Giant Swarm
@giantswarm.io
⚡ Platform engineering with a human touch ⚡ Over 10 years running the complex stuff so you can build cool things ⚡ Find out more at giantswarm.io
Thanks @giantswarm.io for another cozy evening. Great Beer choice as usual 😁
Tobiasz's Iceland trip report: 2600 km by car, amazing views, GS t-shirts packed. 10/10, highly recommended.
500 of our own agents in production, 2.8x lower cost per run, 318% more PRs a month. We built the platform on ourselves first. Now we're opening it to design partners.
Introducing the Giant Swarm Agent Platform: Agents that run where your data lives
Your engineers are already running AI agents. The Giant Swarm Agent Platform gives you a sovereign, open-source way to run them safely—isolated, auditable, and on your own Kubernetes infrastructure.
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First birthday: a cake, a fondant bant, a pineapple. Twelfth birthday: same bant, no pineapple, a lot of amazing memories behind us. Thank you to the team and customers. <3
🍝 Knowing 200 people well beats knowing 10,000 in a database. *Every time.* Julia wrote up six lessons from six years of running events at Giant Swarm. The throughline: the event isn't the product. The relationship is. On the blog now.
6 lessons learned from 6 years of building relationships with events » Giant Swarm
Six years of building community at Giant Swarm revealed one truth: the event isn't the product. The relationship is.
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Team Phoenix. Polish mountains. One Giant Swarm scarf. One person in shorts (conditions: snowy). This is what Giant Mansions week looks like when your team takes "go big" literally.
@vxav.bsky.social and Antonia stitched together a Kubernetes cluster from two different hypervisors. It worked. It was also a terrible idea. 🤠 They're sharing what they learned at @cnsmunich.bsky.social — and how Kamaji let them solve the same problem without the custom glue.
CNS Munich - Event Schedule for June 29th and 30th, 2026
Explore the detailed agenda for CNS Munich in Munich on June 29th and 30th, 2026. Listen to expert talks, and connect with Kubernetes and Cloud Native professionals. Plan your day now!
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Marshmallow built great pipelines. Got promoted to "platform team for everyone." Now her Jira is on fire. 🐕🔥 The Level 2 → Level 3 gap breaks almost every platform team.
Overwhelmed by scale: how product thinking fixes platform teams » Giant Swarm
Most platform teams don't fail because they lack talent. They fail because they're running a service team. Giant Swarm's recipe for closing that gap.
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Naval, Warp, and Spotify all discovered the same thing from different angles: the constraint moved from writing code to defining what code to write. Same pattern, three very different contexts. Thoughts from @puja.dev.
The software inflection point: agents, OSS, and InnerSource » Giant Swarm
What happens to open source when agents do the coding? Giant Swarm thinks the maintainer's job just got harder — and more important.
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We'll be there! ◡̈
Cloud Native Summit Munich@cnsmunich.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚀 Excited to share that #CNSMunich schedule is now LIVE! We're looking forward to connecting with fellow cloud-native enthusiasts, sharing insights, and learning from an incredible lineup of speakers and sessions. If you’ll be attending, let’s definitely meet up!
A standard kubelet weighs about a gigabyte. Edge hardware did not get that memo. KubeEdge's EdgeCore: 70 MB, works offline, no drama.
Infrastructure decisions made total sense when you made them. (The world just kept moving.) Manuel Gawert on what a VMware exit actually looks like in practice.
You're probably still paying for a VMware licence you no longer need » Giant Swarm
Still renewing a six-figure VMware license? If your workloads run on Kubernetes, you may be paying for a layer you no longer need. Giant Swarm can help.
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Turns out "we'll fix it when we have more time" is not a platform strategy. It's just what the platform assembly tax sounds like from the inside.
The platform assembly tax: what platform teams keep telling us
The hidden cost of platform engineering isn't building your stack — it's keeping it alive. Giant Swarm surveyed 143 platform teams to find out.
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Maintainers track on #Kubernetes #AI conformance now transitioned from WG to sub-project of SIG architecture by Janet Kuo, @terrytangyuan.xyz and @mfahlandt.bsky.social
The all-star gang representing the Swarm reporting live from KubeCon booth 781.
Catch this guy, Dominik, talking about this topic ⬇️ today at 13h20 at the KubeCon co-located event.
10+ years in action. 150+ production clusters. All of it coming to Booth 781 in Amsterdam soon. See you at KubeCon. 🌷
Giant Swarm on tour at @containerdays.bsky.social London. @glitchcrab.bsky.social @salisburyheavyindustries.com @vxav.bsky.social and Antonia. <3
I’ll be speaking in the Lighthouse Theatre (T6) tomorrow morning!
Giant Swarm@giantswarm.io · 6mo agoFrom Raspberry Pi at the edge to managing hundreds of clusters with Cluster API. Antonia, @vxav.bsky.social, and @glitchcrab.bsky.social are bringing live demos and real-world lessons to @containerdays.bsky.social London tomorrow!
From Raspberry Pi at the edge to managing hundreds of clusters with Cluster API. Antonia, @vxav.bsky.social, and @glitchcrab.bsky.social are bringing live demos and real-world lessons to @containerdays.bsky.social London tomorrow!
Come and Meet our Giant Swarm in Person
From giving talks at conferences to leading workshops, check out where we'll be and where we've been.
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@containerdays.bsky.social London X Giant Swarm 🎤 Our very own @glitchcrab.bsky.social, @vxav.bsky.social and Antonia will be on stage. Kubernetes at the edge. Cluster API in the wild.
ContainerDays London 2026 | Full Agenda for Builders & Cloud Natives
Check out who's taking the stage at ContainerDays London 2026 - two days of Kubernetes, DevOps, and open source sessions shaped by the community.
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