Platform Overview

If you know little about Giant Swarm and are about to get started with our product, this is where you can find some introductory and high-level description of what to expect.

An effective self-service and cloud-native developer platform enables developers to quickly and easily deploy and manage their applications in the cloud. To get the most out of this platform, it should be open-source and managed by an experienced team of Site Reliability Engineers (SREs).

Giant Swarm operates developer platforms in the data centers and clouds of their customers. Keeping them secure, stable, and up to date, ensuring that developers have the best experience possible.

• Why do you need a Developer Platform?
  Self-service developer platforms enable your organization and this page helps you to understand why.
• Cluster management
  Supported cloud providers and cluster management features offered by Giant Swarm.
• Management API
  Introduction to the Giant Swarm Management API, the Kubernetes API of the management cluster in your Giant Swarm installation.
• Platform architecture
  Architecture overview explaining how our platform is built and what services it offers.
• App platform
  The app platform allows to manage app catalogs and apps, for simple and standardized deployment across the platform.
• Multi-tenancy
  The Organization concept in the Giant Swarm Management API helps keep resources for different tenants separate.
• Observability
  Overview of the observability related platform features to help you operate and improve your platform and applications.
• Connectivity
  Overview of the connectivity related platform features, which includes ingress controllers, api gateways, and service meshes.
• Security
  Overview of security related features and approaches using the Giant Swarm Developer Platform.
• Web interface
  Documentation on our web interface, a visual way to manage your Giant Swarm platform.