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Fairwinds Named a Cool Vendor in the Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Container Management

4 minute read | August 16, 2023

I’m very pleased and proud to announce that Fairwinds has been named in the 2023 Gartner Cool Vendor™ in Container Management report! We believe this is an honor for the...

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Thoughts
5 minute read
| October 16, 2019

Heroku Vs. Kubernetes: The Big Differences You Should Know

At first glance, a Heroku vs Kubernetes comparison might seem odd. They're starkly different technologies and target completely separate groups. One is designed to get code... Read More
Thoughts
13 minute read
| September 25, 2019

5 Key Considerations When Choosing Kubernetes

Like almost everyone running software in the cloud, you’ve decided it’s time for Kubernetes adoption. Now what? Read More
Thoughts
6 minute read
| August 20, 2019

Infrastructure as Code Should not Have a Single Point of Failure

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Thoughts
5 minute read
| August 14, 2019

Deciding on Amazon ECS vs. Kubernetes for Container Orchestration

When it comes to container orchestration, Kubernetes has become the de-facto standard for managing and running containerized workloads in production. “Openness” is one of the... Read More
Thoughts
4 minute read
| August 14, 2019

The Benefits of Managed Kubernetes vs. Amazon ECS

In a previous post, we discussed the pros and cons of solutions like AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) for container orchestration. As of 2019, Kubernetes has become the... Read More
Thoughts
3 minute read
| July 16, 2019

Why choose Kubernetes?

If you are in the process of migrating your workloads to the cloud for the first time, you’ve likely come across the topic of containerization and microservices.... Read More
Thoughts
2 minute read
| August 8, 2018

Kubernetes is the Wrong Answer

Kubernetes is amazing, and the wave of the future except for the minor flaw that it's secretly terrible. Read More
Thoughts
7 minute read
| June 21, 2018

IaaM - Infrastructure as a Motorcycle

No, IaaM is not a new offering of ours, it’s just going to be an extended metaphor for the purposes of this blog post. If someone figures out how to offer true IaaM….... Read More
Thoughts
2 minute read
| April 5, 2018

How to Explain Kubernetes

Fairwinds sent two of us to SCaLE16x in Pasadena last month. Always an entertaining conference, it gave us a chance to have a variety of conversations with folks from all... Read More
Thoughts
6 minute read
| March 19, 2018

GCP and AWS run your servers, now let Fairwinds handle your DevOps

There are a lot of companies out there who offer straight DevOps consulting. While we sometimes do one-off consulting projects, our focus at Fairwinds is a little different.... Read More
Thoughts
4 minute read
| February 21, 2018

The Myth of Cloud Agnosticism

Kubernetes gets you further down the road to a cloud adoption strategy and being able to abstract away which public cloud vendor you choose than any technology in recent... Read More
Thoughts
4 minute read
| January 30, 2018

Hurtling Down the Mountain of Infrastructure Best Practices

I asked Kendall how he felt about the rapid paradigm shifts of "modern best infrastructure practices" and his response was enlightening: "I'm on a ski slope." Read More