Fairwinds Blog

What Is EKS Auto Mode and Will It Fully Manage My Kubernetes?

7 minute read | December 19, 2024

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon introduced EKS Auto Mode, marking a significant expansion in AWS management of Kubernetes clusters, moving beyond the cluster itself. While EKS Auto...

Managed Kubernetes

6 minute read

| December 19, 2024

Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service: A Force Multiplier for Your Tech Team

Kubernetes revolutionized container orchestration, but managing it is still a complex and time-consuming process. That’s why Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service offerings have... Read More

Featured

7 minute read

| December 19, 2024

What Is EKS Auto Mode and Will It Fully Manage My Kubernetes?

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon introduced EKS Auto Mode, marking a significant expansion in AWS management of Kubernetes clusters, moving beyond the cluster itself. While EKS Auto... Read More

Best Practices

8 minute read

| December 19, 2024

6 Kubernetes Cost Control Strategies You Need in Place for 2025

Organizations have increasingly undertaken cloud migration initiatives, moving from on-premises data centers to adopting containers and Kubernetes to change their... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

7 minute read

| December 16, 2024

When & Why Handing Over the Keys to Your Kubernetes Infrastructure Makes Sense

In the constantly maturing landscape of cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes reigns as the de facto standard for container orchestration. However, managing Kubernetes... Read More

Best Practices

16 minute read

| December 12, 2024

Guide to Understanding Your Kubernetes Liveness Probes Best Practices

Kubernetes, initially released in 2014, is an open source container orchestration system released under Apache License 2.0 and written in the programming language Go. Google... Read More

Best Practices

15 minute read

| December 3, 2024

What Do You Need To Know When Upgrading Kubernetes?

Keeping your Kubernetes infrastructure up-to-date is critical for security, compliance, stability, and performance, and it usually gives your cluster feature enhancements as... Read More

News

4 minute read

| November 26, 2024

AWS re:Invent 2024: Optimize Your Kubernetes with Fairwinds and NetApp

AWS re:Invent 2024 is next week, right after a late Thanksgiving when we’re kicking off the last few weeks of a busy year. For many organizations, now is the time to review... Read More

Best Practices

9 minute read

| November 20, 2024

It's Time To Seriously Talk About Disaster Recovery

It’s always a good time to reflect on something that should send shivers down the spine of any organization: disaster recovery. As climate-related disruptions (most recently,... Read More

Security

5 minute read

| November 20, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 16.1.11 - 16.2.40: Latest Updates to Vulnerability Mapping

Over the last few months, we’ve been working on making a number of meaningful updates to Fairwinds Insights. We’ve delivered some great new functionality that our Insights... Read More

8 minute read

| November 6, 2024

Top 5 Talks We’re Excited About at KubeCon 2024

I can’t believe that KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 is nearly here! I’m looking forward to meeting up with my friends and colleagues at this event dedicated to... Read More

Open Source

8 minute read

| October 11, 2024

Exploring Goldilocks: ‘Just Right’ Resource Management

Managing resource requests and limits in Kubernetes can be challenging, especially for teams that are new to container orchestration or scaling complex workloads. But without... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

7 minute read

| October 3, 2024

Top 6 Lessons Learned Managing Kubernetes for SMBs

In the fast-growing landscape of cloud computing, Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration platform that transformed how organizations deploy and manage applications... Read More