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- Updated 2026-09-01
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 2026-09-01
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 …
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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 …
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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 2026-07-28
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 …
- 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 2026-07-09
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 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: …