Fairwinds Blog

10 Questions to Help You Decide Whether to Hire an SRE or Managed KaaS

9 minute read | February 11, 2025

Deciding between managing Kubernetes in-house or partnering with a managed service provider can be a difficult choice for organizations seeking to optimize their cloud...

Featured

5 minute read

| November 24, 2021

How Kubernetes is Changing the Face of Medical Technology

These days, the healthcare industry relies heavily on software technology to improve communications, deliver faster services and reduce overall costs. Medical technology... Read More

3 minute read

| November 16, 2021

Kick Kubernetes FOMO With Our New Benchmark Report

This week, Fairwinds released our Kubernetes Benchmark Report 2021, blog posts and a white paper to tell everyone what standards look like for security, reliability and... Read More

4 minute read

| November 11, 2021

What does the Great Resignation Have to Do with Kubernetes?

In the spring of 2021, the number of workers who quit their jobs in a single month broke an all-time US record. Economists studying the situation called it the “Great... Read More

News

3 minute read

| November 10, 2021

Find Out How Your Kubernetes Workloads Compare in Our New Benchmark Report

After working long and hard to establish comprehensive and effective Kubernetes ownership, and getting each of your development teams to properly configure their workloads,... Read More

Featured

3 minute read

| November 9, 2021

Fairwinds Insights Now Integrates with PagerDuty

At Fairwinds, we rely on PagerDuty to manage our on call rotations and support our customers—we’re big fans of their product and can’t imagine living without it. Conversely,... Read More

News

3 minute read

| November 5, 2021

Fairwinds Release Notes: 5.6.0 - 6.1.0

We’ve been busy here at Fairwinds. This October, we upgraded many elements of our software, including improvements to our quality of service workloads, PagerDuty Integration,... Read More

Featured

4 minute read

| October 28, 2021

Understanding the Critical Nature of Culture and Enablement When Running Kubernetes

There’s a lot to say when it comes to Kubernetes service ownership. Once your organization understands the ultimate goal of comprehensive service ownership, as outlined in... Read More

Security

4 minute read

| October 20, 2021

Is Kubernetes Service Ownership the Key to Better Container Security?

In the world of software development and Kubernetes, service ownership means development teams take responsibility for supporting the products they deliver, at every stage of... Read More

How to Kube

4 minute read

| October 14, 2021

Why You Should Treat Your Platform Like a Well-Documented API

It’s a common topic of conversation among leaders of technical organizations... Read More

5 minute read

| October 8, 2021

Everything You Need to Know About Kubernetes Ownership Right Now

Today, Kubernetes service ownership is an emerging way for software delivery and operations teams to have complete “ownership” over the services they support. In this model,... Read More

News

8 minute read

| October 5, 2021

Here Are the 4 Hottest Topics To Look For at KubeCon This Year

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2021 is back! The Cloud Native Computer Foundation’s flagship conference is right around the corner on October 13-15 in Los Angeles, CA. Read More

How to Kube

5 minute read

| October 1, 2021

Why Governance & Guardrails are the Real Foundation of Kubernetes Ownership

Would you ever build a house without a roof? How about a master bedroom with no window? Even if you wanted to, your contractor would surely advise against it—and for good... Read More