Fairwinds Blog

Strengths and Weaknesses of AKS, EKS and GKE

8 minute read | June 25, 2020

When selecting a managed Kubernetes service like AKS, EKS or GKE, it’s good to know the strengths and weaknesses of each. All of these services have solved how to easily...

General

2 minute read

| August 6, 2020

Is Your Kubernetes Infrastructure Production-Grade?

Kubernetes is a powerful open source platform for managing containers that enables declarative configuration and automation. It can be fully customizable to be the PaaS... Read More

General

5 minute read

| August 5, 2020

Do I Need a Kubernetes Managed Service or Professional Service?

Over the last five years we have iterated as a company and moved significantly from "Kubernetes Professional Services" to the other side of the spectrum "Kubernetes... Read More

Best Practices

6 minute read

| July 31, 2020

Kubernetes Problem Solving

No doubt when running Kubernetes you will spend a good amount of time problem solving. Our team does a lot of problem solving across many different Kubernetes deployments.... Read More

Open Source

7 minute read

| July 28, 2020

Nova Open Source Tool - Monitor Helm for New Releases

When running a production Kubernetes cluster, one of the most important (and burdensome) tasks is keeping everything up-to-date. Kubernetes itself cuts quarterly releases,... Read More

How to Kube

4 minute read

| July 24, 2020

22 Essential Kubernetes Concepts

Cloud native represents a paradigm shift in the way infrastructure is deployed. If you are new to cloud native and Kubernetes, there are 22 essential Kubernetes concepts... Read More

How to Kube

9 minute read

| July 14, 2020

Terraform and EKS: a Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying Your First Cluster

In a four part series, we’ve discussed Terraform and why it’s important, and provided a step-by-step guide to Terraform with AKS and GKE. Now we run through EKS. Read More

How to Kube

10 minute read

| July 14, 2020

Getting Started with Terraform and AKS: a Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying Your First Cluster

We are major advocates of using infrastructure as code to manage Kubernetes. Terraform is our tool of choice to mange the entire lifecycle of Kubernetes infrastructure.... Read More

How to Kube

12 minute read

| July 14, 2020

How to Use Terraform with GKE: a Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying Your First Cluster

To ensure Kubernetes best practices for building infrastructure, Fairwinds uses common patterns that provide both consistency and customization. Terraform is our tool of... Read More

How to Kube

8 minute read

| July 14, 2020

What is Terraform and Why is it Important

Running infrastructure at any scale almost always guarantees a dizzying array of components and configurations. To further complicate things, different teams within an... Read More

How to Kube

1 minute read

| July 14, 2020

Intro to Terraform and a Managed Kubernetes Service

In this four part series, Fairwinds provides an introduction to using Terraform and a Kubernetes service - GKE, AKS or EKS. Read More

Best Practices

11 minute read

| July 9, 2020

5 Problems with Kubernetes Cost Estimation Strategies

Estimating how much you are spending (or wasting) on a particular Kubernetes workload is hard. The good news is that there are some reasonable strategies for estimating... Read More

How to Kube

6 minute read

| July 8, 2020

Common Considerations and Pitfalls when Implementing Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a whole new world. Many organizations have been running their own servers for forever, and are used to being able to walk across the datacenter floor to flip... Read More