# Keeping it boring: the incident.io technology stack

DevFeed: [Keeping it boring: the incident.io technology stack](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/keeping-it-boring-the-incident-io-technology-stack-11862.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/keeping-it-boring-the-incidentio-technology-stack>)

Author: Matthew Barrington

Published: 2026-02-26T15:28:47Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/containers.md>), [customers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/customers.md>), [gcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gcp.md>), [google-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-cloud.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [processes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/processes.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [technology-stack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology-stack.md>), [virtual-machines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/virtual-machines.md>)

## AI overview

incident.io describes an intentionally simple technology stack built around managed Google Cloud services and a small platform team. Its default compute environment is GKE Autopilot, while workloads with long-lived processes or substantial storage or resource needs run on Google Compute Engine virtual machines. The article discusses the operational trade-offs of managed Kubernetes, including limitations around node lifetimes, system namespaces, and DNS configuration, and explains the use of Cloud Init for immutable, short-lived hosts.

## Source excerpt

This is the story of how incident.io keeps its technology stack intentionally boring, scaling to thousands of customers with a lean platform team by relying on managed GCP services and a small set of well-chosen tools.