We recently had an internal discussion about documentation — too much, too little, not needed, crucial — back and forth, and back again. It’s a hard subject. Something drove me a little bit crazy in that discussion and I needed to revisit my MBA course for clues and possibly better ways to express my frustration. In short, there’s a reason that we as Giant Swarm…

The product team at Giant Swarm recently made a noteworthy decision: never break the upgrade path. Since we’re a positive bunch, the exact wording of the statement was: Always provide an upgrade path for customer clusters, regardless of how much more effort it is or by how much the delivery date will have to be postponed. The only exception is when it is absolutely not…

Welcome to the fifth part of our blog series that focuses on how to develop, deploy, and debug microservices running in the cloud-native stack. In part four, we illustrated how we can use Linkerd, Grafana, and Loki to check the metrics and logs of our application. Still, observability is based on three data sources: logs, metrics, and traces, and so, in this part, we’ll target…

This post is the first in a series of blog posts about basic Kubernetes concepts. In the second post we talk about Deployments. The third post explains the Services concept and in the forth we look at Secrets and ConfigMaps. In the fifth and final post we talk about Daemon Sets and Jobs. There’s lots of introductions and tutorials out there that help you get…

This post is the second in a series of blog posts about basic Kubernetes concepts. In the first one I explained the concepts of Pods, Labels, and Replica Sets. In this post we will talk about Deployments. The third post explains the Services concept and in the forth we look at Secrets and ConfigMaps. In the fifth and final post we talk about Daemon Sets…

An in-depth series on how to easily get centralized logging, better security, performance metrics, and authentication using a Kubernetes-based platform. This is the third part of our tutorial for creating and deploying an application with the cloud-native stack. Part 1 discussed how to set up a development environment, while Part 2 discussed building the actual application. In this entry, we want to address the deployment…