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.

• Setup of 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.
• Access to the management cluster
  The Giant Swarm Management API is easily accessible by means of kubectl-gs, a kubectl plugin developed by Giant Swarm. This tutorial guides you throughout some of the most important features of the tool.
• Creating a workload cluster
  The Giant Swarm Management API is easily accessible by means of kubectl-gs, a kubectl plugin developed by Giant Swarm. This tutorial guides you throughout some of the most important features of the tool.
• Sizing, multi-tenancy and autoscaling
  Recommendations and best practices around cluster and node sizing as well as multi-tenant setups.
• Deploy applications using App platform
  The app platform allows to manage app catalogs and apps, for simple and standardized deployment in all your workload clusters.
• Installing an ingress controller
  How to install the Ingress NGINX 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.
• Persistent volumes
  Basic information on using Persistent Volumes in Giant Swarm workload clusters.
• Observability
  Giant Swarm runs an observability stack made up of multiple open source components. Learn how to interact with it.
• Securing your cluster with RBAC and PSS
  Introduction to using role-based access control (RBAC) and pod security standards (PSS) to secure your cluster and manage access control.
• Cluster operations
  Guides and best practices to help you operate your Giant Swarm clusters quickly.
• 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.