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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TechRunning an AI agent in a CI/CD pipeline: a how-to guide
Second part of our Envoy Gateway load testing series. Part one covered the test itself: the ephemeral clusters, the load generator, and how we got the metrics o…
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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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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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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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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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TechThe cloud native era killed VMware's lock-in. Here's what to run instead.
If you're evaluating alternatives to VMware, you'll find no shortage of content telling you which hypervisor to pick or how the licensing compares. What's harde…
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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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TechYour platform team can't build great templates while running around fixing clusters
Most platform teams know exactly what they should be building: the templates and self-service workflows that let developers go from idea to running service with…
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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…