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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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4 minute read

| April 19, 2017

Using rok8s Scripts to Automate Your Deployment Workflow

rok8s scriptsare Kubernetes scripts that help manage the deployment of applications to Kubernetes via a continuous integration environment. rok8s-scripts are Fairwinds’... Read More

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7 minute read

| April 3, 2017

Docker Is a Valuable DevOps Tool – One That’s Worth Using

Dockeris one of the most talked-about technologies of the past year, and adoption rates are increasing rapidly – for good reason. For some developers and operations... Read More

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9 minute read

| April 3, 2017

Docker Is Easier to Use Than You Think

In my last blog post, I focused on why Docker is beneficial to use and why it offers significant value in a broad range of use cases. In part II of this series, I’ll focus on... Read More

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6 minute read

| March 20, 2017

Another Look at Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Amazon Elasticsearch Serviceis a managed service intended to make it easy to deploy, operate and scale Elasticsearch clusters in the AWS Cloud. When we first looked at... Read More

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6 minute read

| March 1, 2017

kops 101 - The Kubernetes Deployment Game-Changer

Kubernetesis an open-source platform for deployment, management, and orchestration of containerized applications. It was originally developed by Google, which leveraged more... Read More

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7 minute read

| January 25, 2017

The Tenth Rule of Cloud-based Infrastructure

I thought I wanted to share some thoughts about the genesis of Fairwinds (f.k.a. ReactiveOps) – about what we do and why we do it. I’ll start with a little history. Read More

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4 minute read

| January 11, 2017

What Does High Availability Mean to You?

High availability is the expectation that a system will operate continuously for a significant span of time. For example, with 8,760 hours in a year, 99% availability... Read More