The Giant Swarm Blog
We publish when we have something to say - insights we believe in, lessons we've learned, and ideas that might just help you build better.
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TutorialKubernetes Secrets and ConfigMaps in 2026: the Secret is the last mile
Part IV of the Understanding Basic Kubernetes Concepts series, updated from the 2016 original.
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AIThe software inflection point: agents, OSS, and InnerSource
Over the past year, agentic development has gone from novelty to the way an increasing number of serious teams actually ship code. Naval Ravikant declared that …
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InsideInfrastructure for AI is finally getting a standard
Over the past year, AI has exploded into production, from experimental models to customer-facing apps and internal copilots. But while the models evolved fast, …
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Platform EngineeringPlatform reality has a surprising amount of detail
This article was originally published on DevOps.com on April 15th 2023. Developer platforms and the platform teams that create them have been the center of atte…
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TechThe future of Platform as Code is simple; it's Kubernetes extensions
This article was originally published on Container Journal on May 6th 2022. Infrastructure as Code — where we come from
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TechDeveloping for Kubernetes with Okteto
In this last article in this series on developing cloud-native apps for Kubernetes, we're taking a look at another popular developer solution, Okteto. Just like…
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TechDeveloping for Kubernetes with Skaffold
There are a growing number of solutions that enable software developers to develop their cloud-native applications on Kubernetes. We've discussed a couple of th…
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TechDeveloping for Kubernetes with Garden
In the previous article in this series, I detailed how Tilt provides a developer-centric experience for coding cloud-native applications destined to be run on K…
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TechIt's Cluster API time — are you ready?
As some of you might have seen, we’ve been working on and talking about Cluster API a lot lately. I felt like now’s a good time to review what Cluster API (CAPI…