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...

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

General

6 minute read

| May 17, 2017

Why Automated Infrastructure is Key and How it Saves Time

You need experienced people to support your infrastructure and solve complex problems. That said, it makes less sense to hire in-house experts to simply push the same buttons... Read More

General

6 minute read

| May 10, 2017

The Importance of Scaling Infrastructure the Right Way

Most businesses grow and shrink over time, and the business you have today isn’t the business you’ll have in six months, let alone in one, three or five years. Growth and... Read More

General

3 minute read

| May 8, 2017

Easily encrypted root volumes on AWS with Ansible

Whether or not root volumes on AWS need to be encrypted is a subject of debate. The encrypted AMI is all about protecting data at rest. Encryption at rest protects against... Read More

General

8 minute read

| May 1, 2017

3 Things I’ve Learned about Ansible Tags (The Hard Way)

Ansible tag's simple requirements make it very easy to get started. Overall, it works extremely well, but once you get a bit deeper some things might end up causing... Read More

General

8 minute read

| April 26, 2017

kops 102 - An Inside Look at Deploying Kubernetes on AWS the Fairwinds Way

In the last kops post,kops 101, I covered what kops is and why it’s the right choice for professional-grade Kubernetes installations. This week, I’ll cover the Fairwinds Way... Read More