Fairwinds Blog

2026 Kubernetes Playbook: AI at Scale, Self‑Healing Clusters, & Growth

15 minute read | December 29, 2025

In 2026, the question isn’t whether Kubernetes wins – it already has. And yet, many organizations are running mission-critical workloads on a platform they still treat as...

General

9 minute read

| July 30, 2025

Enterprise Kubernetes Management: What Is It & How Can I Tell If I Have It?

Enterprise Kubernetes management is the cornerstone of modern cloud-native operations, enabling organizations to orchestrate, secure, and scale containerized workloads across... Read More

Best Practices

24 minute read

| July 23, 2025

Kubernetes Add-Ons Need Love Too: Increasing Cluster Security Through Add-On Maintenance

This is the transcript of a talk presented at KubeCon Japan titled "Add-Ons Need Love Too: Increasing Cluster Security Through Add-On Maintenance." Read More

General

10 minute read

| July 22, 2025

From Legacy Tech to Cloud-Native: Modernizing Retail Infrastructure

Retail organizations today face unprecedented pressures, from rapidly changing customer expectations to surging data volumes and omnichannel complexity. Many still rely on... Read More

General

9 minute read

| July 15, 2025

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes: UTM Stack Support & Customer Dashboard

Over the last couple of months, we’ve been working on making several significant updates to Fairwinds Insights. We’ve delivered some great new functionality that our Insights... Read More

Best Practices

9 minute read

| July 9, 2025

Kubernetes Policy as Code: The Foundation of Modern Cluster Governance

At KubeCon EU this April, I was on a panel presenting “A Practical Guide To Kubernetes Policy as Code.” I was joined by Rita Zhang, a Principal Engineer at Microsoft, the SIG... Read More

Best Practices

11 minute read

| July 3, 2025

Why Your Kubernetes Platform Needs Both Freedom and Control to Succeed

Building and managing a Kubernetes-based platform for multiple development teams is a complex project. On one side, you want to empower developers with the flexibility to... Read More

Security

12 minute read

| June 25, 2025

Is Your Container OS Insecurity Making Your K8s Infrastructure Less Secure?

The decision to adopt a purpose-built container operating system (OS) versus maintaining a standard OS across legacy and cloud-native systems depends on your organization’s... Read More

General

8 minute read

| June 20, 2025

Enterprise Kubernetes Explained: How to Leverage K8s Effectively

Enterprise Kubernetes management is at the heart of modern cloud-native strategies, enabling organizations to deploy, scale, and govern applications effectively. In 2025,... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

8 minute read

| June 13, 2025

A Guide to Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service Shared Responsibility Model

Kubernetes is powerful, but managing it in-house can be a major drain on your engineering resources. That’s why many organizations are turning to Fairwinds Managed... Read More

General

4 minute read

| June 9, 2025

9 AI Infrastructure Terms: Must-Know Definitions

With the rise of AI across every industry, the buzzwords are flying fast—AI infrastructure, infrastructure for AI workloads, autonomous infrastructure, and more. The problem?... Read More

How to Kube

7 minute read

| June 5, 2025

Kubernetes Infrastructure Design Assessment: Optimizing Your Cloud-Native Foundation

A Kubernetes Infrastructure Design Assessment is an important step for organizations seeking to ensure reliable, cost effective, and secure infrastructure. At Fairwinds, a... Read More

Cost

9 minute read

| June 3, 2025

Improving Cost Efficiency with Karpenter 1.0: An Upgrade Guide

Karpenter has emerged as a game-changer for Kubernetes cluster management, offering dynamic node provisioning and cost optimization. Originally created to change how... Read More