Test-Drive EKS with Fairwinds' EKS Kickstart Program
Managing Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) can be complex and requires deep expertise. Fairwinds lowers the barrier to entry by providing people-led, white-glove EKS managed services—designed for scalability, security, automation, and repeatability.
Whether deploying a new application, rolling out a Proof of Concept (POC) or Proof of Value (POV) for EKS, or migrating existing workloads to EKS, our Kubernetes Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) deliver support for you at every step. We rapidly stand up production-grade EKS clusters, equipped with best-in-class tooling and add-ons using GitOps, an approach that leverages Git repositories as the single source of truth for automating Kubernetes infrastructure. This ensures transparency, version control, and reliable recovery, thereby improving resiliency.
At Fairwinds, we simplify EKS onboarding, remove pain points, and accelerate your EKS cloud adoption, increasing speed-to-production with enterprise-grade security, resiliency, and automation.
Step 1: EKS Cluster Setup
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Rapid provisioning of secure, production-ready EKS clusters, built to maximize the power of EKS for your business.
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Complete compliance with Amazon EKS best practices for architecture, networking, identity and access management (IAM), and node group management.
Step 2: Add-Ons & Tooling with GitOps
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Automated deployment of critical Kubernetes add-ons (such as cert-manager, Istio, Goldilocks, and monitoring tools) with GitOps workflows.
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GitOps enables declarative, version-controlled, and audit-ready cluster states, allowing safe, reliable expansion or rollback of changes.
Step 3: Workload Onboarding
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Fairwinds; proven “paved road” onboarding process enables seamless migration of workloads to your EKS clusters, including enforcing RBAC, adoption of Kubernetes best practices, and automated security guardrails.
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Comprehensive support for production-grade workloads creates a paved-road process that makes moving workloads seamless.
Step 4: Expansion Bundles
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Options to expand your EKS footprint: including multi-cluster scaling, hybrid-cloud deployment, and advanced workload isolation.
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Enterprise-grade 24/7 support, automatic upgrades, patching, incident response, and managed common vulnerabilities and exclusions (CVE) handling—so your team can sleep through the night.
By partnering with Fairwinds for EKS managed services, organizations gain secure, repeatable EKS cluster deployments, accelerated onboarding, and long-term operational excellence. Our approach combines automation, industry best practices, a structured and proven onboarding process, and access to expert support—delivering speed, resilience, and peace of mind at every stage of your EKS journey.
