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Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility

6 minute read | April 17, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced extended support prices for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), prompting some businesses to reevaluate how they manage their cloud...

Danielle Cook is a technical writer at Fairwinds.

Security

10 minute read

| March 8, 2023

2023 Benchmark Kubernetes Report: The State of Kubernetes Workload Security

Moving to the cloud remains an important business initiative for organizations around the world. According to the World Economic Forum, digital transformation can enable... Read More

General

7 minute read

| March 7, 2023

KubeCrash Spring 2023 is Here! Learn From Crash Courses on Cloud Native

KubeCon EU is just around the corner, so KubeCrash, the Amsterdam warm-up event, is here too! This is our third time hosting KubeCrash, a KubeCon co-located event for... Read More

Governance

7 minute read

| March 2, 2023

5 Ways Cloud Native Guardrails Help Your Development Team Deliver

Traditional approaches to governance, such as Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) approaches that created a set of detailed practices for IT service and... Read More

Cost

7 minute read

| February 6, 2023

2023 Kubernetes Benchmark Report: The State of Kubernetes Workload Costs

Organizations continue to move to the cloud. In fact, according to Flexera’s 2022 Tech Spend Pulse, 65% of respondents place cloud and cloud migrations as a top priority for... Read More

General

6 minute read

| January 24, 2023

Why Now, Why Free? Try Fairwinds Insights, Kubernetes Governance Today

We’re excited that starting this year we are offering a free tier of Fairwinds Insights, our Kubernetes governance software. Many organizations are just getting started with... Read More

General

7 minute read

| January 10, 2023

2023 Kubernetes Benchmark Report: How Do Your Kubernetes Workloads Compare?

Kubernetes adoption is growing, and as organizations increasingly use it to automate the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications, more teams are... Read More

General

4 minute read

| December 20, 2022

2023 Cloud Native Predictions

As we wrap 2022 and look to 2023, here are a round up of cloud native and Kubernetes predictions by the Fairwinds team: Bill Ledingham, Andy Suderman, Robert Brennan and... Read More

Open Source

14 minute read

| November 21, 2022

Top 4 Kubernetes Open Source Tools You Need in 2023

It’s wild to think that 2022 is wrapping up and that many of us are prepping for what’s next in 2023. As the new year fast approaches, it’s time to consider what Kubernetes... Read More

Best Practices

10 minute read

| November 2, 2022

Why Aren't You Following These 5 Kubernetes Best Practices?

As containers have taken hold as the standard method of developing and deploying cloud-native applications, many organizations are adopting Kubernetes as the solution they... Read More

Featured

6 minute read

| September 22, 2022

3 Things to Know about FinOps and Kubernetes

Recently I undertook the FinOps Foundation training and became certified. If you are looking to expand your FinOps knowledge, I’d highly recommend it. The training is vast... Read More

General

4 minute read

| September 13, 2022

KubeCrash is Back! The KubeCon Detroit Warm-up

I’m so excited to be part of the second KubeCrash happening virtually this year in preparation for KubeCon Detroit. Alongside other great open source contributors -... Read More

Security

6 minute read

| September 8, 2022

Kubernetes Security, Cost Avoidance and Policy Go Hand in Hand

Kubernetes security continues to be one of the biggest concerns for organizations adopting the technology. Security teams are learning Kubernetes while DevOps and developers... Read More