How To

This is a collection of articles about how to work with various European cloud providers.

I am documenting my discoveries as I encounter them. For example, european.cloud is currently hosted on OVHcloud, Scaleway, and IONOS. Several “How To” articles are the result of working on european.cloud. As an illustration, I have deployed an n8n instance to automate various background tasks for the website, including crawling the web for relevant news about the European cloud landscape.

n8n on IONOS

n8n on an IONOS VPS

15. January 2026 / 3. March 2026 by Georg Kalus | Leave a Comment

Complete set-up of n8n with a IONOS instance, Traefik and a Let's Encrypt certificate for 3€/month.

Generative API IONOS N8N Scaleway

IONOS AI Model Hub

A closer look at the IONOS AI Model Hub

5. January 2026 / 5. January 2026 by Georg Kalus | Leave a Comment

The IONOS AI Model Hub offers serverless LLMs with competitive pricing. It features the powerful GPT OSS model and FLUX.1 from Black Forest Labs, amongst others.

AI Generative API Germany IONOS Mistral AI OpenAI OVHcloud Scaleway STACKIT

Exploring cloud storage

How to read/write a STACKIT Object Storage bucket with WinSCP

2. January 2026 / 4. January 2026 by Georg Kalus | Leave a Comment

Simple steps to open a STACKIT Object Storage bucket with WinSCP.

STACKIT Terraform

Vault

How to use the STACKIT Secrets Manager with Terraform

29. October 2025 / 29. October 2025 by Georg Kalus | Leave a Comment

This guide describes how to work with the STACKIT Secrets Manager in Terraform. The STACKIT Secrets Manager is based on HashiCorp Vault.

STACKIT Terraform

Compact disks

How to find a STACKIT server boot image ID?

27. October 2025 / 27. October 2025 by Georg Kalus | Leave a Comment

This How-To describes how to get a server boot image ID. The image ID is needed when provisioning a server in the STACKIT cloud.

STACKIT Terraform

Scaleway Secret Manager

Scaleway Secret Types Decoded

28. April 2025 / 1. December 2025 by Georg Kalus | Leave a Comment

Learn how to create Scaleway Secret Types opaque, key-value, basic credentials, database credentials, ssh-key, certificate.

Scaleway Terraform

Scaleway Compute Instance

n8n on a Scaleway Instance

24. April 2025 / 1. February 2026 by Georg Kalus | Leave a Comment

Learn how to easily host N8N in a Scaleway instance with a PostgreSQL database, using Terraform infrastructure as code.

Docker Kubernetes N8N PostgreSQL Scaleway Terraform

Scaleway Serverless Container Product Illustration

N8N in a Scaleway Serverless Container

13. April 2025 / 18. April 2025 by Georg Kalus | 1 Comment on N8N in a Scaleway Serverless Container

I have a N8N workflow that I want to run once per day. As I am currently exploring Scaleway, I decided to use Scaleway infrastructure. In this article, we are exploring Scaleway Serverless Container as possible infrastructure choice.

European Champions N8N PostgreSQL Scaleway Serverless SQLite VPC

N8N workflow with Scaleway Generative API

How to use Scaleway Generative APIs with n8n

9. April 2025 / 5. January 2026 by Georg Kalus | Leave a Comment

N8N simply works with Scaleway Generative API because of API compatibility with OpenAI API.

AI European Champions Generative API IAM N8N OpenAI Scaleway