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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

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7 minute read

| October 16, 2017

How We Deliver Big Even Though We’re Small... With DevOps-as-a-Service

It's not uncommon for me to hear a prospective client say something like this: "With only 15 people, how can you deliver a good, fast, and reliable DevOps-as-a-Service... Read More

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3 minute read

| October 11, 2017

Docker Swarm is Dead. Long Live Kubernetes!

Sometime in the very near future, Docker is going to concede that Docker Swarm has lost and they'll have to yield the floor to Kubernetes. Either that, or they're going to... Read More

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7 minute read

| August 30, 2017

How to make your Developers Badass

In the last blog post, I examined why many companies are hesitant to embrace Kubernetes and how its complexity is actually beneficial for future growth. Here, I'll layout how... Read More

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5 minute read

| August 25, 2017

Is Kubernetes Overkill?

Is Kubernetes overkill? Read More

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4 minute read

| August 2, 2017

What Our Being a Google Cloud Platform Partner Means for Our Clients

Over a year after our founding, Fairwinds offered DevOps consulting exclusively on AWS. Then in March of 2016 we made a big pivot in the direction of Kubernetes. A few months... Read More

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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

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