Fairwinds Blog

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...

Open Source

6 minute read

| September 10, 2025

What Is Goldilocks? (Or How to Set Your Kubernetes Resource Requests)

When we open sourced Goldilocks in October 2019, our goal was to provide a dashboard utility that helps you identify a baseline for setting Kubernetes resource requests and... Read More

General

11 minute read

| September 9, 2025

Goldilocks: An Open Source Tool for Recommending Resource Requests

One of the questions that I get most frequently from our clients at Fairwinds is “How do we know what to set our resource requests and limits to?” Goldilocks is an open... Read More

Best Practices

14 minute read

| September 9, 2025

How to Create, View, and Destroy a Pod in Kubernetes

Kubernetes organizes applications into pods, which form the basic building blocks of any workload. In our How-to-Kube series, we began by covering the pod basics. Similar to... Read More

General

8 minute read

| September 9, 2025

Kubernetes 1.34 Released: What's New and When to Upgrade

Kubernetes 1.34 is now generally available, but most organizations aren't running it yet. No rush here, but it’s great to look ahead. The Kubernetes community and leading... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

10 minute read

| September 3, 2025

Why Misconceptions About Cloud Managed Services Can Cost You

Scaling Kubernetes isn’t just about launching containers—it’s about choosing support models that truly let developers innovate instead of drowning in operational noise.... Read More

How to Kube

8 minute read

| September 3, 2025

Terraform and Kubernetes: What Is Terraform and Why Should You Use It?

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

How to Kube

1 minute read

| September 3, 2025

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

9 minute read

| August 29, 2025

How to Streamline Your Kubernetes Add-On Updates and Stay Secure

Kubernetes add-ons are the backbone of modern clusters, powering everything from ingress and networking to observability, security, and automation. Without them, clusters... Read More

General

9 minute read

| August 21, 2025

Peak Traffic: No Problem for Retailers with the Right Infrastructure

Peak shopping seasons are both a massive opportunity and a major stress test for retailers. Whether lines are surging in-store or users are clicking that “buy now” button in... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

9 minute read

| August 13, 2025

How to Build, Optimize, & Manage AI on Google Kubernetes Engine

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly changing modern enterprises, but harnessing its full potential demands not only excellent models, but infrastructure expertise. Google... Read More

Best Practices

10 minute read

| August 6, 2025

Love Your Kubernetes Add-Ons: Securing Kubernetes Beyond the Core

Kubernetes has come a long way, from early pain points around cluster upgrades to more streamlined processes enforced by managed cloud providers. But one area still lagging... Read More

General

9 minute read

| July 30, 2025

Enterprise Kubernetes Management: What Is It & How Can I Tell If I Have It?

Enterprise Kubernetes management is the cornerstone of modern cloud-native operations, enabling organizations to orchestrate, secure, and scale containerized workloads across... Read More