Fast Cloud Deployments, Gardener explained, and stackconf discounts

The new year has just begun and we already have some news for you in our next newsletter.

As promised last month, today we have insights into the release of NETWAYS Managed Kubernetes® v2, a tutorial on fast cloud deployments with Terraform and Docker, and a discount code on your conference ticket for stackconf.

Enjoy reading!

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Product News

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NETWAYS Managed Kubernetes v2 is live

We announced NETWAYS Managed Kubernetes® v2 in our newsletter back in December and made it available in MyNWS. This month, our colleague Justin is here to answer your questions: Why a new version of NETWAYS Managed Kubernetes®? What made us choose Gardener? And what will change for you?

You can find all the background information and answers in our article on the release.

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Blog

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Cloud Deployments in 15 minutes with terraform and docker

Want to deploy your applications to the cloud but can’t decide between Kubernetes, Serverless, Docker, and the like? Sometimes it helps to just try out an option!

In our latest tutorial, you deploy a web application to the NETWAYS Cloud in 15 minutes using Terraform and Docker – reproducible and secure. You can find the tutorial on our website, or get started right away with the code on GitHub.

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Events

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NETWAYS WEB SERVICES IS SILVER SPONSOR OF STACKCONF 2026

stackconf is returning to Munich, and NETWAYS Web Services will once again be sponsoring the event in 2026! Secure your ticket and join us for two days of presentations and discussions on CI/CD, containers, hybrid systems, and cloud solutions.

Use our sponsor code NWS_15

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Reading Corner

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In our reading corner, you’ll find a colorful mix to start the year: databases under enormous load, postmortems (it was DNS, of course!), and a little bit of AI:

• Kleon found out how OpenAI uses a single PostgreSQL write replica for 800 million ChatGPT users:
  Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users
• Dominik came across a helpful list of best practices for using Claude Code (or other AI agents):
  Best Practices for Claude Code
• Justin read the postmortem on a Cloudflare outage earlier this month:
  What came first? The CNAME or the A record?
• Daniel took a look at Grafana’s observability trends and predictions:
  2026 Observability trends and predictions from Grafana Labs: unified, intelligent, and open

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CLI Quick Win

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kubectl set

This month, we have another kubectl tip for you: kubectl set

With kubectl set, you can imperatively adjust various settings for Deployments, DaemonSets, Jobs, etc., such as the image used, resource requests and limits, or configured environment variables. The advantage: The changes you make automatically appear in the history of rolled out revisions.

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