Getting started

Step-by-step customer journey to build your cloud-native developer platform.

• Prepare your provider infrastructure
  Set up your infrastructure provider (e.g. AWS account) in order to run a Giant Swarm management cluster and workload clusters, all remaining under your ownership.
• Access to the platform API
  How engineers can access the platform API to provision new workload clusters or deploy applications.
• Create a first workload cluster
  Experience configuring and provisioning your first workload cluster using the platform API.
• Install an application using the app platform
  Add capabilities to your platform by deploying applications from our catalog.
• Control the application connectivity
  Understand how basic connectivity works in the platform and which options are available for exposing your app.
• Observe your clusters and apps
  Start monitoring your clusters and applications with Giant Swarm's observability platform - from basic metrics and logs to distributed tracing, custom dashboards and alerts.
• Observability
  Get started with Giant Swarm's observability platform and learn how to monitor your clusters and applications effectively.