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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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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InsideSee everything, own your data: the Giant Swarm Observability Platform
Most platform teams have an observability stack. Few would call it finished. You start with metrics, bolt on logging, realize you need traces, wire up alerting …
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ProductIntroducing the Observability Platform
Giant Swarm is all about making your platform engineering smarter. We deliver world-class runtime capability through our Kubernetes Cluster Fleet Management, bu…
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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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TutorialGrafana-ception, or how we do Grafana analytics
1. Finding the right solution At Giant Swarm, we use Prometheus to monitor our infrastructure, but this is better explained in this blog post and in its follow-…
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TechScaling on-demand Prometheus servers with sharding
It’s been a few years since we last wrote about our Prometheus setup. I’d recommend reading that article for context first, but for those looking for a tl;dr — …
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TechNew: built-in Grafana dashboards now available to all Giant Swarm users
If you’re reading this, you probably already know how important observability is for cloud-native, especially at an infrastructure level. As part of our fully m…
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TechLogging in Kubernetes: why we are bullish on Loki
TL;DR: We are bullish on Loki — and we have six reasons why we (and maybe you) should be. Our Kubernetes Platform Architect and epic series writer for this blog…