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...

1 minute read

| March 26, 2020

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 and engaged. Their... Read More

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3 minute read

| March 25, 2020

Kubernetes 1.18.0 is out: Now What?

The latest Kubernetes version is now available. You can find a complete list of updates and bug fixes in the changelog. Major topics for the release include deprecations, ... Read More

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5 minute read

| March 23, 2020

Practical Tips from Engineering Leaders for Working From Home During Uncertain Times

As COVID-19 spreads across the globe and many organizations have asked non-essential employees to work from home, many of us are adjusting to the new norm of conducting... Read More

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3 minute read

| March 20, 2020

How to Kube: KMS Secrets

Security is a top concern for anyone on the web, but especially for those using Kubernetes. Without any pre-configured security settings on the platform, it's up to you to... Read More

1 minute read

| March 16, 2020

How-to-Kube: KMS Secrets Backend

In this segment, Fairwinds Lead R&D Engineer, Andy Suderman, demonstrates how to encrypt all of the secrets in your Kubernetes cluster using an Amazon provided KMS Key. Read More

4 minute read

| March 16, 2020

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

Description: With the current state of the COVID-19 coronavirus, many companies are deciding to move their workforce out of the office to fully remote. This can be a daunting... Read More

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5 minute read

| March 3, 2020

The Journey from Heroku to Kubernetes in 5 Steps

Using Heroku is like living in a fancy housing development with an HOA; it’s safe, predictable, structured — and comes at a premium. Read More

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4 minute read

| February 20, 2020

Kubernetes Strategies to Make Your Team More Efficient

Applications have numerous stakeholders — and sometimes those stakeholders come into conflict. Read More

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4 minute read

| February 5, 2020

How Cloud Managed Services for Kubernetes Enable Products to Succeed

A long time ago, before Kubernetes, I was managing an early-stage security product built entirely in the cloud. We used a SaaS business model to differentiate ourselves from... Read More

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4 minute read

| January 29, 2020

Optimizing Development Operations to Overcome Employee Turnover

When the DevOps Director leaves your company, they take their knowledge of your development operations infrastructure with them. If your DevOps infrastructure is not... Read More

4 minute read

| January 23, 2020

Fairwinds’ Astro Helps Manage Datadog Monitors in Kubernetes Deployments for Better Productivity and Cluster Performance

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fairwinds, the leader in fully managed cloud-native infrastructure solutions, has released its open source Astro project. Astro provides an... Read More

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7 minute read

| January 23, 2020

Introducing Astro: Manage Datadog Monitors in Kubernetes Deployments for Better Productivity and Cluster Performance

“Astro takes advantage of new Kubernetes-native patterns to help engineers declaratively manage Datadog monitors with the agility to match the ephemeral nature of these... Read More