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 …
Developing for Kubernetes with Garden
In the previous article in this series, I detailed how Tilt provides a developer-centric experience for coding cloud-native applications destined to b …
It's Cluster API time — are you ready?
As some of you might have seen, we’ve been working on and talking about Cluster API a lot lately. I felt like now’s a good time to review what Cluster …
Developing for Kubernetes with Tilt
Before the developer's world got hijacked by containers and all things cloud-native, life was relatively straightforward. The inner loop, where the de …
KubeCon's Greatest Hits
KubeCon 2021 has come and gone but what we learned from it is here to stay — or at least, that’s our hope with compiling this (in-no-way-exhaustive) l …
Giant Swarm’s solution architect versus account engineer guide
A Solution Architect and an Account Engineer walk into a bar…
Logging 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 …
Introducing Managed Apps 2.0
We recently relaunched our managed apps initiative. There are many terms we use when discussing managed apps: you may have heard App Platform, App Cat …
