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Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service: A Force Multiplier for Your Tech Team

6 minute read | November 20, 2024

Kubernetes revolutionized container orchestration, but managing it is still a complex and time-consuming process. That’s why Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service offerings have...

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9 minute read

| June 28, 2018

Introducing RBAC Manager: Simplifying Kubernetes RBAC Management

At Fairwinds, we get to help some great companies with Kubernetes. Working with so many different organizations gives us a unique perspective on some of the challenges... Read More

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7 minute read

| June 21, 2018

IaaM - Infrastructure as a Motorcycle

No, IaaM is not a new offering of ours, it’s just going to be an extended metaphor for the purposes of this blog post. If someone figures out how to offer true IaaM….... Read More

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14 minute read

| June 5, 2018

Automated SSL certs for Kubernetes with letsencrypt and cert-manager

Did you ever dream of the day where there would be free TLS certs that were automatically created and renewed when a new service shows up? Well that day has arrived. If... Read More

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2 minute read

| April 5, 2018

How to Explain Kubernetes

Fairwinds sent two of us to SCaLE16x in Pasadena last month. Always an entertaining conference, it gave us a chance to have a variety of conversations with folks from all... Read More

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6 minute read

| March 19, 2018

GCP and AWS run your servers, now let Fairwinds handle your DevOps

There are a lot of companies out there who offer straight DevOps consulting. While we sometimes do one-off consulting projects, our focus at Fairwinds is a little different.... Read More

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4 minute read

| February 21, 2018

The Myth of Cloud Agnosticism

Kubernetes gets you further down the road to a cloud adoption strategy and being able to abstract away which public cloud vendor you choose than any technology in recent... Read More

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4 minute read

| January 30, 2018

Hurtling Down the Mountain of Infrastructure Best Practices

I asked Kendall how he felt about the rapid paradigm shifts of "modern best infrastructure practices" and his response was enlightening: "I'm on a ski slope." Read More

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4 minute read

| January 9, 2018

The Business Value of Kubernetes

Hi there! I'm Corey Quinn. You may know me from my newsletter Last Week in AWS. This may come as something of a surprise to some of you, but snarking about large cloud... Read More

1 minute read

| December 20, 2017

Tech Talk: The Future of kops, AWS, and Kubernetes

With the release of AWS EKS (managed Kubernetes service), kops maintainers, Chris Love and Eric Hole, discuss the implications for the Kubernetes ecosystem. Read More

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6 minute read

| November 27, 2017

What Kubernetes-as-a-Service Means for DevOps

Microsoft recently started providing Kubernetes-as-a-Service with AKS (Azure Container Service) much like Google does with GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine). In the near future,... Read More

8 minute read

| November 15, 2017

Update to Pentagon: a Framework for Building Kubernetes-based Infrastructure

Pentagon is an open source tool that dramatically reduces the number of manual steps required to create an infrastructure. It saves time, reduces errors and vastly improves... Read More

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7 minute read

| October 16, 2017

How We Deliver Big Even Though We’re Small... With DevOps-as-a-Service

It's not uncommon for me to hear a prospective client say something like this: "With only 15 people, how can you deliver a good, fast, and reliable DevOps-as-a-Service... Read More