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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
6 minute read
| January 10, 2024

2024 Kubernetes Benchmark Report: The Latest Analysis of Kubernetes Workloads

Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, enabling organizations to automate the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. As it does, DevOps, platform... Read More
General
12 minute read
| December 5, 2023

8 More Questions about K8s Pitfalls and Successes Answered by Experts

In the technology world, you may have heard that Kubernetes is great — but complicated. But what does that really mean? Since we've been practitioners in the space a while,... Read More
General
4 minute read
| November 21, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 14.4-14.7: Reliability & Costs Updates

This month we are happy to share some exciting updates in Fairwinds Insights, including an update that improves the reliability of deleting action items, which helps to... Read More
General
6 minute read
| November 1, 2023

Join the Cloud Native Community at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America

If you’re running cloud-native apps and services, you probably already know that KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 is next week, November 6-9 in Chicago! Fairwinds... Read More
General
14 minute read
| October 26, 2023

Top 5 Tips for Better Kubernetes Self Service

When you've got a medium- to large-sized company, you need a platform to help your application teams ship code into production in a standardized way. This ensures that your... Read More
General
6 minute read
| October 19, 2023

A Platform Engineer's Guide to Successful Kubernetes Migration

Migrating to Kubernetes is an important shift that offers organizations multiple benefits, such as improved scalability, agility, and resource utilization. However, like any... Read More
General
4 minute read
| October 17, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 13.11-14.3: Action Items Report & More

This month we are happy to share some great new functionality in Fairwinds Insights, including an update making Action Items for rightsizing workloads available in CI/CD as... Read More
How to Kube
6 minute read
| October 12, 2023

Kubernetes Risk Management: What it Is & How to Get Started

As cloud-native technology becomes increasingly popular, Kubernetes stands as the de facto solution for container orchestration. However, Kubernetes' power comes with a wide... Read More
General
7 minute read
| October 4, 2023

Top 3 Tips Learned from Getting Fairwinds Insights into AWS Marketplace

The AWS Marketplace has grown extensively over the years, and it has a significant impact on how we buy solutions in the cloud. This is one of the many reasons that we’ve... Read More
General
5 minute read
| September 29, 2023

Your Questions on Polaris: Open Source Configuration Validation for Kubernetes

There are many ways to configure Kubernetes and the workloads that it runs, and unfortunately, many of them are dangerous. It's far too easy to introduce problems related to... Read More
General
8 minute read
| September 27, 2023

Introducing Action Items Progress Reporting

Platform engineers and developers alike already know that Kubernetes is complex, and it can be hard to track and document improvements in this ephemeral environment. To... Read More
General
11 minute read
| September 21, 2023

Building a Kubernetes Platform: How to Handle Cost Management & Reporting

Platforms, sometimes called internal developer platforms, are a unified infrastructure that allows all the development teams you have in your company, whether it be two or 20... Read More