Enter Mayu & Yochu – Our Provisioning Tools For CoreOS On Bare Metal
Despite the ongoing growth of the public cloud market we see more and more companies operating their own bare metal. These are not only big tech compa …
Deploy An Elastic High-Availability SQL Cluster with Crate and Weave
Recently, I sat down with one of our customers to see if we can get a Crate cluster running in their dedicated Giant Swarm cluster. As we have built G …
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Cloud
We all know Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and it’s various uses in psychology, sociology, management, and marketing in someway or the other. In the orig …
Introducing A Better Way To Define Services
We’re moving to a new format for defining services on Giant Swarm. In this blog post we want to explain to you the migration timeline, main changes, b …
Deploy a Clojure application in Under 1 Minute
After having deployed a Meteor application in under 1 minute, I thought I’d try myself at another deployment. This time I wanted to go for something d …
The New Make or Buy Decision in Cloud - Your Own Docker PaaS
A lot has been said about how containerization and Docker enables companies to build and run their own PaaS the same way big companies like Facebook, …
Deploy a Meteor Application in Under 1 Minute
Recently, we had someone on Twitter asking us if we support Meteor. As we were not sure, I thought challenge accepted we could just try it out. And it …
Reliability Is Not Enough - Building Resilient Applications With Containerized Microservices
When we talk about applications and their deployment in production, we often talk about reliability as a non-functional requirement. What is it that w …
Step by Step Towards Zero Downtime Deployment - Rolling Updates are Here
Update: With swarm CLI 0.18.0 we introduced different update strategies that you can choose from. The one described in this blog post is the default o …
