Getting started

Guides to help you get going with your new Giant Swarm installation, quickly. Things most of our users want to know on day one.

• Cloud provider accounts
  How to set up your AWS account or your Azure subscription in order to run Giant Swarm management clusters and workload clusters under your jurisdiction.
• Persistent volumes
  Basic information on using Persistent Volumes in Giant Swarm workload clusters.
• Basic metrics
  Recipe to enable a core metrics solution running on your Kubernetes cluster.
• Securing your cluster with RBAC and PSP
  Introduction to using role-based access control (RBAC) and pod sewcurity policies (PSP) to secure your cluster and manage access control.
• Installing an ingress controller
  How to install the NGINX ingress controller using the Giant Swarm web user interface.
• Exposing workloads
  You can access pods and services from outside your cluster either through the API proxy or through ingress.
• Accepting your cluster’s CA certificate
  To access the API of your server as well as services like the Kubernetes Dashboard using a web browser, you need to import the CA certificate for the cluster and your key pair. Here we show how to do this for several platforms and clients.
• Limiting pod communication
  In order to restrict how pods can communicate with other pods, services and even the world outside your cluster, you can use network policies. This guide gives you an introduction and some common examples.
• Shared installations
  Giant Swarm customers usually work with their own installation(s). However, we also provide shared installations for trials and proof of concept (PoC) projects. This article explains the differences and what to do as a customer to get started on a shared installation.