database. We have the corresponding know-how on our team. The service is provisioned in a VPC alongside your Docker nodes, customers receive credentials and corresponding insights via dashboards.

Loki: Logs Always in Sight

Tue, 05 May 2020 14:28:00 +0000

Since we have had our first customers on our platform, observability has been an important topic for us. Containerized applications have many advantages, but the herd of microservices can also be overwhelming.

From the beginning, we have offered our customers the ability to view logs on any running container through our Console. Additionally, our customers have the option to send logs from their projects to a self-hosted ELK (or similar) for centralization.

Beta: Managed Registry

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:00:00 +0000

Data security has been a topic for us long before GDPR. That’s why we operate all services for Quantum on the infrastructure of our sister company (Planetary) Networks.

When we started developing our platform, we quickly realized that we also needed a Docker registry for our containers. For the past year, we have been using the open source project Harbor (by VMWare) for this purpose.

We operate Harbor through our platform and use this harbor productively ourselves. Starting today, we’re “pushing” the service to the next stage: Beta.

Cluster Status

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 14:24:00 +0000

Cluster Status
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Today we deployed an extension in our Console. In our solutions, like many others, we like to rely on open source solutions such as Docker and Portainer. And of course, we not only take care of operating these building blocks for our customers, but also continuously develop them further.

What’s New?
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When our customers log into the Console and select an endpoint (cluster), they now see an extended status of their cluster directly on the dashboard. In the background, we have made various stabilizations to the (Portainer) agent and transparently share the status (or the success of these stabilizations) with the dashboard.

Hello World

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Planetary Quantum GmbH was registered in the commercial register on October 22, 2019. And now things are really getting started.

We thank employees, friends, and customers who have already supported us and look forward to further collaboration.

Dennis Tschech & Till Klampaeckel

Cluster Metrics

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Cluster Metrics
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Our platform customers book capacity in the form of CPU, RAM, and disk (HDD). Optionally, these are distributed across different nodes to increase horizontal scalability and fault tolerance. Until now, there was no concept in Portainer for collecting and displaying this data – the use of an additional stack for monitoring and evaluating resources was necessary: additional infrastructure and work for our customers. That’s why we’re all the more pleased with this update to simplify the work for our customers.

News on Planetary Quantum

Platform Updates: Q1/2026

Quantum CLI v3 #

Platform Updates: 2025 in Review

Multi-Cloud: OVH Integration #

Platform Updates: 2024 in Review

Quantum Monitoring Platform (QMP) #

Ingress #

Quantum CLI #

Documentation #

Updates: H2/2023

Infrastructure #

Quantum Monitoring Platform (QMP) #

Quantum CLI #

Quantum Ingress #

QMP: Platform Update

QMP: Platform Update #

Documentation Update: Successfully Using and Integrating S3 Storage

S3 Storage: Successfully Using and Integrating #

Quantum-Cli 2.6.0 Release

Quantum-Cli 2.6.0 #

Managed Logging Update

Managed Logging Update #

Quantum-Cli 2.5.0 Release

Quantum-Cli 2.5.0 #

Quantum-Cli-2.3.0 Release

Quantum-CLI: 2.3.0 #

Beta: Container Monitoring

Quantum Supports #

Aloha Flatcar!

Cloud: Level-Up

GA: Managed Database

Loki: Logs Always in Sight

Beta: Managed Registry

Cluster Status

Cluster Status #

What’s New? #

Hello World

Cluster Metrics

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Quantum CLI v3
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Multi-Cloud: OVH Integration
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Quantum Monitoring Platform (QMP)
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Ingress
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Quantum CLI
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Documentation
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Infrastructure
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Quantum Monitoring Platform (QMP)
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Quantum CLI
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Quantum Ingress
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QMP: Platform Update
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S3 Storage: Successfully Using and Integrating
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Quantum-Cli 2.6.0
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Managed Logging Update
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Quantum-Cli 2.5.0
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Quantum-CLI: 2.3.0
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Quantum Supports
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Cluster Status
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What’s New?
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Cluster Metrics
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