Ceph on Kubernetes, NWS Newsletter Archive, and stackconf Discounts
February has just arrived and is already over again, and we’re enjoying the slowly improving weather from our office windows.
On the technical side, we’ve been busy with content this month: New tutorials, blog posts, and an overview of all our newsletters have made it onto the web. As for our portfolio, we’ll have exciting news for you again in March.
Until then, as always: Enjoy reading!
Blog
Tutorial: Deploying Ceph on Kubernetes with Rook
This month I took a closer look at Rook. With this CNCF project, you can provision and operate a fully functional Ceph cluster on Kubernetes.
The starting point for this experiment was the archiving of the MinIO project on GitHub, a popular open source solution for object storage. But Ceph can do even more - among other things, it supports the ReadWriteMany (RWX) volume type in Kubernetes.
You can find all the details and a comprehensive tutorial on how to set up Ceph with Rook yourself on our website.
Tutorial: n8n Workflows for modern process automation
Our colleague Joshua also published a new tutorial this month, giving a great overview of n8n and its capabilities for process automation.
If you’re already using AI and LLMs for prompting and/or content creation, n8n definitely opens up some interesting possibilities for you. And even otherwise, the tutorial is well worth a read. 😉
Events
NETWAYS Web Services is Silver Sponsor of stackconf 2026
After already promoting a 15% discount on tickets for stackconf last month, we’re stepping it up in February: With our sponsor code NWS_50, you get 50% off your ticket, while supplies last!
So there are no more excuses any longer, and we of course hope to welcome you as a silver sponsor at the end of April in Munich.
Product News
The NWS Newsletter Archive is live
Do you enjoy our monthly newsletters? Would you like to have access to our blog posts, tutorials, link collections, and tips even months later, without having to dig through your inbox? We’ve been hearing this kind of feedback more often lately, and so last month we set up a newsletter archive.
There you’ll find all previously published newsletters in German and English - perfect for sharing with friends and colleagues.
Reading Corner
As usual, we’ve gathered the team’s internet finds for you. This month featuring an educational debugging report, insights into what’s possible with CSS in 2026, and how Anthropic’s AI built a C compiler for the Linux kernel unsupervised.
- Daniel found an interesting report from Anthropic, where 12 AI agents built a C compiler:
Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes - Valeria looked into the state of CSS in 2026:
You no longer need JavaScript - Gabriel found this post on Mimir debugging interesting:
When 2 CPUs of “Nothing” Turned Into a Deep Mimir Lesson - Sebastian explored new challenges for infrastructure management in the age of AI:
AI Workloads Challenge the Cattle Model
CLI Quick Win
kube-capacity
kube-capacity is a useful tool when you want to adjust resource requests/limits in a cluster - for example because scheduling of new pods is failing due to “missing” resources.
With this kubectl plugin, you get an overview of used requests/limits per cluster node, optionally with a breakdown at the pod level.
kube-capacity can be used either as a standalone CLI or installed as a kubectl plugin. More information can be found in the GitHub Repository of the project.
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Until next month,
Daniel & the NWS-Team
