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Quickly launching Kubernetes clusters

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2026-01-23
By Thalassa Cloud

As we continue launching and introducing new cloud services, recently we have been receiving feedback that it can be overwellming to quickly try out our platform. You need familiarity with other cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure to fully understand the services we are offering. This makes sense, as we are building an alternative for the hyperscaler clouds, so we focus on building blocks, APIs and tight service integrations. But as we love to also make things easier to just try out and see what we have, without having to setup a terraform project, or do a lot of clickops work, we are happy to introduce a new feature that allows people to quickly launch a preconfigured environment with a Kubernetes cluster and other Infrastructure.

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As we continue launching and introducing new cloud services, recently we have been receiving feedback that it can be overwellming to quickly try out our platform. You need familiarity with other cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure to fully understand the services we are offering. This makes sense, as we are building an alternative for the hyperscaler clouds, so we focus on building blocks, APIs and tight service integrations. But as we love to also make things easier to just try out and see what we have, without having to setup a terraform project, or do a lot of clickops work, we are happy to introduce a new feature that allows people to quickly launch a preconfigured environment with a Kubernetes cluster and other Infrastructure.
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