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5 minute read

| July 12, 2019

Zero to SRE: How To Invest In Junior Engineers

It’s not easy to find, recruit and hire senior engineers in the software space. And it’s an expensive undertaking if you’re successful; senior engineers command high... Read More

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5 minute read

| July 11, 2019

ReactiveOps Relaunches as Fairwinds

This article was written by Brian Dowling and originally appeared in Xconomy. Read More

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7 minute read

| May 7, 2019

Upgrading to Istio 1.

Istio recently released version 1.1.1 of their popular service mesh with several changes and improvements. Without a doubt you should likely upgrade from earlier versions to... Read More

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7 minute read

| April 17, 2019

Help Improve Your Kubectl Command With Plugins

You can add features to the kubectl Kubernetes command-line tool using plugins. Create kubectl sub-commands to add custom functionality while maintaining a cohesive... Read More

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18 minute read

| March 11, 2019

Upgrade cert-manager - It’s Worth It!

The cert-manager project Automatically provisions and renews through TLS certificate management in Kubernetes. It supports using your own certificate authority, self signed... Read More

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6 minute read

| March 6, 2019

Best Practices for Implementing CI/CD Pipelines in Kubernetes

At Fairwinds, we take an opinionated approach on how to implement CI/CD pipelines in Kubernetes and Docker. In the following sections, I will outline the guiding principles... Read More

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13 minute read

| January 29, 2019

Security Basics for your first Kubernetes Cluster

So you built a cluster. Maybe you have some apps deployed. You’re sold on this whole Kubernetes thing. Now what do you do? Read More

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19 minute read

| November 20, 2018

Making Kubernetes Fully Operational

A Kubernetes cluster is a powerful tool. It gives you the power to deploy your containerized workloads, automatically scale them, and schedule them across multiple machines.... Read More

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10 minute read

| October 25, 2018

How to Adopt Istio into your Kubernetes Clusters

Istio gets a lot of buzz these days. The service mesh platform recently hit a 1.0 ready-for-production milestone. Google has been teasing a managed Istio option on Google... Read More

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3 minute read

| October 10, 2018

Why My IP Is Not My Password

My IP Is Not My Password In the last several years, I’ve seen an alarming number of requests to implement a system where we allow access based on the user’s IP address. In my... Read More

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8 minute read

| October 9, 2018

How we manage Kubernetes RBAC and IAM Roles on GKE

Google’s managed Kubernetes service has always been one of my favorite ways to run a Kubernetes cluster. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) provides some incredible functionality... Read More

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3 minute read

| September 6, 2018

rbac-lookup: Reverse Lookup for Kubernetes Authorization

If you’ve been working with Kubernetes authorization for any period of time, you’ve likely wanted to know the answer to a very simple question. “How much access does this... Read More

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