Securing the Base Infrastructure of a Kubernetes Cluster
The first article in this series Securing Kubernetes for Cloud Native Applications, provided a discussion on why it’s difficult to secure Kubernetes, …
Why Is Securing Kubernetes so Difficult?
If you’re already familiar with Kubernetes, the question in the title will probably resonate deep within your very being. And if you’re only just gett …
Why You Should Not Neglect Your Developer’s Kubernetes Clusters
So you’ve finally succeeded in convincing your organization to use Kubernetes and you’ve even gotten first services in production. Congratulations!
Logging Best Practices for Kubernetes using Elasticsearch, Fluent Bit and Kibana
Logging is one of the most powerful tools we have as developers. It’s no accident that when things go wrong in production, one of a developer’s first …
What you Yaml is What you get - Using Helm without Tiller
When starting with Kubernetes, learning how to write manifests and bringing them to the apiserver is usually the first step. Most probably kubectl app …
Deep Dive Into Kubernetes Networking in Azure
We started building our azure-operator in the fall of 2017. One of the challenges that we faced was the networking architecture. We evaluated multiple …
Using Kubernetes LoadBalancer Services on AWS
Cloud Providers are a powerful concept in Kubernetes that provide cloud specific extensions. On AWS, Kubernetes Services of type LoadBalancer are a go …
Monitoring On-Demand Kubernetes Clusters with Prometheus
Monitoring our infrastructure is of paramount importance at Giant Swarm, as our customers rely on us to provide fully-operated clusters that power som …
aws-operator 2.0 managing Kubernetes clusters with CloudFormation
Our aws-operator is a Kubernetes operator that manages Kubernetes clusters running on AWS. We recently released version 2.0 of the operator that uses …
