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10 Questions to Help You Decide Whether to Hire an SRE or Managed KaaS

9 minute read | February 11, 2025

Deciding between managing Kubernetes in-house or partnering with a managed service provider can be a difficult choice for organizations seeking to optimize their cloud...

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General
13 minute read
| May 11, 2020

Getting Started with Kubernetes: Architecture Basics and Definitions

This series is intended for engineers new to Kubernetes and GKE. It provides a basic overview of Kubernetes, definitions and a quick start for building a Kubernetes cluster... Read More
General
4 minute read
| April 30, 2020

How to Identify if Kubernetes Pods are Running as Root

It's often easier to over-permission a Kubernetes deployment with root access to just get something working, but it’s not recommended. It leads to security issues and over... Read More
News
11 minute read
| April 28, 2020

Introducing Fairwinds Insights: A Kubernetes Management Tool

I have served as a Chief Technology Officer for application security and data security companies for over fifteen years, and during that time I have seen many of the... Read More
General
7 minute read
| April 21, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practices for Monitoring and Alerts

The truth is Kubernetes monitoring done right is a fantasy for most. It’s a problem magnified in a dynamic, ever-changing Kubernetes environment. And it is a serious problem. Read More
General
7 minute read
| April 17, 2020

A Q&A on Kubernetes Basics, Tooling and More

Recently I answered Kubernetes questions submitted by the community. Here is a quick summary of the questions and answers discussed around tooling, Kubernetes basics and... Read More
General
4 minute read
| April 14, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practices for Reliability

Many adopters of Kubernetes attempt to capitalize on 100% of the existing infrastructure automation technology that predates cloud native applications and Kubernetes, such as... Read More
General
4 minute read
| April 10, 2020

Kubernetes Solved: Easily Find Deprecated API Versions with Pluto

Pluto is an open source utility to help users easily find deprecated Kubernetes API versions in their Infrastructure-as-Code repositories and Helm releases. The Kubernetes... Read More
Featured
3 minute read
| April 9, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practice for Efficient Resource Utilization

We all know that we need to manage Kubernetes efficiently. It’s similar to how we all know we need to drive our cars more efficiently. But we cannot simply do this just by... Read More
General
5 minute read
| April 3, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practices for Security

Kubernetes is the dominant container orchestration solution. The genius of Kubernetes is its ability to provide you with a framework to run distributed systems resiliently.... Read More
General
2 minute read
| March 31, 2020

COVID-19 Hackathon: Pitch Your Pandemic App Ideas

We are living in unprecedented times. Our lives have been turned upside down as we all attempt to balance our unique set of circumstances. That’s why our inspiring team at... Read More
General
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
General
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