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Kustomize was announced as an open-source project by Google in the middle of 2018. Read more about Kustomize in this post from Giant Swarm.

Wellbeing and mental health are current topics inside Giant Swarm, as well as in the larger community. Given that, this is still a delicate and tough topic to talk about - ironically, this blog post itself required a fair (read:...

Giant Swarm is a small company with big ideals. It starts with our mission statement in which we state that

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 possible architectures and finally chose the one that was best by many parameters. We hope this...

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 and is a feature customers have asked us for a lot of times. This means...

Monitoring our infrastructure is of paramount importance at Giant Swarm, as our customers rely on us to provide fully-operated clusters that power some of the world's largest companies. One of the major tools in our observability suite is Prometheus, whic

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 0.7 when we started building our own orchestration platform), we moved all...

With the creation of our Giantnetes stack, the team at Giant Swarm decided that we should continuously deploy our entire fancy new infrastructure. CI/CD is good, we should do more of it. This post describes the first iteration of our...

At Giant Swarm, I work on Microservice Infrastructure and a lot of my work is centered around improving how we run clusters as well as software on clusters. However, this work isn't reflected in my local development environment - as...