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Main cluster concepts

Overview of the main concepts of cluster management in the Giant Swarm platform.

When managing Kubernetes clusters in the Giant Swarm platform, you’ll come across several concepts that are essential to understand. These concepts are the building blocks of the platform and are crucial for managing clusters effectively. Here we explain the main concepts you should be familiar with.

  • Cluster configuration
    Explanation of how cluster configuration works in Cluster API and how you can customize it.
  • Cluster naming
    The specifications for naming workload clusters in the Giant Swarm platform.
  • Multi-account clusters
    Learn the advantages of using multi-account clusters in the Giant Swarm platform.
  • Organizations
    Organizations in the Giant Swarm platform allow isolation and logical separation of clusters and apps.
  • Private clusters
    Definition of what do we mean by private clusters in the Giant Swarm platform.
  • Workload cluster releases
    Explains how the workload cluster releases works and are defined.
  • Cluster upgrades
    Learn how to upgrade your workload clusters and how to keep them ready for upgrades.