What is the Future of Container Image Building?
In one sense it hardly seems any time at all since Docker 1.0 was released in the summer of 2014, but in another sense it feels like a lifetime. In th …
When a software company ponders the environment
Giant Swarm is a small company with big ideals. It starts with our mission statement in which we state that “We give companies freedom to build the so …
Improving the security of Kubernetes clusters using Istio
One of the goals and benefits of using Istio as a service-mesh infrastructure is improving the security of the cluster it is embedded in and the servi …
The past, present and future of operatorkit
Kubernetes Operators are all the rage. However, getting the concept right is difficult. Here we want to provide our view on the past, present, and fut …
Istio monitoring explained
Nobody would be surprised if I say “Service Mesh” is a trending topic in the tech community these days. One of the most active projects in this area i …
Grafana Logging using Loki
Loki is a Prometheus-inspired logging service for cloud native infrastructure.
Who is keeping your cloud native stack secure?
Survey after survey is showing that 70% of organizations are using cloud infrastructure. The last bits of the late majority will be joining this year …
Self Driving Clusters - Managed Autoscaling Kubernetes on AWS
Giant Swarm provides managed Kubernetes clusters for our customers, which are operated 24/7 by our operations team. Each customer has their own privat …
Giant Swarm’s Top Cloud Native Posts of 2018
Our team is hard at work perfecting the ideal Kubernetes stack for you. Still, we find time to share knowledge about our experiences in the containeri …