While EKS Auto Mode is a valuable addition to the Kubernetes ecosystem, it's essential to evaluate your specific needs and consider all available options. For many organizations, a fully managed Kubernetes service provider that goes beyond basic automation and provides expert support and customization is still the optimal choice. This post walks through what you need to know: https://bit.ly/3DmYwfv #kubernetes #kubernetesmanagement #kuberneteshelp #EKSAutoMode #AWSmanagement #Kubernetesclusters
Fairwinds
IT Services and IT Consulting
Boston, Massachusetts 2,274 followers
Mission-Critical Kubernetes Infrastructure
About us
Fairwinds offers a Kubernetes enablement platform to help organizations adopt cloud-native infrastructure. Solutions to accelerate the Kubernetes journey include a fully managed service to add capacity to your existing DevOps team; an advisory service for those who need to develop their expertise; and software offerings for those looking to improve security and reduce costs for their cloud-native infrastructure. The infrastructure, software, and services we provide enable organizations to focus on bringing their applications and services to market faster. Fairwinds’s differentiators include: * Trusted infrastructure services & software - Having worked with Kubernetes since its inception in 2015, we have learned how to make it secure, reliable and scalable. We have created open source technologies and software to simplify and streamline infrastructure implementation and ongoing management of hundreds of production-grade clusters including those for Boxed Wholesale and Fandor. * Enablement of your team - Here at Fairwinds we pride ourselves on “teaching you to fish” by sharing our expertise and best practices developed over the past 5 years. We offer human-to-human support and integrate with your team using Slack instead of slower, more process-heavy ticketing systems. According to Arun Jacob, Senior Vice President of Software at Zonar Systems, “Every step of the way, they’ve trained our team and increased our knowledge base, allowing us to focus on building services instead of maintaining infrastructure. Their support has been invaluable.” * Open source expertise - Fairwinds has developed six leading open source tools that span deployment, operations and optimization of cloud-native infrastructure. These tools have been embraced by the community, with Fairwinds Polaris having received over a thousand GitHub stars. We create and curate great open source to deliver a proven, production-grade stack in your cloud environment.
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https://www.fairwinds.com
External link for Fairwinds
- Industry
- IT Services and IT Consulting
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Type
- Privately Held
- Specialties
- Kubernetes, Managed Services, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Infrastructure, Docker, Containers, CI/CD, Terraform, Training, Advisory, Infrastructure as code, Amazon Web Services, GCP, Azure, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineer, SRE, Software, Open Source, Cloud-native, Software Reliability Engineer, and IT Infrastructure
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Fairwinds Insights
DevOps Software
Fairwinds Insights software simplifies Kubernetes chaos and enables developer self-service to achieve production-readiness faster. Fairwinds Insights is a complete platform that offers Kubernetes cost optimization advice, security alerting, guardrails and compliance findings. It comes with more than 100 built-in policies, as well as a library of OPA templates to identify Kubernetes configuration violations. Leverage policy as code to create, automate, monitor and enforce your policies. Integrated throughout your CI/CD pipeline, prevent risk by catching security and configuration issues in your containers, as well as in your deployment code. Continuously monitor multiple clusters across multiple teams against security configurations to reduce risk and ensure best practices are followed. Pinpoint your container and Kubernetes risks, prioritize action and gain remediation guidance and status tracking.
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Updates
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As we get started with 2025, we expect Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem to continue to grow and evolve. Drawing on our own experience and DZone’s Kubernetes in the Enterprise report, here are five things we expect to focus on in the Kubernetes ecosystem and five predictions for the year ahead. Let us know what you think and expect to emerge this year! https://bit.ly/40h3PWS #kubernetes #trends #predictions #enterprise #containers #ai #ml
Kubernetes in 2025: Are You Ready For These Top 5 Trends & Predictions
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#ICYMI -- Keeping up to date with critical vulnerabilities related to Kubernetes can be challenging for a variety of reasons. The biggest one may be related to Kubernetes itself; it’s a complex and rapidly evolving platform, with regular updates and new features being introduced regularly (not to mention updates to APIs and add-ons). Learn about the top 5 K8s vulnerabilities of 2024 and how a Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service provider minimizes your risk: https://bit.ly/41HxSZ4 #Kubernetes #k8s #vulnerabilities #CVEs #managedkubernetesasaservice
The Top 5 Kubernetes CVEs of 2024: Have You Patched Them Yet?
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#ICYMI - Keeping your Kubernetes infrastructure up-to-date is critical for security, compliance, stability, and performance, and it usually gives your cluster feature enhancements as well. Read this practical guide to learn the key steps you need to take to ensure your upgrade is successful: https://bit.ly/49kfvLn #kubernetes #k8s #kubernetesupdates #practicalguide #SREs #sitereliabilityengineers #security #compliance #stability #performance #K8supgrades
What Do You Need To Know When Upgrading Kubernetes?
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There are many benefits to handing over the keys to your K8s infrastructure to a managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service solution rather than managing it in-house, but many teams aren’t sure when it makes sense to take one approach over another. Let’s walk through the pros and cons of each approach. https://bit.ly/4foFfaO #kubernetes #infrastructure #k8s #kubernetesquestions #kuberneteshelp #inhouse
When & Why to Hand Over the Keys to Your Kubernetes Infrastructure
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Keeping your Kubernetes infrastructure up-to-date is critical for security, compliance, stability, and performance, and it usually gives your cluster feature enhancements as well. Read this practical guide to learn the key steps you need to take to ensure your upgrade is successful: https://bit.ly/49oKpCC #kubernetes #k8s #kubernetesupdates #practicalguide #SREs #sitereliabilityengineers #security #compliance #stability #performance #K8supgrades
What Do You Need To Know When Upgrading Kubernetes?
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#ICYMI - At AWS re:Invent, Amazon introduced EKS Auto Mode, marking a significant expansion in AWS management of Kubernetes clusters. Still, it's important for you to fully understand its capabilities and limitations. This post walks through what you need to know: https://bit.ly/3VMafKU #kubernetes #kubernetesmanagement #kuberneteshelp #EKSAutoMode #AWSmanagement #Kubernetesclusters
What Is EKS Auto Mode and Will It Fully Manage My Kubernetes?
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#ICYMI — Managing Kubernetes infrastructure can be a complex and resource-intensive task, particularly if your organization doesn’t have a bench of Kubernetes experts in-house (and few do). When & why does it make sense to hand over the keys to your K8s infrastructure? Let’s walk through the pros and cons of each approach: https://bit.ly/4fqi6ou #kubernetes #infrastructure #k8s #kubernetesquestions #kuberneteshelp #inhouse
When & Why to Hand Over the Keys to Your Kubernetes Infrastructure
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#ICYMI - Kubernetes adoption has reshaped a leading fast-food brand, making their operations as quick as their service. As the organization sought to move away from legacy applications and improve automation, it discovered a critical need for streamlined Kubernetes management and expertise. Learn how Fairwinds helped them succeed in this case study: https://bit.ly/4dK5ic0 #kubernetes #operationalefficiency #platform #DigitalTransformation
Case Study - Transforming Kubernetes Deployment for Fast Food Company
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Keeping up to date with critical vulnerabilities related to Kubernetes can be challenging for a variety of reasons. The biggest one may be related to Kubernetes itself; it’s a complex and rapidly evolving platform, with regular updates and new features being introduced regularly (not to mention updates to APIs and add-ons). Learn about the top 5 K8s vulnerabilities of 2024 and how a Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service provider minimizes your risk: https://bit.ly/3P7fSzT #Kubernetes #k8s #vulnerabilities #CVEs #managedkubernetesasaservice
The Top 5 Kubernetes CVEs of 2024: Have You Patched Them Yet?
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