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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.

Open Source

2 minute read

| May 13, 2021

Introducing the Fairwinds Open Source User Group

Fairwinds loves open source. We are huge advocates of Kubernetes and the community of open source technologies around it. Having managed thousands of clusters for customers... Read More

Best Practices

7 minute read

| May 6, 2021

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes Part 5: Your Top 4 FAQs

As we’ve discussed in this series, there are some things that you should simply never, ever do in Kubernetes. Corey Quinn, founder of Screaming in the Cloud and Chief Cloud... Read More

Best Practices

5 minute read

| April 29, 2021

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes Part 4: Three K8s Efficiency Mistakes

As we outlined in our first post in this series, there are some things that you should simply never, ever do in Kubernetes. Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill... Read More

Featured

7 minute read

| April 28, 2021

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes Part 3: 6 K8s Reliability Mistakes

As we outlined in our first post in this series, there are some things that you should simply never, ever do in Kubernetes. Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill... Read More

Best Practices

4 minute read

| April 22, 2021

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes Part 2: Kubernetes Security Mistakes

As we outlined in our first post in this series, there are some things that you should simply never, ever do in Kubernetes. Corey Quinn, founder of Screaming in the Cloud and... Read More

Best Practices

5 minute read

| April 12, 2021

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes: #1 Do K8S The Hard Way

Whether you are new to Kubernetes or have some experience under your belt, there are some things that you should simply never, ever do in Kubernetes. Corey Quinn, founder of... Read More

Best Practices

5 minute read

| February 17, 2021

What to Measure and Control in Kubernetes

The Kubernetes Maturity Model includes seven phases that you’ll undertake to achieve full maturity. In phase six, we discuss measurement and control. Read More

Best Practices

15 minute read

| January 29, 2021

Kubernetes Maturity Model: Expected Business Outcomes

When you move to Kubernetes, you must show clear business advantages. The business outcomes expected will include cost savings over time as you have better infrastructure... Read More

General

4 minute read

| November 24, 2020

Best Industry Insights from KubeCon 2020

Last week the cloud native industry including Fairwinds, a silver sponsor, came together at KubeCon. With many great talks, here is a rundown of some of the best industry... Read More

Featured

3 minute read

| November 10, 2020

Introducing the Kubernetes Maturity Model

Whether you are new to Kubernetes or you have deployment experience, Kubernetes has complexity that you’ll need to overcome. At Fairwinds, we have been helping companies... Read More

2 minute read

| October 2, 2020

Afraid of Kubernetes? Here’s Why and What to Do About It.

You’re still afraid of Kubernetes, here’s why, and what to do about it. Fairwinds president, Kendall Miller, breaks down why Kubernetes is new, exciting and nothing to be... 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