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Explanation 2
- Updated 2026-07-01
Embedded Engineer Add-on
The Embedded Engineer is an add-on to DevOps-as-a-Service that makes dedicated time of one of our engineers available to your team. Where DevOps-as-a-Service runs and safeguards your platform, the Embedded Engineer reaches further: it takes on challenges …
- Updated 2026-05-12
Backups
Kubernetes platform backups Skyscrapers maintains backups of Kubernetes platform configuration - using Velero - according to your retention requirements - as specified in the onboarding SOW or any formal GitHub change requests. By default, Skyscrapers …
How-to guides 1
- Updated 2026-08-26
Pull request reviews & self-apply
Much of the work on your platform happens through pull requests on your GitHub repository, written either by us or by your own team. When your team opens a PR, a Skyscrapers engineer reviews it before the change goes live. This page explains how to get …
Reference 9
- Updated 2026-09-04
Atlantis Self-Apply Agreement
Important This agreement only applies to Customers who have access to the Atlantis features to enable self-service Infrastructure-as-Code changes to the cloud platform that is managed by Skyscrapers. Following our new feature announcement, this agreement …
- Updated 2026-08-26
Handling support requests
As part of the Skyscrapers customer base, we have a knowledgeable team to handle all of your support requests. In order to ensure that we can provide you with the best possible service, we have a few guidelines that we would like to inform you about. …
- Updated 2026-08-26
Support & change request types
In this section of the documentation we will guide you through the process of creating a support or change request for Skyscrapers. Customer Lead At Skyscrapers you have a dedicated customer lead for your project. This person is the end-2-end owner of your …
- Updated 2026-08-26
Request priority
When handling your support requests, we want to make sure we pick them up in the right order. That’s where request prioritization comes in. Priority levels At Skyscrapers use 4 prioritization levels in when handling support requests. Priority Description …
Technologies
Explanation 14
- Updated 2026-09-01
Karpenter
Introduction Karpenter is an open-source cluster autoscaler that automatically provisions new nodes in response to unschedulable pods. Karpenter evaluates the aggregate resource requirements of the pending pods and chooses the optimal instance type to run …
- Updated 2026-09-01
Monitoring
Overview Be default, we use a Prometheus, Alertmanager and Grafana stack for a complete monitoring setup of both our clusters and applications running on them. We make use of the CoreOS operator principle: by deploying prometheus-operator we define new …
- Updated 2026-09-01
VPC CNI
Network Policies VPC CNI VPC CNI Overview The VPC CNI (Container Network Interface) plugin is the default networking plugin for Amazon EKS clusters. The CNI plugin allows Kubernetes Pods to have the same IP address as they do on the VPC network. More …
- Updated 2026-07-28
Tailscale
Overview Tailscale is a modern mesh VPN solution built on WireGuard that Skyscrapers uses to provide secure access to customer Kubernetes clusters and AWS VPCs. While Tailscale is often positioned as a mesh VPN with peer-to-peer connections, Skyscrapers …
How-to guides 17
- Updated 2026-09-07
Use AWS Secrets Manager secrets in Kubernetes
It is possible to automatically mount and use secrets from AWS Secrets Manager in EKS workloads. This documentation page will show you how. Note that this feature is optional for our EKS platform, and it’s disabled by default. If you’d like to …
- Updated 2026-09-04
Terragrunt
Welcome! If you’re here, it means you’re interested in contributing to our infrastructure as code. We encourage and support your involvement. Should you have any questions or need further clarification, please don’t hesitate to reach out …
- Updated 2026-09-01
How-to use the ECR Pull-Through Cache
This guide covers how to enable the ECR Pull-Through Cache for your clusters. The default tier (quay.io and registry.k8s.io) is fully managed by Skyscrapers; there is nothing for you to do. The opt-in tiers (docker.io, ghcr.io, registry.gitlab.com) require …
- Updated 2026-09-01
Kube-green Setup
Introduction This guide shows how to enable kube-green on your cluster and configure sleep schedules to automatically scale down workloads during off-hours. For background on what kube-green is and how it works, see the explanation page. Enabling …
Tutorials 1
- Updated 2026-05-12
What is Kubernetes?
This page is mainly created for Skyscrapers customers that are currently being onboarded to the platform. It assumes no prior knowledge for Kubernetes. It should technically be a much lighter and digestible version of the kubernetes documentation, with our …
Reference 2
- Updated 2026-09-01
Tailscale Deployment
Add under spec.vpn.tailscale in the cluster definition: spec: vpn: tailscale: enabled: true oauthClientID: your-oauth-client-id oauthClientSecretPayload: kms-encrypted-secret replicas: 2 extraRoutes: - "192.168.248.0/24" resources: requests: cpu: …
- Updated 2026-07-10
Service Definition: Tailscale Add-on
DevOps-as-a-Service supports two VPN options for reaching your Kubernetes clusters and AWS VPC, and you choose the one that fits your team: WireGuard is included in DOaaS as a basic, cost-conscious option with basic functionality. The Tailscale Add-on …