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...

Andy Suderman is the CTO at Fairwinds.

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

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

General

10 minute read

| July 22, 2025

From Legacy Tech to Cloud-Native: Modernizing Retail Infrastructure

Retail organizations today face unprecedented pressures, from rapidly changing customer expectations to surging data volumes and omnichannel complexity. Many still rely on... Read More

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

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

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

Open Source

10 minute read

| May 1, 2025

Kubernetes Resource Optimization & Best Practices with Goldilocks

Kubernetes is now the industry standard for orchestrating containerized workloads, but efficient resource management remains a challenge for many organizations. It’s... Read More

General

8 minute read

| April 17, 2025

Time to Migrate from On-Prem to Cloud? What You Need to Know

Migrating from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud is an important step for any business seeking to modernize operations, improve scalability, and (potentially) reduce... Read More

General

6 minute read

| March 20, 2025

Can’t Miss Keynotes & Tech Talks at KubeCon Europe 2025

I can’t believe that KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 is just around the corner! Once again, I’m excited to meet up with my friends and colleagues again at this event... Read More

General

8 minute read

| February 5, 2025

Are You Still Using VMware Tanzu? (And Is Now the Time to Migrate?)

Many organizations used VMware Tanzu when they were seeking to modernize their applications and infrastructure. This suite of products and services was designed to help... Read More