Last modified June 20, 2022
Giant Swarm Training Catalog
Getting Started with Giant Swarm
- Who is Giant Swarm?
- What is the Support model?
- Onboarding into the web UI and the CLI -
kubectl gs - How does GS help platform teams serve application teams?
- What are best practices that we should aim for together?
- What is some useful “technical” knowledge? What differentiates Giant Swarm from other providers?
Kubernetes 101
- High level overview of microservices
- What is Kubernetes and what are the reasons to use it
- Basic Kubernetes concepts
- Basic Kubernetes best practices
GitOps 101
- What is GitOps?
- What are the advantages and reasons to work towards this method?
- Tooling - our recommendations
- Internal tour of how Giant Swarm automation and pipeline is setup
- An example of GitOps in action
Management API and User Authentication (Single Sign On) 101
- What is the Giant Swarm Management API and why is it important?
- Examples of Management API best practices
- Overview of connecting identity providers to Management API as well as Workload Clusters
Cloud Native Security 101
- What does security mean in a cloud-native world?
- What are PSPs, NetworkPolicies, RBAC, etc.?
- What needs to be considered in securing infrastructure outside of Kubernetes clusters?
- Tooling options for “Day 2” operations
Monitoring and Observability 101
- What is the advantage of observability on Kubernetes?
- Which tools do we provide and recommend? Why?
- What does the Giant Swarm monitoring stack look like?
- Monitoring infrastructure and applications
Need help, got feedback?
We listen to your Slack support channel. You can also reach us at support@giantswarm.io. And of course, we welcome your pull requests!
