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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Giant Swarm today had to let go of amazing people
Today we are sharing some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Giant Swarm’s history. We’ve decided to reduce the size of our team by 11% and have had to…
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TeamPlatform engineering: it’s not a tool stack; it’s a set of capabilities
Platform engineering is the hottest topic in 2023. While some say DevOps is dead and platform engineering is now replacing DevOps, others focus more on the enab…
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TechCloud native predictions for 2023
This year was impressive, to say the least. I'll touch on some of 2022's achievements when I revisit my previous predictions. However, in a nutshell, we're work…
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InsideGetting Things Done the Giant Swarm way
If we believe in something, we believe it all the way: our people, our customers, and our potential. We believe in the microservices architecture so much that w…
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SecurityCVEing is Believing
This post is about abusing Prometheus in the name of security. At some point in their Kubernetes adoption, our customers inevitably find themselves needing to b…
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Cluster APINew: OpenStack with Cluster API
Background
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TutorialThe Kubernetes Gateway API
At Giant Swarm, Kubernetes is central to all that we do. That means that we care very much about the content, quality, and expressiveness of the multitude of AP…
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ProductNew: managing your fine-grained permissions
Security and access control to resources are top of mind for everyone running Kubernetes. And while powerful, role-based access control (RBAC) in Kubernetes is …
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TechChange as part of the platform’s DNA
Survival of the fittest