Fairwinds Blog

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...

Managed Kubernetes

7 minute read

| August 20, 2024

What You Get with AKS, EKS, GKE vs. Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service

Managed Kubernetes is a service offered by cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (Azure), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that simplifies the... Read More

General

5 minute read

| August 9, 2024

Kubernetes Turns 10: A Ditty Dedicated to a Decade of Container Orchestration

It’s hard to believe, but Kubernetes, our favorite container orchestration tool, turned ten this year! It feels like just yesterday when it was just an internal project at... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

6 minute read

| August 7, 2024

How Fairwinds Delivers On EKS Internally & the AWS EKS Delivery Designation

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Delivery designation is a specialized program designed to validate AWS Partners that have experience, deep technical expertise, and... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

5 minute read

| August 1, 2024

How an EdTech Company Focused on Core Engineering & Deployed to EKS

For one education technology company, the journey to Kubernetes began out of necessity. Originally, the company relied on Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) as a... Read More

General

5 minute read

| July 24, 2024

Deploying AI/ML Workloads? GPU-Enabled Kubernetes Is the Right Fit

It seems like everyone is talking about artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) these days. As more organizations seek to incorporate AI and ML into their... Read More

General

10 minute read

| July 16, 2024

Who Owns Kubernetes? Dive Into the Teams and the Expertise They Bring

Kubernetes is more than just a technical tool — it's a critical element of modern IT infrastructure that supports containerized applications at scale. However, understanding... Read More

General

7 minute read

| July 9, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 15.6.1 - 16.1.10: Latest Updates

Over the last few months, we’ve been working on making a number of updates to Fairwinds Insights to make it simpler for users to manage groupings of Kubernetes resources and... Read More

9 minute read

| June 26, 2024

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

Kubernetes was released over ten years ago by Google as an open source project to improve container orchestration. While several cloud providers offer managed Kubernetes... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

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

11 minute read

| June 11, 2024

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

As more and more organizations shift to cloud-native environments, they have increasingly chosen to rely on Kubernetes for container orchestration since its introduction ten... 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

Security

5 minute read

| June 5, 2024

Kubernetes Basics Tutorial: Ensure Containers Do Not Run As Root

A container is a unit of software that brings code and all of its dependencies together, making it possible to run the application quickly and reliably in different computing... Read More