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 …
Part 1: Taking control of the cost drivers
Introduction Now that we know what we should be looking at — the cost drivers. Let’s dive into what we can do with these moving parts to optimize cost …
Introduction to cost optimization in Kubernetes
Introduction The potential for cost saving is often one of the critical factors when deciding to move to open source and the cloud. Now, in the wake o …
Giant Swarm’s giant network
‘Reflection meets celebration’ is usually a good way to distill the multiple and often contradictory feelings inspired by a birthday. In other words, …
