The DigitalOcean Newsletter: March 30, 2022

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The DigitalOcean Newsletter

Your monthly deep dive into all things DigitalOcean, including product updates, new tutorials, upcoming events, and a lot more.

Product Updates

Postgres14 is out, upgrade for free with no downtime and receive over 200 enhancements. For more information and instructions on how to easily upgrade, check out our blog post.
We are excited to announce that the CentOS Stream 9(centos-stream-9-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API when creating a droplet(VM).
Bring your containers closer to your users or infrastructure, simply create a registry using the latest version of doctl v1.71.0 and pick a data center.
Send emails with confidence with SendGrid from Twilio. Reach your customers using Sendgrid with Email API and a Message Transfer Agent sending over 100B emails per month. Your teams can create email templates that send programmatically, analyze email performance, and troubleshoot diagnostically to identify delivery issues.
Check out these new must-have Kubernetes 1 Click Applications:
- OSS Knative in 1 Click for easy deploys and eventing
- Ambassador Edge Stack for top Ingress Controller and API Gateway
- Manage Kubernetes Certs Natively with OSS Cert-Manager
- Data versioning and pipelines for MLOps with Pachyderm

Blog Posts

We are excited to announce that DigitalOcean has acquired the CSS-Tricks website, a learning site with 6,500 articles, videos, guides and other content focused on frontend development.
We commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study which found an organization using DigitalOcean finds a 200% return on investment in less than 6 months.
Learn how Kubernetes can be a valuable tool for startups and when businesses should adopt it.
Find out what it's like on the frontlines of cloud computing in this day in the life of a Data Center Engineer.
Read about the latest features for DigitalOcean Kubernetes, App Platform, and other products.

Highlighted Customer Story

In our new Founder Diaries series, hear from Wordfleet about how they got started and their biggest challenge as an early-stage startup.

Tech Talks

Join us on April 6 to learn how to use Appwrite to build a real-time multi-user chat application and spin up a message storage backend to power it on without Docker or complex installs.

DigitalOcean Tech Talks: Migrating your Database to DigitalOcean with Minimal Downtime

See how you can migrate your databases from virtually any source to DigitalOcean's Managed Databases with minimal downtime and no additional costs.

Watch now

DigitalOcean Tech Talks: Securing Kubernetes Ingress with Let's Encrypt

Learn how to install and configure the Kubernetes Ingress NGINX Controller and connect it with cert-manager to generate TLS certificates using Let's Encrypt.

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DigitalOcean is officially on Twitch! Follow DigitalOceanTV on Twitch for all of the streams you love like Tech Talks and Cloud Chats, plus loads of exclusive content only available to our Twitch community!

Learn what's new and coming soon at DigitalOcean

Inside DigitalOcean

Break the Code is back!

.Tech Domains has announced the return of its widely popular code-breaking game, BreakTheCode.Tech. The limited-time game launched on March 25th, 2022, and gives participants a chance to win prizes worth over $30,000 by the close of play on April 15th at 23:59 EST. With 4 drives and over 10 mind-bending missions, the 90s theme - inspired by the Windows 98 OS - will have you reeling with nostalgia!

We're thrilled to have partnered with .Tech Domains for Break The Code 2 and have even snuck in a few surprises. Play the game now to find these, test your smarts, and take a trip back to the 90s, all in one swift click!