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When Should You Bring in a Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service Provider?

6 minute read | June 20, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, Kubernetes is a cornerstone technology for container orchestration. As organizations increasingly use Kubernetes, assessing

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14 minute read
| August 9, 2018

Kubernetes HPA Autoscaling with Custom and External Metrics - Using GKE and Stackdriver Metrics

Kubernetes deployment autoscaling is more exciting since HorizontalPodAutoscaler can scale on custom and external metrics instead of simply CPU and memory like before. Read More
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2 minute read
| August 8, 2018

Kubernetes is the Wrong Answer

Kubernetes is amazing, and the wave of the future except for the minor flaw that it's secretly terrible. Read More
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8 minute read
| August 8, 2018

How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cluster Upgrades

The Current Process Experienced Kubernetes cluster operators know that upgrades can be tricky. Tools like kops try to make this process better, but it's not yet a solved... Read More
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9 minute read
| June 28, 2018

Introducing RBAC Manager: Simplifying Kubernetes RBAC Management

At Fairwinds, we get to help some great companies with Kubernetes. Working with so many different organizations gives us a unique perspective on some of the challenges... Read More
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7 minute read
| June 21, 2018

IaaM - Infrastructure as a Motorcycle

No, IaaM is not a new offering of ours, it’s just going to be an extended metaphor for the purposes of this blog post. If someone figures out how to offer true IaaM….... Read More
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14 minute read
| June 5, 2018

Automated SSL certs for Kubernetes with letsencrypt and cert-manager

Did you ever dream of the day where there would be free TLS certs that were automatically created and renewed when a new service shows up? Well that day has arrived. If... Read More
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2 minute read
| April 5, 2018

How to Explain Kubernetes

Fairwinds sent two of us to SCaLE16x in Pasadena last month. Always an entertaining conference, it gave us a chance to have a variety of conversations with folks from all... Read More
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6 minute read
| March 19, 2018

GCP and AWS run your servers, now let Fairwinds handle your DevOps

There are a lot of companies out there who offer straight DevOps consulting. While we sometimes do one-off consulting projects, our focus at Fairwinds is a little different.... Read More
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4 minute read
| February 21, 2018

The Myth of Cloud Agnosticism

Kubernetes gets you further down the road to a cloud adoption strategy and being able to abstract away which public cloud vendor you choose than any technology in recent... Read More
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4 minute read
| January 30, 2018

Hurtling Down the Mountain of Infrastructure Best Practices

I asked Kendall how he felt about the rapid paradigm shifts of "modern best infrastructure practices" and his response was enlightening: "I'm on a ski slope." Read More
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4 minute read
| January 9, 2018

The Business Value of Kubernetes

Hi there! I'm Corey Quinn. You may know me from my newsletter Last Week in AWS. This may come as something of a surprise to some of you, but snarking about large cloud... Read More
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6 minute read
| November 27, 2017

What Kubernetes-as-a-Service Means for DevOps

Microsoft recently started providing Kubernetes-as-a-Service with AKS (Azure Container Service) much like Google does with GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine). In the near future,... Read More