#how-to
How-to guides 23
- Updated 2026-10-21
Grafana Cloud
If you use a Grafana Cloud stack, your cluster can forward your applications’ OpenTelemetry traces and metrics to it. Your applications send to an endpoint inside the cluster, and the cluster forwards to Grafana Cloud. The Grafana Cloud tokens stay …
- Updated 2026-10-21
Connect your cluster to Aikido
Note Our Aikido offering is still a pilot, running with a select number of customers. Interested in joining? Ask your Customer Lead. Aikido can scan your Kubernetes cluster for misconfigurations and, optionally, the container images it runs for …
- Updated 2026-10-19
Bitbucket Pipelines runners
You can run self-hosted Bitbucket Pipelines runners on your Kubernetes cluster, scaled on demand by Atlassian’s runners-autoscaler. The autoscaler registers runners in your Bitbucket workspace or repository, starts a runner Job on the cluster for …
- Updated 2026-10-19
GitHub Actions runner controller
You can dynamically deploy Github self-hosted runners on the Kubernetes clusters using the gha-runner-scale-set-controller. The controller allows developers to define either organization or repository runners, and it automatically handles the registration …
- Updated 2026-10-19
Traefik Ingress
Introduction This page describes how to use various features of Traefik as an Ingress Controller in your Kubernetes cluster. These are the most common examples we notice when helping our customers to set up Ingresses. Pre-requisites First determine whether …
- 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 …
- Updated 2026-09-01
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 2026-09-01
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 …
- Updated 2026-09-01
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 …