Giant Swarm vs OpenShift
At Giant Swarm, we’ve often been asked to compare our infrastructure with that of Red Hat OpenShift. We’d like to shed some light on this subject and …
Managed Cloud Native Stack - How Giant Swarm Does Cloud
A lot of us at Giant Swarm were at KubeCon in Copenhagen back in May. As well as being 3 times the size of the previous edition in Berlin the atmosphe …
Production-grade Kubernetes Now in an Azure Region near You
We’re thrilled to announce that Giant Swarm is now available on Azure. This adds to the support we already have for AWS and on-premise installations a …
Cost Analysis for Kubernetes Clusters on AWS Using Tags
Tracking the cost of your infrastructure is an important task, especially when you are running a large variety of workloads. It is common for our cust …
A Trip From the Past to the Future of Kubernetes
Boy what a ride this past year has been. In the beginning of 2016, after having been working in the container space for 2 years already (Docker was 0. …
Why Kubernetes or How Giant Swarm Builds Infrastructure
Giant Swarm’s goal is to build the simplest platform to professionally host your distributed applications. In pursuing this goal for the last few year …
Get Visual with Our Web UI
As of today, all users have access to The Giant Swarm Web UI. Use it to get an overview of the status of your services. It also features a novel way t …
Introducing A Better Way To Define Services
We’re moving to a new format for defining services on Giant Swarm. In this blog post we want to explain to you the migration timeline, main changes, b …
Step by Step Towards Zero Downtime Deployment - Rolling Updates are Here
Update: With swarm CLI 0.18.0 we introduced different update strategies that you can choose from. The one described in this blog post is the default o …