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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...

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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
General
21 minute read
| May 11, 2020

How to Deploy a Multi-Tier Web Application with Kubernetes

In the final introduction to Kubernetes series, we’ll take you through how to deploy a multi-tiered web application. The webapp is a key value storage and retrieval service... Read More
General
5 minute read
| May 11, 2020

How to Build a Kubernetes Cluster in GKE

This series is intended for engineers new to Kubernetes and GKE. It provides a basic overview of Kubernetes, architecture basics and definitions and a quick start for... Read More
General
4 minute read
| May 11, 2020

What Problems Does Kubernetes Solve?

This series is intended for engineers new to Kubernetes and GKE. It provides a basic overview of Kubernetes, definitions and a quick start for building a Kubernetes cluster... Read More
General
13 minute read
| May 11, 2020

Getting Started with Kubernetes: Architecture Basics and Definitions

This series is intended for engineers new to Kubernetes and GKE. It provides a basic overview of Kubernetes, definitions and a quick start for building a Kubernetes cluster... Read More
General
4 minute read
| April 30, 2020

How to Identify if Kubernetes Pods are Running as Root

It's often easier to over-permission a Kubernetes deployment with root access to just get something working, but it’s not recommended. It leads to security issues and over... Read More
News
11 minute read
| April 28, 2020

Introducing Fairwinds Insights: A Kubernetes Management Tool

I have served as a Chief Technology Officer for application security and data security companies for over fifteen years, and during that time I have seen many of the... Read More
General
7 minute read
| April 21, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practices for Monitoring and Alerts

The truth is Kubernetes monitoring done right is a fantasy for most. It’s a problem magnified in a dynamic, ever-changing Kubernetes environment. And it is a serious problem. Read More
General
7 minute read
| April 17, 2020

A Q&A on Kubernetes Basics, Tooling and More

Recently I answered Kubernetes questions submitted by the community. Here is a quick summary of the questions and answers discussed around tooling, Kubernetes basics and... Read More
General
4 minute read
| April 14, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practices for Reliability

Many adopters of Kubernetes attempt to capitalize on 100% of the existing infrastructure automation technology that predates cloud native applications and Kubernetes, such as... Read More
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4 minute read
| April 10, 2020

Kubernetes Solved: Easily Find Deprecated API Versions with Pluto

Pluto is an open source utility to help users easily find deprecated Kubernetes API versions in their Infrastructure-as-Code repositories and Helm releases. The Kubernetes... Read More