Fairwinds Blog

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...

General

3 minute read

| October 11, 2017

Docker Swarm is Dead. Long Live Kubernetes!

Sometime in the very near future, Docker is going to concede that Docker Swarm has lost and they'll have to yield the floor to Kubernetes. Either that, or they're going to... Read More

1 minute read

| September 22, 2017

Kubernetes 101 Workshop: Deploying a Simple Web App onto Kubernetes

In this workshop, Sarah will teach you how to stand up clusters, deploy a simple web application, and scale your app properly. Read More

General

7 minute read

| August 30, 2017

How to make your Developers Badass

In the last blog post, I examined why many companies are hesitant to embrace Kubernetes and how its complexity is actually beneficial for future growth. Here, I'll layout how... Read More

General

5 minute read

| August 25, 2017

Is Kubernetes Overkill?

Is Kubernetes overkill? Read More

General

4 minute read

| August 2, 2017

What Our Being a Google Cloud Platform Partner Means for Our Clients

Over a year after our founding, Fairwinds offered DevOps consulting exclusively on AWS. Then in March of 2016 we made a big pivot in the direction of Kubernetes. A few months... Read More

Best Practices

3 minute read

| July 19, 2017

Why we offer Kubernetes Consulting

At Fairwinds, our primary focus is to offerDevOps-as-a-Service (DaaS)because we have a scalable model that has proven valuable to the market. In addition to our monthly... Read More

General

5 minute read

| July 14, 2017

The Benefits of Running Kubernetes on Google Container Engine

All signs are pointing to Kubernetes becoming the defacto standard for container orchestration platforms. Let’s say you’ve done your research, and you know you want to use... Read More

General

5 minute read

| June 30, 2017

Kubernetes emptyDir is not the same as Docker's volumes-from

My current client has a Rails application that is tightly coupled to Nginx. This sort of coupling is fairly common and used to avoid static files being served by the Rails... Read More

4 minute read

| June 1, 2017

Introducing Pentagon

Background In 2015, when I founded Fairwinds (f.k.a ReactiveOps), we started with a simple idea: to bring great infrastructure to companies that couldn’t - or didn’t want to... Read More

General

7 minute read

| May 31, 2017

How to Run Logentries in a Kubernetes Environment

Logs are great. They are easy when you’re running on one or two boxes. However, they get harder when you’re running in a modest distributed environment and even more so if... Read More

1 minute read

| May 23, 2017

The New Stack: Establishing Best Practices for Adopting Kubernetes

In this edition of The New Stack Makers, Justin Mound andEric Hole talk with Benjamin Ball about best practices that Fairwinds (f.k.a. ReactiveOps) perceives as emerging... Read More

General

3 minute read

| May 22, 2017

Monitored Infrastructure is Not Fun... But it's Critical

Scaling and automation only work when detailed monitoring is put in place. Monitoring is critical, but a lot of companies don’t make time for it. Monitoring can be... Read More