Learn about Giant Swarm

• Details on Kubernetes on Giant Swarm
  Here you learn how we set up things for you and what we manage for you, so you don't have to.

• AWS Architecture
  How Giant Swarm is running Kubernetes clusters on AWS infrastructure

• Azure Architecture
  How Giant Swarm is running Kubernetes clusters on Azure infrastructure

• On Premises Architectures
  How Giant Swarm is running in your datacenter on the hardware you provide

• Security
  Details on security features

• Kubernetes Resources
  Pointers to the best resources about Kubernetes, to get you up to speed with Kubernetes fast

• Frequently Asked Questions
  Quick facts in a compact format

Tutorials

• Securing your Cluster with RBAC and PSP
• Authenticating with Microsoft Azure Active Directory
• Services of type LoadBalancer and Multiple Ingress Controllers
• Advanced Cluster Autoscaler Configuration
• Creating Your Own Admission Controller
• Using Persistent Volumes on Azure
• Advanced Ingress Configuration
• Advanced CoreDNS Configuration
• Accessing Pods and Services from the outside
• Using Persistent Volumes on AWS
• Using Persistent Volumes on AWS with EFS
• Installing an Ingress Controller
• Recommendations and Best Practices
• Using Persistent Volumes on bare metal
• Limiting Pod Communication with Network Policies
• How to deploy Istio in your cluster
• Establishing Trust to Your Cluster's CA and Importing Certificates
• Scheduling Constraints and Resource Quality of Service
• Creating tenant clusters on AWS via Control Plane Kubernetes API
• Creating tenant clusters on Azure via Control Plane Kubernetes API
• Creating tenant clusters via Control Plane Kubernetes API
• Prepare an AWS account to run Giant Swarm clusters
• Prepare an Azure subscription to run Giant Swarm tenant clusters
• Microservices & Custom Metrics Example
• Handling Impaired EBS Volumes
• Using on-demand instances as fall-back when spot instances are unavailable on AWS
• Running Multiple NGINX Ingress Controllers

Recipes

• Installing the Kubernetes Dashboard
• Logging with the Elastic Stack
• Setting up Weave Scope or Weave Cloud
• Labelling tenant clusters
• Getting Basic Metrics in your Cluster
• Preparing a Kubernetes cluster for the use of GPUs

Reference Documentation

• gsctl - The Giant Swarm command line utility
• Cluster definition YAML reference
• Cluster upgrades
• The Giant Swarm API
• kubectl reference
• Kubernetes API reference