Welcome to the STACKIT Docs

Welcome to the STACKIT Docs

Everything you need to build, deploy, and scale your applications. The Docs offer comprehensive guides, technical references, and practical tutorials to help you make the most of the STACKIT cloud services.

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Getting started

Learn the essential first steps to get started within the cloud, creating and managing your STACKIT resources.

Products

Explore our cloud-based products and services, including databases, computing, AI and more.

Platform

Understand the essentials of cloud management and governance, from IAM and billing to resources, and regions.

Developer Tools

Leverage our developer tools to build, automate, and scale your cloud infrastructure.

Products

Featured (7)

Compute Engine (2)

Network (10)

Data & AI (6)

Runtime (3)

Database (6)

Security (3)

Storage (4)

Logging & Monitoring (3)

Developer Platform (2)

Messaging (2)

Support (1)

Featured (7)

• PostgreSQL Flex

  The object-relational data base for reliable, robust, and high-performance storage

• MongoDB Flex

  Realize modern applications with the popular NoSQL data base

• Kubernetes Engine

  Easily create, supply, and operate containerized workloads

• AI Model Serving

  Use Leading GenAI Models Easily and Securely

• Dremio

  Powerful Lakehouse Query engine for lightning-fast Data Analytics.

• Public IP Address

  Public routable IPv4 address.

• Cloud Foundry

  Managed platform for deploying, scaling and updating applications.

• Server

  Scalable high-performance virtual machines (VM).

• Run Command

  Execute commands on Virtual Machines (VM) remotely.

• CDN

  Worldwide availability with low latency and high bandwith

• VPN

  STACKIT VPN provides secure, encrypted connections between on-premises infrastructure and cloud environments over the public internet.

• Application Load Balancer

  Intelligent, content-based routing for modern web applications.

• Network Load Balancer

  High availability thanks to the efficient distribution of data traffic

• DNS

  Quick and reliable public DNS resolution

• DNS Resolver

  Sovereign recursive DNS resolution inside STACKIT

• Unified Firewall

  Centralized firewall rule management for network traffic control.

• NIC

  Virtual network interface with IPv4 addressing and security controls.

• Public IP Address

  Public routable IPv4 address.

• Security Groups

  Rule-based network traffic control at the interface level.

• Dremio

  Powerful Lakehouse Query engine for lightning-fast Data Analytics.

• Intake

  Managed Kafka-based data ingestion for Apache Iceberg tables.

• AI Model Experiments

  The open source developer platform to build AI applications and models.

• AI Model Serving

  Use Leading GenAI Models Easily and Securely

• Notebooks

  An interactive data exploration and development platform based on Jupyter

• Workflows

  Orchestration engine for scheduling and executing data pipelines.

• Edge Cloud

  Flexibly usable, scalable and secure fleet management of kubernetes at the edge.

• Kubernetes Engine

  Easily create, supply, and operate containerized workloads

• Cloud Foundry

  Managed platform for deploying, scaling and updating applications.

• MariaDB

  Relational data base optimized for dynamic websites

• OpenSearch

  Quickly query and easily analyze large amounts of data

• Redis

  Flexible in-memory storage – whether as cache, data base, or message broker

• MongoDB Flex

  Realize modern applications with the popular NoSQL data base

• PostgreSQL Flex

  The object-relational data base for reliable, robust, and high-performance storage

• SQLServer Flex

  Maximum reliable and high-performance storage thanks to the enterprise database

• KMS

  Perform cryptographic operations securely and efficiently

• Secrets Manager

  Secure Key Value Store for Sensitive Data

• Cloud Security Posture Management

  Monitor and improve the security posture of cloud environments

• Disk Volumes

  Flexible and high-performance virtual hard disk storage

• Archiving

  Audit-proof archiving in the cloud

• File Storage

  Professional NFS file service with high availability.

• Object Storage

  Flexibly usable and scalable cloud storage.

• LogMe

  Quick search and easy analysis of log entries

• Logs

  Centralize and analyze all your log data.

• Telemetry Router

  A modern, centralized solution for handling audit streams.

• Container Registry

  Securely store, manage, and distribute container images in the STACKIT cloud.

• Git

  Secure and efficient version control system.

• RabbitMQ

  The most widely used open source message broker

• MailOut

  Reliable, high-performance email delivery your users trust.

• Help Center

  24/7 customer support with priority-based case evaluation.

Featured Pages

First MongoDB Flex Instance

Set up a first MongoDB Flex instance with a step-by-step guide. Learn to create an instance, connect to it, and perform basic database operations.

STACKIT CLI User Guide

Manage STACKIT services with the command-line interface. The guide covers installation, configuration, and authentication to start automating cloud infrastructure.

STACKIT University

Explore cloud enablement training for STACKIT Cloud and the sovereign ecosystem. Access an extensive range of courses on the learning platform.

STACKIT Calculator

Get full cost transparency for your cloud services. Calculate cloud architectures quickly and receive meaningful cost indications without hidden surprises.

Developer Tools

STACKIT CLI

Configure and manage services from the command line.

STACKIT Go SDK

Accelerate development by interacting with APIs in Go.

STACKIT Python SDK

Simplify daily development work using APIs in Python.

STACKIT Java SDK

Integrate APIs into your Java development workflow.

STACKIT Terraform Provider

Define, reuse, and share infrastructure as code.

STACKIT API

Access the fully integrated API ecosystem.

For partners

STACKIT Marketplace

Explore ready-to-use third-party solutions hosted on STACKIT Cloud. Access modern applications and services to extend your cloud capabilities seamlessly.

STACKIT Partner Portal

Expand your business opportunities through the STACKIT Partner Program. Build successful collaborations and leverage our cloud platform to grow together.

Latest Updates

• announcement

  STACKIT Automation Service is now Generally Available (GA)

  Sep 30, 2026

  STACKIT Automation Service General Availability & Daily Volume Backups

  We are excited to announce that the STACKIT Automation Service is now Generally Available (GA)!

  In addition to reaching GA status, we have introduced Daily Backup Retention Policies for volume management. Customers can now automate both short-term snapshots and long-term volume backups using the existing Volume Recovery Point Management template.

  What’s New

  • General Availability (GA): The STACKIT Automation Service is officially out of Public Preview and ready for production workloads.
  • Daily Volume Backups: Backups are now supported as a recovery option. They are stored in dedicated, isolated storage to provide maximum protection against hardware failures.
  • Daily Backup Retention Policy:
    • Automatically creates a backup from the latest available snapshot once per day when triggered.
    • Backups are automatically pruned once their retention period ends (default retention: 14 days).
    • Easily toggle or adjust backup retention periods at creation or anytime afterwards via the STACKIT Portal and API (backupRetentionPolicies).
  • STACKIT CLI Support: Full support added for volume automation management and backup configuration via the CLI under stackit beta volume automation create.
  • Terraform Provider Support: Manage volume automation resources and backup retention policies declaratively with the STACKIT Terraform Provider (v0.117.0 and above).

  Key Features Summary

  • Multiple Recovery Options: Combine high-performance volume snapshots for fast state restoration with daily volume backups for long-term resiliency.
  • Dynamic Label-Based Targeting: Automatically apply backup and snapshot policies across all matching volumes (including newly provisioned ones).
  • Flexible Execution Triggers: Run tasks on custom schedules or execute them on demand.
  • Integrated Retention Policies: Prevent storage bloat with automated rotations for both snapshots and daily backups.

  What’s Next?

  We continue to expand our library of automation templates and integrations across more STACKIT cloud services. If you have feedback or feature requests, please reach out via the STACKIT Help Center.

• featurecompute-engine

  Start collecting basic VM performance metrics

  Sep 28, 2026

  We are excited to announce that in order to allow STACKIT users to see basic performance metrics of their virtual machines (VMs), we have started installing the OpenTelemetry collector on VMs where the STACKIT Server Agent is running.

  This integration is a significant step towards providing you with deeper, out-of-the-box insights into your infrastructure’s health. The collected metrics data will be visible soon directly within the STACKIT Portal under your server details.

• announcementruntime

  SKE security enhancement: OpenSSH removal

  Sep 28, 2026

  To align with cloud-native security best practices and further harden your clusters, STACKIT Kubernetes Engine is updating its node configuration.

  Currently, nodes provisioned by STACKIT run the OpenSSH daemon, even though there is no supported method to use it. To reduce the OS-level attack surface and enforce immutable infrastructure practices, the OpenSSH daemon will be permanently disabled on all nodes during scheduled cluster maintenance starting November 5, 2026.

  If you have a specific requirement to keep the OpenSSH daemon active on your nodes, please open a service request via the Help Center. Please note that this is only a temporary exception, and the daemon will eventually be disabled across all clusters.

  Otherwise, no action is required, and your workloads will continue running without interruption.

See all release notes