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Kubernetes: The Cost of Doing It Wrong

6 minute read | February 20, 2023

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7 minute read
| January 18, 2022

Spotlight on Karpenter, Goldilocks and Cluster Autoscaling with Open Source

At Fairwinds, we are dedicated to empowering our open source community. Through our own tooling, we work hard to give back to this valued group, building quality open source... Read More
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7 minute read
| December 17, 2021

Why You Need to Establish Better Kubernetes Security

By now, most people in the cloud native world know at least a few things about the benefits of successful Kubernetes service ownership. As a way to break down silos and... Read More
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4 minute read
| December 7, 2021

Accurate Kubernetes Cost Monitoring and Management

Understanding the cost of the cloud and all subsets of that cloud consumption is becoming an ever increasing requirement for DevOps leaders. In fact, FinOps has become the... Read More
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7 minute read
| December 2, 2021

5 Ways to Boost the Strength and Flexibility of Your Organization

As someone who arrived in an Engineering VP role through the business side, rather than the traditional engineering track, I’ve worked in many different kinds of... Read More
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4 minute read
| December 1, 2021

Check Out the Specifics of Our New Goldilocks Upgrade

The original goal of our open source project, Goldilocks, was to provide a dashboard utility for identifying a baseline in Kubernetes resource requests and limits. To provide... Read More
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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
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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
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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
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6 minute read
| June 22, 2021

How to Choose: Benefits of Using Polaris vs. Fairwinds Insights?

The team at Fairwinds has managed hundreds of clusters for dozens of organizations, which gives us unique insight into the problems most organizations encounter in their... Read More
News
4 minute read
| May 25, 2021

Prevent Risk and Monitor Kubernetes with Fairwinds & Datadog

It can be challenging to get visibility into cloud applications. There’s so many data points distributed across environments related to servers, containers, databases, and... Read More
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7 minute read
| April 28, 2021

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes Part 3: 6 K8s Reliability Mistakes

As we outlined in our first post in this series, there are some things that you should simply never, ever do in Kubernetes. Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill... Read More
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5 minute read
| April 13, 2021

An Easier Way to Audit your Kubernetes Infrastructure: Self-hosted Fairwinds Insights

We’re excited to announce that a self-hosted release of Fairwinds Insights is now in beta! Read More