Cluster management

Management of workload clusters across different regions and cloud providers.

• Separate the pod network on AWS using Cilium ENI IPAM mode
  Allocate pod IPs directly on the AWS network using a second VPC CIDR with separate security group and subnets.
• Access your workload cluster API via automation
  Access your cluster API from an automation requires a hands-free way to provide credentials to kubectl or any Kubernetes client. This article explains how to obtain a service account token to use in such a scenario.
• Cluster scaling
  How to configure and manage the scaling of your workload clusters on Giant Swarm.
• Migration to Cluster API
  How the migration from our old AWS vintage management clusters to Cluster API works.
• Clusters over multiple availability zones
  Using multiple availability zones both for worker and control plane nodes increases the resilience of the cluster. Here you will see some details regarding support on different cloud providers and releases, plus how to configure workloads to leverage multiple availability zones.
• Node pools
  A general description of node pools as a concept, its benefits, and some details you should be aware of.
• Deletion prevention
  Learn how to protect clusters from accidental deletion by using a specific label.
• Labelling workload clusters
  Guide on using labels with workload clusters for the purpose of grouping, categorization and selection.
• Advanced cluster autoscaler configuration
  Here we describe how you can customize the configuration of the managed cluster autoscaler service in your workload clusters.