Fairwinds Blog

6 Kubernetes Cost Control Strategies You Need in Place for 2023

8 minute read | November 8, 2022

Organizations have increasingly undertaken cloud migration initiatives, moving from on-premises data centers to adopting containers and Kubernetes to change their...

EJ Etherington is CTO at Fairwinds, the Kubernetes enablement company.

How to Kube

8 minute read

| October 29, 2020

Considering a Move to Kubernetes? Here’s What You Need to Know

So your team is suggesting you replatform to Kubernetes and you’re wondering if this is the right thing to do? Read More

Developer Hub

8 minute read

| December 6, 2019

Running stateful application workloads in Kubernetes

One of the most common questions we get from clients and prospective clients is, "Will you run our database in Kubernetes"? Typically our answer is "No, and you probably... Read More

8 minute read

| November 15, 2017

Update to Pentagon: a Framework for Building Kubernetes-based Infrastructure

Pentagon is an open source tool that dramatically reduces the number of manual steps required to create an infrastructure. It saves time, reduces errors and vastly improves... Read More

4 minute read

| June 1, 2017

Introducing Pentagon

Background In 2015, when I founded Fairwinds (f.k.a ReactiveOps), we started with a simple idea: to bring great infrastructure to companies that couldn’t - or didn’t want to... Read More

Thoughts

7 minute read

| April 3, 2017

Docker Is a Valuable DevOps Tool – One That’s Worth Using

Docker is one of the most talked-about technologies of the past year, and adoption rates are increasing rapidly – for good reason. For some developers and operations... Read More

Thoughts

9 minute read

| April 3, 2017

Docker Is Easier to Use Than You Think

In my last blog post, I focused on why Docker is beneficial to use and why it offers significant value in a broad range of use cases. In part II of this series, I’ll focus on... Read More