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Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility

6 minute read | April 17, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced extended support prices for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), prompting some businesses to reevaluate how they manage their cloud...

Featured

6 minute read

| April 17, 2024

Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced extended support prices for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), prompting some businesses to reevaluate how they manage their cloud... Read More

Best Practices

16 minute read

| April 5, 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

12 minute read

| April 5, 2024

5 Ways You Can Diagnose & Prevent OOMKilled Errors in Kubernetes

Learn some of the steps you can take to diagnose an OOMKilled (Out of Memory) error in a Linux-based system. Out of memory errors in Kubernetes usually occur when a container... Read More

Best Practices

8 minute read

| April 4, 2024

How to Create, View, and Destroy a Pod in Kubernetes

In our How-to-Kube series, we began by covering the pod basics. Similar to service, volume, and namespace, a pod is a basic Kubernetes object. A pod is a set of one or more... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

4 minute read

| April 2, 2024

How to Escape the 3 AM Page as a Kubernetes Site Reliability Engineer

It’s Saturday night. You’re out to dinner with friends. Suddenly, a familiar tune emits from your pocket. Dread fills you as you fish your phone out of your pocket and unlock... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

5 minute read

| March 25, 2024

Feeling Stuck in Pivotal Cloud Foundry? We’ll Make Your Move to Kubernetes Easy

Is your organization feeling stuck using Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), now known as Tanzu Application Service (TAS or sometimes VMware Cloud Foundation)? You're not alone.... Read More

General

4 minute read

| March 19, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 15.1.1-15.5.0 App Groups Auto-Updates

This month, we’ve been working hard to make improvements to Fairwinds Insights that will make it easier to use, so you can make informed decisions about your Kubernetes... Read More

Security

5 minute read

| March 14, 2024

Look Good & Gain Peace of Mind with Fairwinds' Managed Kubernetes

Identifying and remediating Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) as soon as possible is important for businesses, particularly when a new vulnerability is disclosed.... Read More

General

5 minute read

| March 6, 2024

Embracing Managed Kubernetes Is a Strategic Move for Your Business

In the continuously evolving world of software engineering and infrastructure management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams have become increasingly important. These... Read More

General

5 minute read

| February 27, 2024

K8s Benchmark Report: Are Organizations Meeting NSA Hardening Checks?

The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) continue to update their Kubernetes hardening guidance, making... Read More

General

3 minute read

| February 20, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 15.0-15.2: Aggregated Action Items

This month, we’re pleased to share new updates in Fairwinds Insights, including aggregated Action Items and admission request resolutions. Let’s explore these new... Read More

Security

8 minute read

| February 13, 2024

Kubernetes Benchmark Report: Are Kubernetes Workloads More Secure in 2024?

Moving to the cloud remains a critical business initiative for most organizations. Indeed, the World Economic Forum once again focused on digital transformation this year,... Read More