#how-to
How-to guides 19
- 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 …
- Updated 2026-09-01
Tempo Setup
Overview Grafana Tempo is an open-source, high-scale distributed tracing backend. It integrates seamlessly with Grafana for visualizing traces and helps you understand the behavior of your applications during deployments and in production. Tempo is part of …
- Updated 2026-09-01
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 2026-08-26
Pull request reviews & self-apply
Much of the work on your platform happens through pull requests on your GitHub repository, written either by us or by your own team. When your team opens a PR, a Skyscrapers engineer reviews it before the change goes live. This page explains how to get …
- Updated 2026-08-25
Concourse usage
Login with fly fly can be used to access multiple Concourse servers, to accomplish that it has the concept of targets. Each target represents a different Concourse setup, and you need to provide the alias of such target to all the fly commands with the -t …
- 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 …