Fairwinds Blog

Kubernetes in 2025: Are You Ready For These Top 5 Trends & Predictions?

9 minute read | January 3, 2025

Now that Kubernetes has turned 10, it has firmly established itself as a cornerstone of cloud-native deployment. That means it’s finally fair to request ten years of...

Open Source

5 minute read

| September 16, 2020

Demo: Monitoring Kubernetes Workloads with Astro

I am a Site Reliability Engineer at Fairwinds where we provide both Software and Service offerings that help our clients succeed in the world of Kubernetes. In our highest... Read More

How to Kube

4 minute read

| September 10, 2020

OPA Alternative: A Stepped Approach to Kubernetes Policy Enforcement

Recently we’ve had a number of conversations around Open Policy Agent (OPA) where Kubernetes users are intrigued and want to use it, but are attempting to figure out the best... Read More

How to Kube

14 minute read

| September 9, 2020

Hands-On With Agones and Google Cloud Game Servers

I recently had the pleasure of exploring Agones and Google Cloud Game Servers (GCGS), and I wanted to share my experience. Read More

How to Kube

6 minute read

| September 2, 2020

Understanding Kubernetes Controllers: A Key Concept for Managing Your Applications

If you’re new to Kubernetes, one of the first concepts you’ll want to familiarize yourself with is the Controller. Most Kubernetes users do not create Pods directly; instead... Read More

How to Kube

7 minute read

| August 31, 2020

Intro to Kube ingress: Set up nginx Ingress in Kubernetes Bare Metal

An ingress is a resource that enables traffic to come into your Kubernetes cluster from the outside. This is usually to HTTP or HTTPS service. There are ways to map non-HTTP... Read More

4 minute read

| August 27, 2020

The Fairwinds Commitment to Black Lives - An Update

The three months since George Floyd’s murder have proven that valuing and protecting black lives remains as necessary as ever. This week, we were reminded of the stark racial... 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

1 minute read

| August 26, 2020

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. Read More

Featured

10 minute read

| August 20, 2020

Kubernetes Clinic Spotlight: Brad Geesaman, Shining A Light on Kubernetes Security

Brad Geesaman has been at the intersection of IT security and infrastructure for nearly two decades. An expert equally comfortable talking at KubeCon or BlackHat, Brad... Read More

Open Source

9 minute read

| August 18, 2020

Gemini: Automate Backups of PersistentVolumes in Kubernetes

Persistent Storage is Hard Read More

General

2 minute read

| August 11, 2020

Kubernetes Configuration Validation in Datadog Marketplace

Today Datadog has announced its new Marketplace, a platform for third-party application development that provides customers with access to a wide range of tools,... Read More

General

2 minute read

| August 6, 2020

Is Your Kubernetes Infrastructure Production-Grade?

Kubernetes is a powerful open source platform for managing containers that enables declarative configuration and automation. It can be fully customizable to be the PaaS your... Read More