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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...

Kendall Miller is President of Fairwinds, the Kubernetes enablement company.

Best Practices

4 minute read

| June 15, 2021

What Does the GitHub Kubernetes Best Practices Badge Mean?

If you’ve been around GitHub land for any period of time, you’ll be familiar with a variety of badges on open source projects. The badges exist to demonstrate the third-party... Read More

News

4 minute read

| May 25, 2021

Prevent Risk and Monitor Kubernetes with Fairwinds & Datadog

It can be challenging to get visibility into cloud applications. There’s so many data points distributed across environments related to servers, containers, databases, and... Read More

Best Practices

6 minute read

| April 1, 2021

Over-Provisioned and Over-Permissioned Containers & Kubernetes

If you live in operations you know every single decision is just one in a seemingly endless series of trade-offs. The “easiest to use systems” are completely accessible by... Read More

General

4 minute read

| February 2, 2021

What is Kubernetes Policy as Code?

From Infrastructure as Code to Policy as Code It wasn’t that long ago people started talking about Infrastructure as Code. Part of the reason why is how fast the technology... Read More

Best Practices

5 minute read

| January 21, 2021

Why Kubernetes Policy Enforcement

Once you’ve overcome the hurdle of deploying Kubernetes, migrating and/or launching your app, now you have to manage Kubernetes. This is no small problem itself. With a... Read More

Kubernetes Clinic Spotlight

17 minute read

| December 15, 2020

Kubernetes Clinic Spotlight on Tabitha Sable: Helping People Level Up

Talking to Tabitha Sable is like trying to stuff 20 pounds of goodness into a 5-pound bag – the whole thing overflows with insight, technical knowledge and a healthy dose of... Read More

Kubernetes Clinic Spotlight

12 minute read

| November 18, 2020

Kubernetes Clinic Spotlight on Liz Fong Jones: Observing Observability

If you are a developer or engineer interested in observability and containerization, you probably know the name Liz Fong Jones. She’s spent her career focused on solving... Read More

General

4 minute read

| October 28, 2020

Improving the Multiplayer Gaming Experience with Kubernetes and Google Cloud Gaming Servers

The mobile gaming market is exploding in 2020. COIVID-19 is making its mark on the industry. In just the first three months of this year, we saw the largest quarter for... Read More

General

5 minute read

| October 23, 2020

Kubernetes Security, Reliability, Efficiency: It’s all about Configuration

The number one cause of security breaches in the cloud is misconfiguration, according to a Security Boulevard article. I dig into why and how to avoid misconfiguration in... Read More

General

2 minute read

| October 2, 2020

Re-platforming is scary. Is it worth it?

Re-platforming is scary. Is it worth it? If you're a technology leader you don't want to have to re-platform unless there is significant ROI for doing so. The two main... Read More

General

1 minute read

| October 2, 2020

Is Kubernetes a New Shiny Engineering Toy?

You fear your engineers just want to fiddle with new tech Read More

General

2 minute read

| October 2, 2020

Can I use Kubernetes Securely?

You fear you lack the ability to use Kubernetes securely Read More