Fairwinds Blog

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...

Robert Brennan is the Vice President of Product Development at Fairwinds.

How to Kube

6 minute read

| September 2, 2020

Understanding Kubernetes Controllers: A Key Concept for Managing Your Applications

If you’re new to Kubernetes, one of the first concepts you’ll want to familiarize yourself with is the Controller. Most Kubernetes users do not create Pods directly; instead... Read More

Open Source

9 minute read

| August 18, 2020

Gemini: Automate Backups of PersistentVolumes in Kubernetes

Persistent Storage is Hard Read More

Open Source

7 minute read

| July 28, 2020

Nova Open Source Tool - Monitor Helm for New Releases

When running a production Kubernetes cluster, one of the most important (and burdensome) tasks is keeping everything up-to-date. Kubernetes itself cuts quarterly releases,... Read More

Best Practices

11 minute read

| July 9, 2020

5 Problems with Kubernetes Cost Estimation Strategies

Estimating how much you are spending (or wasting) on a particular Kubernetes workload is hard. The good news is that there are some reasonable strategies for estimating how... Read More

How to Kube

6 minute read

| July 8, 2020

Common Considerations and Pitfalls when Implementing Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a whole new world. Many organizations have been running their own servers for forever, and are used to being able to walk across the datacenter floor to flip a... Read More

Featured

8 minute read

| June 5, 2020

Making Sense of Kubernetes with Fairwinds Insights

When I started working with Kubernetes, I thought it’d be a fairly simple transition. I’d been working in AWS for years, and on Linux for years before that. I knew about... Read More

Open Source

18 minute read

| June 2, 2020

Fairwinds Polaris 1.0 - Best Practices for Kubernetes Workloads

I’m excited to announce that we’ve released Fairwinds Polaris 1.0! Read More

General

5 minute read

| April 3, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practices for Security

Kubernetes is the dominant container orchestration solution. The genius of Kubernetes is its ability to provide you with a framework to run distributed systems resiliently.... Read More

General

5 minute read

| March 3, 2020

The Journey from Heroku to Kubernetes in 5 Steps

Using Heroku is like living in a fancy housing development with an HOA; it’s safe, predictable, structured — and comes at a premium. Read More

General

4 minute read

| February 20, 2020

Kubernetes Strategies to Make Your Team More Efficient

Applications have numerous stakeholders — and sometimes those stakeholders come into conflict. Read More

General

4 minute read

| January 29, 2020

Optimizing Development Operations to Overcome Employee Turnover

When the DevOps Director leaves your company, they take their knowledge of your development operations infrastructure with them. If your DevOps infrastructure is not... Read More

General

4 minute read

| December 20, 2019

Container Orchestration Essentials

So you've decided Kubernetes as a container orchestration system is the right move for your application. Congratulations and welcome. You've made the right decision and... Read More