Getting out of technical debt
Kubernetes is a fast-moving open-source project. The guiding principle being: release early and release often. This philosophy is a key reason Kuberne …
Grafana-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 i …
New: managed Linkerd service mesh
Why observability?
Scaling 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 …
New: 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 o …
Developing for Kubernetes with Okteto
In this last article in this series on developing cloud-native apps for Kubernetes, we're taking a look at another popular developer solution, Okteto. …
Developing for Kubernetes with Skaffold
There are a growing number of solutions that enable software developers to develop their cloud-native applications on Kubernetes. We've discussed a co …
The finale: cost optimization in the cloud
Thanks for getting this far with us. By now you will have learned that moving workloads to Kubernetes and the public cloud will not necessarily get yo …
Part 2: Taking control of the cost drivers
Now that you have examined your compute-related costs (if you haven’t, check out the previous post in this series) let’s dig into cost optimization of …
