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- Updated 2026-11-02
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 2026-11-02
Service Mesh
Istio We use Istio as service mesh. We offer this as an optional feature, so let us know if you want to enable it. You can check if Istio is installed in your cluster with the following command: kubectl get pods -n istio-system We also deploy Kiali, …
- Updated 2026-10-29
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 2026-10-29
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 2026-10-29
VPN
This page provides an overview of the VPN solutions available for securely connecting to your Kubernetes cluster and AWS VPC. We offer two options: Wireguard and Tailscale. While we recommend using Tailscale as a full-fledged solution, we also provide …
- Updated 2026-10-29
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 2026-10-29
Aikido
Note Our Aikido offering is still a pilot, running with a select number of customers. Interested in joining? Ask your Customer Lead. Aikido is a security platform that scans your code, containers, cloud and Kubernetes setup, and gathers what it finds in …
- Updated 2026-10-21
Grafana Tempo
This guide explains how to use Grafana Tempo for distributed tracing in your applications running on Kubernetes. It’s written for Skyscrapers customers who want to use tracing. Overview Grafana Tempo is a highly scalable, cost-effective tracing backend …
- Updated 2026-10-15
Forward Deployed Engineer Add-on
The Forward Deployed 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 Forward Deployed Engineer reaches further: it takes …
- Updated 2026-09-14
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 2026-09-01
Ingress
Overview An Ingress Controller is a specialized load balancer for Kubernetes that manages external access to services within a cluster. While Kubernetes Services expose applications internally, an Ingress Controller acts as the entry point for HTTP/HTTPS …
- 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 …