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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TechEnvoy Gateway load testing report: how does it compare to NGINX Ingress Controller?
Some migrations you plan. Others get scheduled for you. On November 11th, 2025, the Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee announced the ret…
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Platform EngineeringSpec-driven development: how we review plans, not pull requests
In September the whole Giant Swarm team was at our annual offsite in Greece, and one of the things we decided there is to open source the way we plan our work. …
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TechWhat 143 platform teams told us about keeping infrastructure alive
When we started doing platform work more than ten years ago, nobody called it "platform engineering." We were just trying to make it easier for people to run so…
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Cost Optimization in KubernetesThe post-VMware playbook: what to move first, what to leave for last
We've had four separate conversations this quarter with teams mid-evaluation on leaving VMware. Different industries, different scale, same underlying question …
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Platform EngineeringThe CNCF landscape has 230+ tools. Choosing from it is where platform teams get stuck.
The CNCF just celebrated its 10th anniversary. What started with Kubernetes and around twenty member organizations has grown into an ecosystem of over 230 proje…
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HistoryNine years of predicting cloud native, scored honestly
I started writing annual predictions in 2017 to find out whether I could read the industry. Nine years in, that's turned out to be one of the least interesting …
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GitOpsConfiguration management at Giant Swarm: a historical overview
This is the first of three posts on configuration management at Giant Swarm.
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TechDonating your project to a foundation: what it actually means for risk and compliance
We don't write about the CRA because we have it figured out. We write because we're in the middle of it, and writing is how we think. What we know is evolving, …
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TechYou're probably still paying for a VMware licence you no longer need
For years, VMware was the obvious answer. You needed to run workloads, you needed isolation, you needed enterprise support, and VMware delivered all of that rel…