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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 …
Reference 9
- Updated 2026-07-10
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 2026-07-10
Offboarding Options
As the DevOps-as-as-Service agreement is pending termination, we want to make sure we hand over the cloud platforms and operations in a way that works for you. This document informs you of our offboarding options. Alternatively, we also offer …
- Updated 2026-05-12
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 2026-05-12
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 …
Technologies
Explanation 14
- Updated 2026-07-16
Grant Skyscrapers access to your AWS account
In order to provide Skyscrapers with access to your AWS account(s), you can use this documentation to configure your accounts with the necessary permissions and trust relationship towards Skyscrapers. This will allow Skyscrapers engineers to assume these …
- Updated 2026-07-10
MongoDB Atlas
We standardise on MongoDB Atlas service four our customer’s MongoDB clusters. Atlas is a fully-managed service to deploy, manage and monitor MongoDB clusters. It’s multi-cloud, so you can choose from various cloud providers to deploy your …
- Updated 2026-07-09
Understanding the GPU monitoring dashboards
The GPU monitoring dashboards are populated by the NVIDIA DCGM Exporter, which runs on every GPU node in your cluster. This page explains what each dashboard is for and how to read its metrics. For the exact definition of any metric, see the DCGM Field …
- Updated 2026-07-03
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 16
- Updated 2026-07-09
GIT
Commits Important Please read this great blog post: https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/. Try to keep commits small Guidelines for good commit messages: Limit the subject line to 50 characters Capitalize the subject line Do not end the subject line …
- Updated 2026-07-03
Tailscale ACL File
Structure The policy file uses HuJSON format (JSON with comments) and includes several key sections: 1. Groups Define groups of users for easier access management: { "groups": { "group:devops": [ "alice@example.com", …
- Updated 2026-06-24
Tailscale Setup
Overview This guide explains how to set up Tailscale integration with Skyscrapers-managed EKS clusters. Tailscale provides secure VPN connectivity to your Kubernetes clusters, enabling private network access to cluster resources and advertised routes. The …
- Updated 2026-06-24
Tailscale Capabilities
Running on the Tailscale Kubernetes Operator gives you more than subnet routing to your VPC. This page covers the extra capabilities you can use and how to turn them on. All of these are opt-in per cluster. Skyscrapers enables the building blocks …
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 2026-07-10
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 …
- Updated 2026-06-24
Tailscale Deployment
Add under spec.tailscale in the cluster definition: spec: tailscale: enabled: true oauth_client_id: your-oauth-client-id oauth_client_secret_payload: kms-encrypted-secret replicas: 2 extra_routes: - "192.168.248.0/24" cpu_requests: "100m" …