Kubernetes Resource Library

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Guides and eBooks

Never Should You Ever in Kubernetes

Watch Kendall and Stevie as they discuss what Devs and Ops teams should not do in Kubernetes if they want to get the most out of the leading container ...

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Cloud & Kubernetes Failures & Successes in a Multi-everything World

Today’s use of multiple clouds across multiple teams and multiple ways of implementing Kubernetes introduces complexity. Out of this complexity will come ...

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How to Manage OPA in Kubernetes

In a survey of more than 150 organizations, 91% indicated they use OPA in some stage of OPA adoption from QA to production. For engineering leaders, how ...

Guide

Fairwinds Insights Data Sheet

Learn more about Fairwinds Insights Kubernetes security, policy and governance software.

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Kubernetes Cluster Headaches: More Visibility, Please

If you are managing a team of multiple Kubernetes users and multi-cluster environments, we bet you have a few headaches. More visibility into what’s ...

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Guide

How to Identify Security and Reliability Misconfigurations in Kubernetes

To realize the benefits of Kubernetes, correct and consistent configurations are essential. The reality is that Kubernetes misconfigurations can introduce ...

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The Hidden Cost of Open Source

When building an application, often the most important technical decisions come down to what to build yourself, and where to rely on third parties. Thanks ...

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Never Should You Ever in Kubernetes

Whether you are new to Kubernetes or have some experience under your belt, there are things you should simply never ever do in Kubernetes.

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Kubernetes Clinics

Kubernetes Clinics is a series of deep dive, technical presentations on Kubernetes technology. Presented by experts across the Kubernetes community, check ...

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The Hidden Cost of Open Source

When building an application, often the most important technical decisions come down to what to build yourself, and where to rely on third parties.

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Webinar

5 Kubernetes Reliability Tips and Tricks to Avoid Downtime

Reliability in a Kubernetes environment is synonymous with stability, streamlined development and operations, and a better user experience.

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eBook

Kubernetes Reliability

Ensuring the Health of your Kubernetes Clusters via Best Practices

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Webinar

Kubernetes Configuration – Auditing for Enterprise Best Practices Through Open Source Tooling

Kubernetes may be changing the cloud world, but your average ops team still hasn’t gotten comfortable with Kubernetes as a new paradigm.

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eBook

Kubernetes Policy Enforcement

Avoid Security Incidents, Downtime, and Inconsistencies Across Multiple Clusters and Users

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Webinar

When Kubernetes Goes Bad (And How Policy Enforcement Helps)

You are using Kubernetes, things are going well — until they are not. Security vulnerabilities are popping up, you are leaking money and the reliability ...

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Assessing Your Kubernetes Maturity

Kubernetes offers many benefits, but it is also complex to adopt. The Kubernetes Maturity Model has been developed to help teams, whether they are new to ...

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Three Kubernetes Problems and Three Solutions

Adopting cloud native application development comes hand in hand with adopting Kubernetes. The open source, container orchestration platform can greatly ...

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Kubernetes: What to Monitor and When

Monitoring has always been challenging, and the problem is magnified in a dynamic, ever-changing Kubernetes environment. Monitoring can struggle to keep ...

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eBook

Closing the Gap of Kubernetes Services

Steps to achieving a production-grade Kubernetes cluster in Amazon EKS, GKE or AKS

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The Journey from Heroku to Kubernetes in Five Steps

Watch Fairwinds President, Kendall Miller along with SREs Nate Baker and Ivan Fetch discuss the Journey from Heroku to Kubernetes in Five Steps

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eBook

Kubernetes: What Needs Monitoring and Why

This eBook is a guide for Kubernetes: What needs monitoring and why

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Webinar

5 Kubernetes Security Tools You Should Use

Join Fairwinds VP of Products, Joe Pelletier, and Director of Open Source, Robert Brennan, as they discuss five of the tools you should use to secure your ...

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CNCF Webinar - Kubernetes Best Practies

Watch Fairwinds’ President Kendall Miller, and Director of Open Source, Robert Brennan as they discuss the best practices for running and implementing ...

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Going Cloud Native in an Uncertain World

Join Micah Martin, Director of Engineering at Soul Cycle and Kendall Miller, President of Fairwinds as they discuss some real world examples of the ...

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eBook

5 Kubernetes Security Tools You Should Use

While there is no one way to handle security in Kubernetes, at a minimum there are five tools you must use to secure your clusters.

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Customer

Why Noonlight Chose Fairwinds ClusterOps

Read why Noonlight chose Fairwinds to implement its Kubernetes platform and provide on-going training, advisory and infrastructure improvements.

Video

Fairwinds Insights Webinar

Join the Fairwinds Team to learn how Fairwinds Insights improves your Kubernetes security, efficiency, and reliability.

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eBook

Fairwinds Insights White Paper

This eBook is a guide for helping you manage Kubernetes Configuration for Security, Efficiency and Reliability

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Customer

Boxed Reduces Security Risks and Costs with Fairwinds Insights

Boxed is using Fairwinds Insights to limit security vulnerability exposure, reduce cloud spend and improve sprint planning.

Podcast

Fairwinds - The Kubernetes Enablement Company - an Inside Look at the Company, Tech, Culture, & More

Fairwinds offers a Kubernetes enablement platform to help organizations adopt cloud-native infrastructure.

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eBook

Kubernetes Best Practices: Comprehensive White Paper

This white paper is composed of our expertise and insights from years of Kubernetes experience and hundreds of production grade cluster deployments.

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Webinar

How to Run Kubernetes Securely and Efficiently

Join Joe Pelletier, Fairwinds’ VP of Product and Robert Brennan, Fairwinds’ Fairwinds’ Director of Open Source as they discuss how to run Kubernetes ...

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Tutorial

How-to-Kube: KMS Secrets Backend

Andy demonstrates how to encrypt all of the secrets in your Kubernetes cluster using an Amazon provided KMS Key.

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Podcast

Remote Work Tips and Tricks for Your Engineering Team: Pre-recorded Panel Discussion

Engineering Leaders from Stripe, GitLab, Fairwinds, Cloud Foundry Foundation, and Zapier discuss strategies for keeping your engineering teams productive ...

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Kubernetes Expert Q&A: Pre-Recorded Session

Fairwinds engineers answer general and technical Kubernetes questions from the community.

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Best Practices for Running and Implementing Kubernetes

Join the Fairwinds team as we discuss the best practices for running and implementing Kubernetes.

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eBook

Container Orchestration Tools: Picking the right platform

There are several considerations when choosing container orchestration tools and a lot of variables.

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Video

The Journey from Heroku to Kubernetes in 5 Steps

Join the Fairwinds Team as we discuss how we migrate clients from Heroku to Kubernetes. We'll also cover the key considerations and pitfalls

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Guide

Your Guide to Container Orchestration

In this guide you'll learn about how Kubernetes makes containerized applications efficient, secure and scalable.

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Software

Fairwinds | Insights

Fairwinds Insights integrates best-of-breed Kubernetes auditing tools that improve cluster security, workload reliability, and engineering productivity.

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Open Source Software Guide for Day 2 Operations

Learn how Fairwinds Open Source Software can help your team with Kubernetes Day 2 Operations.

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Tutorial

How-to-Kube: Using Helm to Manage Applications

In this segment, Fairwinds SRE, Ivan Fetch, shows you how to use helm to manage applications in Kubernetes. He also demonstrates the Polaris Webhook.

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Guide

The Guide to Kubernetes Adoption

Understand the different phases of Kubernetes adoption, their importance, and the challenges involved.

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Tutorial

Kubernetes 101 Tutorial - Building a Kubernetes Cluster with GKE

This hands-on tutorial will provide you with the right tools and insights to get Kubernetes up and running on GKE.

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Video

5 Key Considerations When Choosing Kubernetes

Join the Fairwinds Team as they discuss key considerations that will help you use Kubernetes more effectively.

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Customer

Zonar-Systems

“Fairwinds has saved us time and money by providing expert cloud services guidance, consulting, and implementation. Every step of the way, they’ve trained ...

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Tutorial

How-to-Kube: Services

Site Reliability Engineer, Ivan Fetch, explains how to use services to expose pods and help applications communicate within Kubernetes.

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Tutorial

How-to-Kube: Pod Basics

In this segment, Fairwinds SRE, Kim Schlesinger, shows you how to create a pod using the nginx image, view the yaml, and delete the pod.

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Guide

The Definitive Guide to Migrating off Heroku

We’ll discuss the challenges companies face in moving off PaaS environments and describe what the right migration process and path look like.

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Podcast

Managed Kubernetes with Microsoft's Emily Freeman

Emily Freeman, from Microsoft, sits down with Kendall to talk Microsoft, Kubernetes, managed services, and the future of technology innovation in general.

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eBook

ClusterOps Solution Sheet

Fairwinds offers a complete, fully managed solution for Kubernetes in your cloud. See how ClusterOps can help your organization.

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Software

Fairwinds | Polaris Snapshot

Small configuration issues have led to production outages in the past — now they’re entirely preventable with Polaris.

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Customer

Framebridge

"We have had a seamless engagement with Fairwinds. They have helped us transform from five-year old technology to cutting edge performance gaining safety ...

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Customer

Sparkcentral

“Fairwinds’ Kubernetes expertise is deep and their engineers are responsive and great to work with. With their help and support we were able to make the ...

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Podcast

Kubernetes for Dummies

Fairwinds Engineers discuss why you soon won’t be able to live without this emerging technology.

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Customer

Fandor

“In the past, we did as much firefighting as product design and innovation. [Fairwinds] changed all that. Their responsiveness has been phenomenal. Our ...

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Customer

zyBooks

“Working with [Fairwinds] is a no-brainer for companies wanting to implement DevOps quickly and effectively. You get an entire team of pro Kubernetes ...

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Customer

icitizen

“[Fairwinds] has assisted us with filling the gaps in our team so we can shore up technology debt, has brought additional value in knowledge transfer and ...

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Customer

Park Assist

“Our time to delivery has sped up considerably as a result of our new Kubernetes clusters. Our infrastructure reinforces our ability to run our business ...

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Podcast

The New Stack Podcast: Establishing Best Practices for Adopting Kubernetes

In this edition of The New Stack Makers, Justin Mound and Eric Hole talk with Benjamin Ball about best practices emerging around Kubernetes

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Customer

Boxed-Wholesale

“[Fairwinds] has enabled us to reposition and strengthen our infrastructure. Now our infrastructure is more scalable, more reliable and more secure, and ...

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Other

“In 2012, two computer science professors launched zyBooks with the goal of helping STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) students...

Media

“We present exceptional, hand-picked films to a community of film lovers and makers connected by meaningful and entertaining cinematic experiences.”...

Other

“icitizen is an award-winning polling platform that connects people and decision-makers to make their community a better place through online...

Software

“Park Assist is a price sensitive manufacturer and provider of parking guidance system technology that competes with ultrasonic and other...

Retail

“Boxed was founded in 2013 by an experienced group of tech pioneers with a simple idea: make shopping for bulk...

Software

"Sparkcentral delivers amazing, fast, and meaningful digital customer service that delights and cultivates relationships with our user-friendly customer engagement platform."

Retail

"Framebridge makes it easy and affordable to custom frame the art, photos, and memorable moments you love. Every piece is hand built in the USA by our team of expert designers & craftspeople using the highest-quality materials."

Software

"Zonar is the leader in smart fleet management technology providing verified inspection reporting, GPS tracking and ELD-ready solutions for all fleet sizes."

Retail

"With Fairwinds Insights, we now have a configuration validation tool that runs automatically and presents aggregated data in one place."

Software

“With Fairwinds’ expertise, we now have a scalable, low latency and high availability Kubernetes infrastructure platform in place. The patterns provide insights into, and control of how, our applications are running to help inform our daily business decisions.”

Software

Flatfile chose Fairwinds Insights, policy-driven configuration validation software, to audit and baseline Kubernetes cluster configurations both on-prem and for its SaaS solution.

Gaming

Cerberus develops multiplayer gaming app built on Kubernetes infrastructure managed by Fairwinds experts

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