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- 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 2026-07-09
Using GPU accelerated instances
To leverage GPU accelerated instances in Kubernetes, there are some pre-requisites and steps to follow. These include both configuration of the cluster and the applications docker image. Infrastructure pre-requisites A karpenter nodePool with ability to …
- 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 …
- Updated 2026-07-03
Tailscale Data and Logging
Overview A common question when adopting Tailscale is: what does Tailscale itself see? This page summarizes what stays private, what metadata the Tailscale coordination server stores, and what is logged. It is based on Tailscale’s own documentation: …
- 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 2026-06-16
Wireguard VPN
Introduction This page describes how to use the Wireguard VPN add-on to securely connect to your Kubernetes cluster and AWS VPC. While we recommend using Tailscale as full-fledged solution, we also provide Wireguard as a simple, cheaper and self-managed …
- Updated 2026-06-09
Explanation of Kubernetes
Walk-through of the Skyscrapers’ Kubernetes cluster Here you’ll find user-level documentation of our Kubernetes reference solution. You’ll learn how to access the cluster, how to deploy applications and services and how to monitor them. …
- Updated 2026-06-02
ECR Pull-Through Cache
The ECR Pull-Through Cache (PTC) is an AWS-managed feature that transparently mirrors container images from upstream public registries into your own Amazon ECR. Skyscrapers uses it to guard your EKS clusters from upstream registry outages and rate limits, …
- Updated 2026-05-15
DevOps-as-a-Service
DevOps-as-a-Service (DOaaS) is a scalable Infrastructure & Operations service for SaaS companies that complements your Development team or expands your DevOps capabilities. At a fixed monthly price, we provide continuous platform improvements, full …
- Updated 2026-05-13
Keep-The-Lights-On
KTLO is managed service offering meant for workloads that are slowly winding down or are no longer being actively developed, and have stable or decreasing usage patterns. KTLO effectively replaces the existing managed service level of DevOps-as-a-Service …
- 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 …