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AI Runs Best On Cloud Native—But Who's Managing the Kubernetes Platform?

8 minute read | May 27, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer an experimental side project. It's reshaping industries, the world we live in and becoming central to product innovation and...

Best Practices

9 minute read

| July 9, 2025

Kubernetes Policy as Code: The Foundation of Modern Cluster Governance

At KubeCon EU this April, I was on a panel presenting “A Practical Guide To Kubernetes Policy as Code.” I was joined by Rita Zhang, a Principal Engineer at Microsoft, the SIG... Read More

Best Practices

11 minute read

| July 3, 2025

Why Your Kubernetes Platform Needs Both Freedom and Control to Succeed

Building and managing a Kubernetes-based platform for multiple development teams is a complex project. On one side, you want to empower developers with the flexibility to... Read More

Security

12 minute read

| June 25, 2025

Is Your Container OS Insecurity Making Your K8s Infrastructure Less Secure?

The decision to adopt a purpose-built container operating system (OS) versus maintaining a standard OS across legacy and cloud-native systems depends on your organization’s... Read More

General

8 minute read

| June 20, 2025

Enterprise Kubernetes Explained: How to Leverage K8s Effectively

Enterprise Kubernetes management is at the heart of modern cloud-native strategies, enabling organizations to deploy, scale, and govern applications effectively. In 2025,... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

8 minute read

| June 13, 2025

A Guide to Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service Shared Responsibility Model

Kubernetes is powerful, but managing it in-house can be a major drain on your engineering resources. That’s why many organizations are turning to Fairwinds Managed... Read More

General

4 minute read

| June 9, 2025

9 AI Infrastructure Terms: Must-Know Definitions

With the rise of AI across every industry, the buzzwords are flying fast—AI infrastructure, infrastructure for AI workloads, autonomous infrastructure, and more. The problem?... Read More

How to Kube

7 minute read

| June 5, 2025

Kubernetes Infrastructure Design Assessment: Optimizing Your Cloud-Native Foundation

A Kubernetes Infrastructure Design Assessment is an important step for organizations seeking to ensure reliable, cost effective, and secure infrastructure. At Fairwinds, a... Read More

Cost

9 minute read

| June 3, 2025

Improving Cost Efficiency with Karpenter 1.0: An Upgrade Guide

Karpenter has emerged as a game-changer for Kubernetes cluster management, offering dynamic node provisioning and cost optimization. Originally created to change how... Read More

Featured

8 minute read

| May 27, 2025

AI Runs Best On Cloud Native—But Who's Managing the Kubernetes Platform?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer an experimental side project. It's reshaping industries, the world we live in and becoming central to product innovation and... Read More

General

6 minute read

| May 22, 2025

Cloud Agnosticism is a Myth. Long Live Cloud Agnosticism!

The concept of cloud agnosticism—building applications and services that can operate seamlessly across multiple cloud service providers (CSPs)—has long been hailed as a way... Read More

Best Practices

9 minute read

| May 15, 2025

Balancing Security, Compliance, and Visibility in Kubernetes Infrastructure

The shift to cloud-native infrastructure has introduced a difficult dilemma for many security and compliance teams: do compliance requirements and the desire for visibility... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

7 minute read

| May 8, 2025

How Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service Unlocks Immediate Value

In this digital-first world, organizations are constantly under pressure to deliver software and services faster, more reliably, and at greater scale. Platform teams, often... Read More