As teams move beyond their first Kubernetes pilot and into a broader deployment across the organization, DevOps teams have an increasingly difficult job. They don’t have time...
Read More →You are managing Kubernetes users: do you know what’s happening in your clusters? Do you know if your clusters are secure, cost-efficient, or unreliable? This is a problem...
Read More →The Kubernetes Maturity Model includes seven phases that you’ll undertake to achieve full maturity. In phase six, we discuss measurement and control.
Read More →If you are managing a team of engineers using Kubernetes, how do you know what’s really happening in your clusters? That’s a problem we hear about a lot.
Read More →When you move to Kubernetes, you must show clear business advantages. The business outcomes expected will include cost savings over time as you have better infrastructure...
Read More →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 →Our team at Fairwinds, including Bill Ledingham, Kendall Miller, Andy Suderman, Joe Pelletier and Robert Brennan, made predictions for what we can expect in 2021. Amongst the...
Read More →In most cases, organizations pilot Kubernetes with a single application. Once successful, these organizations commit to Kubernetes across multiple apps, development and ops...
Read More →An over permissioned container has all the root capabilities of a host machine. The container can access resources which are not accessible in ordinary containers. While...
Read More →Kubernetes offers two types of health checks: readiness probes and liveness probes.
Read More →Over the years in leadership at Fairwinds I've been part of making decisions about hiring in-house talent or using a managed service. There are a number of situations where...
Read More →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...
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Fairwinds is a Kubernetes managed service provider, Kubernetes Certified Service Provider, and an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with the AWS EKS Service Delivery and Managed Service Provider designations. Our SRE teams manage and operate production Kubernetes environments for organizations across a range of industries.
