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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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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GitOpsTreat the edge like infrastructure, not an exception
When teams tell us they’re struggling with Kubernetes at the edge, it’s rarely the cluster itself that’s failing. It’s the context.
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GitOpsMaking Grafana remember: our journey to persistence with Grafana and PostgreSQL
To support our customers wanting a simpler, UI-driven way to manage Grafana dashboards ("ClickOps"), we moved from a stateless, GitOps-managed setup to a persis…
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GitOpsGitOps in hybrid factory environments: simplifying deployments, hardening operations
If you're managing infrastructure across factory sites, edge locations, and hybrid cloud environments, you know the pain. Environments drift. Updates fall out o…
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TechGitOps: summing up
In this series of blog articles related to GitOps, we’ve focused on five new and exciting software tools. These tools are still actively under heavy development…
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TechGitOps with Jenkins X
In this penultimate article in our GitOps series, we're taking a look at another heavyweight solution to the automated continuous deployment quest: Jenkins X. J…
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GitOpsGitOps with GitLab Agent for Kubernetes
Following our articles on ArgoCD, Flux, and Fleet, this next article explores the features of the GitLab Agent for Kubernetes. The Agent enables a number of dif…
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TechGitOps with Fleet
This article continues our series looking into the growing trend of GitOps, and the software tools that help organizations to automate application and infrastru…
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TechGitOps with Flux
GitOps is getting a lot of attention in the cloud-native community, and in the previous article in this series, we explored the features of ArgoCD. In this next…