
Becoming part of the Giant Swarm
So you have successfully managed to go through our hiring process, you’ve spoken to our People Ops team, successfully convinced us in the tech skill i …

Beyond the Digital Climate Strike
Today the global climate strike begins and we’re proud to be taking part in the digital climate strike. Displaying the banner on our websites with an …

FinTechs - watch out! How to make Kubernetes successful
FinTech is a relatively new, but rapidly expanding sector of the financial services industry. Put simply, FinTech is the application of technology to …

Building Container Images with Podman and Buildah
This is the second in a series of blog posts on building Container Images. The series started with What is the Future of Container Image Building? whi …

So you want to be diverse, what could go wrong?
I recently attended Kubecon EU in Barcelona and it was there that I had an epiphany. As we were setting up our booth, in the booth next to us were hal …

Getting Hired at Giant Swarm
Working for Giant Swarm is awesome, I personally think it’s an opportunity of a lifetime. (And nobody is paying me to say that. :p In fact, I’ve been …

What is the Future of Container Image Building?
In one sense it hardly seems any time at all since Docker 1.0 was released in the summer of 2014, but in another sense it feels like a lifetime. In th …

When a software company ponders the environment
Giant Swarm is a small company with big ideals. It starts with our mission statement in which we state that “We give companies freedom to build the so …

Improving the security of Kubernetes clusters using Istio
One of the goals and benefits of using Istio as a service-mesh infrastructure is improving the security of the cluster it is embedded in and the servi …