Giant Swarm

🚀 We're thrilled to announce that we're back as a sponsor at #VMware #Explore in #Barcelona from November 4-7th! 🚀 At Giant Swarm, we're passionate about all things cloud-native and platform engineering. VMware Explore offers the perfect platform for us to connect, collaborate, and share insights with fellow enthusiasts and experts in the field. But that's not all – we have some major announcements to make! 📣 Introducing Giant Swarm Platform 3.0 – the next evolution in cloud-native management - for #vSphere and #CloudDirector. Built on ClusterAPI with GitOps our latest version offers: 🔄 Lifecycle Management of Any Cluster, Anywhere 🔒 Global Security and Governance 💰 Global Cost Management and Optimization 📊 Global Application Management Across All Clusters 🛠️ A Wide Range of Fully Managed Open Source Tools Developers Love 🚀 Developer Portals Built on Backstage – Providing a Seamless Experience With Giant Swarm Platform 3.0, we're revolutionizing how you deploy, secure, and optimize your applications with ease, from edge to cloud. It's a game-changer for developers and platform engineers alike. Join us at VMware Explore, where we'll be diving deeper into these exciting developments. Let's connect, share ideas, and chart the course for the future of cloud-native computing together! See you at VMware Explore! Our team can't wait to meet you in Barcelona and add more unforgettable moments. #VMwareExplore #CloudNative #Kubernetes #GiantSwarmPlatform3 #ClusterManagement #DeveloperPlatform #PlatformEngineering #HeadofInfrastructure #SRE #SystemsEngineering

Well, look at this trio representing Giant Swarm at #KCDUK! 😎 ☁️Marcus Noble took center stage, sharing his real-world experiences with hardening #Kubernetes clusters using admission policies. If you missed it, good news: he's bringing 'From Fragile to Resilient: Using Admission Policies to Strengthen Kubernetes' to Cloud Native Rejekts in Salt Lake City this November. Kudos to the #KCDUK crew for another great event! 💙

🚀 2 weeks to go until VMware #ExploreEurope ! Come visit Giant Swarm at Booth 513 and discover how we're driving the modernization of smart manufacturing with our cloud-native platform 🌐⚙️. We can't wait to share our latest innovations with you! I will also be talking about Kubernetes at Scale with a Cloud Native platform on Tuesday, 5th October at 2:30 PM. Register here: https://lnkd.in/et6rZ38t See you there! 👋

👋 ☁️Marcus Noble is hitting the stage at #KCDUK tomorrow! If your #Kubernetes clusters are more wobbly than you'd like, you won't want to miss this! Marcus will dive into admission policies — the secret sauce for turning fragile setups into rock-solid systems. He'll break it down in a way that'll have you itching to implement changes ASAP. 😎

It’s Kubernetes Community Days UK - London tomorrow!!! 🎉 I’ll be there with some of my Giant Swarm colleagues - come find us and say hello! 💙 I’m also giving a talk on the main stage in the afternoon and would love to see all of you in the audience! #KCD #KCDUK #KubernetesCommunityDays #Kubernetes #K8s #CloudNative

🌏 Where in the world is Giant Swarm? 🌏 First up, #KCDUK is bringing the Kubernetes community together in London on October 22nd. ☁️Marcus Noble will be diving into the world of admission policies and how they can fortify your Kubernetes setup. Intrigued by the idea of moving from fragile to resilient? This talk's got you covered. ✅ Next, we're touching down in our hometown Cologne on October 30th for Platform Engineering Cologne. Puja Abbassi will be tackling the challenges of service iteration and rollouts. Knee-deep in platform engineering and sprichst du deutsch? This talk's got your name on it. 🇩🇪 But wait, there's more! We're wrapping up our tour in sunny Barcelona on November 5th at VMware Explore. 👋 Xavier Avrillier will be suiting up for "K8s at Scale: The Superhero's Guide to Cloud-Native Mastery." Don your cape and join us! 🦸

Not being able to join our company wide on site is a great occasion to just talk to all of you instead. So here is a recording of our Giant Swarm #GiantConversations Podcast, where you can listen to me talk about Platform-As-A-Product on the treadmill, in the kitchen, walking your dog or wherever else one streams podcasts ❤️🎉 https://lnkd.in/dpP5DxX2

Winning moments at adidas HQ! Our co-founder, Oliver Thylmann, just spent two enlightening days at the adidas Tech Summit, diving deep into the world where innovation meets sport. Oliver shares: "𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘴 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘴." At Giant Swarm, we're proud to work with visionary companies like adidas. Here's to continued innovation! 🚀

Excited to share: 👋 Xavier Avrillier will be speaking at #VMwareExplore! 🦸♂️ "K8s At Scale: The Superhero's Guide To Cloud-Native Mastery" Learn how GitOps, Cluster API, Observability, and Security power Kubernetes at scale on VMware. Xavier says: "I've been in the VMware community for years but haven't got the chance to speak at VMware Explore until now. It's nice to bring some more cloud native stuff to this great conference!" Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eazcer6u

I'm thrilled to share that I will have a community session at VMware Explore in Barcelona, sharing insights on Kubernetes, Cluster API and cloud-native environments with a fun approach to it. You can find the schedule here: https://lnkd.in/et6rZ38t You can also catch me and my Giant Swarm friends at the booth to chat about Cloud Native stuff. 😉 Looking forward to seeing you all there #ExploreEurope !