Fairwinds Blog

AI Runs Best On Cloud Native—But Who's Managing the Kubernetes Platform?

8 minute read | May 27, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer an experimental side project. It's reshaping industries, the world we live in and becoming central to product innovation and...

How to Kube

8 minute read

| July 14, 2020

Terraform and EKS: a Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying Your First Cluster

In a four part series, we’ve discussed Terraform and why it’s important, and provided a step-by-step guide to Terraform with AKS and GKE. Now we run through EKS. Read More

General

12 minute read

| July 14, 2020

A Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying Your First Kubernetes Cluster with Terraform and GKE

To ensure Kubernetes best practices for building infrastructure, Fairwinds uses common patterns that provide both consistency and customization. Terraform is our tool of... 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

General

2 minute read

| July 2, 2020

The Fairwinds Commitment to Black Lives

We denounce the horrific murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, as well as the other unjust murders of Black people at the hands of police officers and... Read More

Best Practices

4 minute read

| June 30, 2020

CI/CD Enablement: CircleCI vs Jenkins

At Fairwinds, whenever we start work with a new company, we recommend CircleCI for its CI/CD pipeline. There are two main reasons: Read More

Featured

8 minute read

| June 25, 2020

Strengths and Weaknesses of AKS, EKS and GKE

When selecting a managed Kubernetes service like AKS, EKS or GKE, it’s good to know the strengths and weaknesses of each. All of these services have solved how to easily... Read More

General

4 minute read

| June 23, 2020

Why Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code is the ability to provision and manage infrastructure using a configuration language. Infrastructure as code (IAC) brings the repeatability,... Read More

General

4 minute read

| June 16, 2020

Why Managed Kubernetes Enables Team Success

When transitioning to Kubernetes, it is natural that you want in-house expertise. In the long run, that’s probably true. But Kubernetes is a new paradigm for managing your... Read More

General

3 minute read

| June 9, 2020

Kubernetes Support

Kubernetes is a leading cloud-native, open source project. As Kubernetes matures, adoption is on the rise with the help of the CNCF pushing cloud native technologies. 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