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Featured

6 minute read

| June 20, 2024

When Should You Bring in a Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service Provider?

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, Kubernetes is a cornerstone technology for container orchestration. As organizations increasingly use Kubernetes, assessing Read More

General

8 minute read

| June 6, 2024

Reflecting on 10 Years of Kubernetes: A Decade of Innovation

Since Kubernetes turns ten this year, I spent some time reflecting on how Kubernetes completely redefined my career. Eight years ago, I was racking servers, running Puppet... Read More

Best Practices

6 minute read

| May 30, 2024

How Old Are Your Kubernetes Nodes?

How old are your Kubernetes nodes? Most often, people don’t know the answer to this question, or if they do, they know that “most” of their nodes are a certain age, and some... Read More

General

6 minute read

| May 15, 2024

Choosing Your Kubernetes Cloud Provider: The Pros and Cons of AKS

In the evolving cloud-native world, Kubernetes has become the gold standard for container orchestration over the past decade. While there are multiple cloud providers that... Read More

Best Practices

36 minute read

| April 22, 2024

A Step-by-Step Guide to Securely Upgrading Your EKS Clusters

As an agile open source project, Kubernetes continues to evolve, as does the cloud computing landscape. Keeping up with the latest versions isn’t practical for many... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

4 minute read

| April 2, 2024

How to Escape the 3 AM Page as a Kubernetes Site Reliability Engineer

It’s Saturday night. You’re out to dinner with friends. Suddenly, a familiar tune emits from your pocket. Dread fills you as you fish your phone out of your pocket and unlock... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

5 minute read

| March 25, 2024

Feeling Stuck in Pivotal Cloud Foundry? We’ll Make Your Move to Kubernetes Easy

Is your organization feeling stuck using Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), now known as Tanzu Application Service (TAS or sometimes VMware Cloud Foundation)? You're not alone.... Read More

Security

5 minute read

| March 14, 2024

Look Good & Gain Peace of Mind with Fairwinds' Managed Kubernetes

Identifying and remediating Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) as soon as possible is important for businesses, particularly when a new vulnerability is disclosed.... Read More

General

5 minute read

| March 6, 2024

Embracing Managed Kubernetes Is a Strategic Move for Your Business

In the continuously evolving world of software engineering and infrastructure management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams have become increasingly important. These... Read More

Best Practices

4 minute read

| August 26, 2020

When to Use a Kubernetes Managed Service vs. Hiring Internally

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

How to Kube

1 minute read

| July 14, 2020

Intro to Terraform and a Managed Kubernetes Service

In this four part series, Fairwinds provides an introduction to using Terraform and a Kubernetes service - GKE, AKS or EKS. 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