Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 2hNo, it didn't. File stuff was already going to S3, so we weren’t relying on local pod disk. 000
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 2hThanks for the heads-up. We’re already on 2.41.4, so we should have that Redis reconnect fix from 2.41.1. Still worth keeping in mind if we ever see manual runs hang while main looks fine. 110
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Rightsizing is not a one-time request-and-limit cleanup. Workloads, clusters, traffic patterns, and capacity change over time. Review actual resource use regularly, then revisit settings as conditions change. www.fairwinds.com/blog/kuberne... #Kubernetes #FinOpsfairwinds.comKubernetes Rightsizing: Requests, Limits, Cost, and PerformanceKubernetes rightsizing helps set CPU and memory requests and limits using workload data to improve capacity efficiency, cost visibility, and reliability. 210
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We moved a production n8n deployment on EKS from a community Helm chart to n8n’s official chart. The migration hinged on where workflow data, queued jobs, files, and secrets lived. Read this post to learn more about how we did it (+ get an example) www.fairwinds.com/blog/how-we-... #n8n #Kubernetesfairwinds.comHow We Deployed, Maintained, and Migrated Production n8n on EKSHow Fairwinds deployed, operated, and migrated production n8n on EKS with workers, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3, and external secrets. 310
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 03/09/2026For Noonlight, the availability bar is explicit: an AWS availability zone failure can't cause an outage, and a failed video or alarm creation through its APIs is unacceptable. Read how the team approached a kOps-to-EKS migration: www.fairwinds.com/noonlights-k... #Kubernetes #availability #productfairwinds.comNoonlight's Kubernetes Can't Go Down & Fairwinds Makes Sure It Doesn'tFairwinds manages Kubernetes, including the control plane, worker nodes, cluster networking, add-on upgrades, and monitoring in partnership with Noonlight 001
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 03/09/2026yeah, that's not awesome, is it? Debugging takes time. 100
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 03/09/2026exactly! it can really add up. 000
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We're heading to The AI Conference 2026 in San Francisco (Sept 29–Oct 1)! If you're building or scaling AI workloads on Kubernetes & want to talk GPU efficiency, policy enforcement, or cluster rightsizing, visit us in Booth #177 and/or grab time w/ @sudermanjr.bsky.social: calendly.com/andysudermancalendly.comAndy SudermanWelcome to my scheduling page. Please follow the instructions to add an event to my calendar. 011
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 28/08/2026What are the potential costs of getting Kubernetes operations wrong? Beyond cloud spend and incident duration, they include the engineering time spent on upgrades, monitoring, networking, and infrastructure issues that compete with product work. Read more: www.fairwinds.com/blog/cost-to... #k8s #SREfairwinds.comWhat Does It Cost to Get Kubernetes Operations Wrong?Kubernetes operations carry costs beyond infrastructure spend. Does your org have the ownership, expertise, & capacity to operate production K8s over time? 200
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Network Observability is now live in Fairwinds Insights. Click a node in Service Map, and Live Events filters to just that connection. Learn more about how to set it up and how it can help you determine the real cause of a timeout. www.fairwinds.com/blog/network... #Kubernetes #DevOpsfairwinds.comNetwork Observability: See Every Connection & DNS Query in the ClusterNetwork Observability in Fairwinds Insights turns cluster flow and DNS telemetry into a workload-aware service map and a drillable event stream. 000
Reposted by Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-ServiceLearnKube @learnkube.com · 13/08/2026This article shows how a probe-driven Go load balancer was tested against Kubernetes workloads and why benchmark discipline mattered more than the algorithm ➤ ku.bz/4RK0ZTM26 011
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Think of ADP as IDP growing up. Same platform, new users. The work is identity, permissions, quotas, and observability that still make sense when agents deploy and change things at scale. www.fairwinds.com/blog/agentic... #IDP #AIOps #CloudNativefairwinds.comAn Agentic Development Platform Is Just Your IDP Growing UpDon't rebuild your platform for AI. Learn how an Agentic Development Platform (ADP) is your internal developer platform with governance built for agents. 110
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Today we're running a live demo of an actual inference path, cluster to first prompt. We created it for platform engineers, DevOps leads, and SREs managing Kubernetes infrastructure across teams or environments. 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT. Register: hubs.li/Q04qKLHq0 #k8s #llmhubs.liWebinar: LLM Inference on Kubernetes, Without the HeadachesJoin Fairwinds for a practical webinar: Running LLM Inference On Kubernetes: From Cluster To First Prompt. 000
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Self‑service Kubernetes can turn into dozens of clusters that one architect ends up owning. At some point, “we can run Kubernetes” becomes “should we keep running all of it ourselves?” www.fairwinds.com/blog/why-kub... #Kubernetes #ManagedKaaS #PlatformEngineeringfairwinds.comWhy Do Kubernetes Experts Choose Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service?Managed Kubernetes‑as‑a‑Service helps teams that already know Kubernetes. too. What signals tell experts it’s time to offload the platform layer? 000
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Kubernetes isn't new, but AI still makes it feel that way. GPUs, bursty traffic, and stricter data boundaries turn it into a new operations discipline. www.fairwinds.com/blog/kuberne... #Kubernetes #AIfairwinds.comKubernetes Isn’t New, But AI Makes It Scary AgainStanding up a Kubernetes cluster is easy. Building a platform for AI workloads is not. See where teams struggle and how Fairwinds Managed Services helps. 010
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Inference traffic hits Kubernetes clusters differently, with new GPU needs, scaling signals, and failure modes. Fairwinds walks through it live, July 30 at 1pm ET. www.fairwinds.com/webinar-llm-...fairwinds.comWebinar: LLM Inference on Kubernetes, Without the HeadachesJoin Fairwinds for a practical webinar: Running LLM Inference On Kubernetes: From Cluster To First Prompt. 000
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Most orgs hire DevOps and SREs to shape how software runs on Kubernetes, then bury them in tickets and upgrades. What changes when you move infra management out of the critical path? www.fairwinds.com/blog/how-to-... #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #Kubernetesfairwinds.comHow To Spend More Time On Platform Development & Less On Dev SupportMost organizations hire DevOps and SRE teams to shape how software runs on Kubernetes, but support work still takes a significant share of their week. 140
Reposted by Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-ServiceCloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) @cncf.io · 15/07/2026Two out of three organizations run their generative AI workloads on Kubernetes. 66%, according to the most recent CNCF Annual Survey. Is that where you run yours? Let us know in the replies. www.cncf.io/reports/the-cncf-annual… #CloudNative #Kubernetes 112
Reposted by Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Servicefjhuerta.bsky.social @fjhuerta.bsky.social · 15/07/2026New Blog!! Learn how you can use GKE Autopilot clusters with GKE managed DRANET to make it super easy to provision networking resources for your AI accelerator both TPUs and GPUs. ( ComputeClass, ResouceClaim, TPUs, GPUs, Kubernetes, GKE) #ai #googlecloud #gke #kubernetes #dranet #tpu #gpsgoogle.smh.reAutopilot Clusters with GKE managed DRANET: GPUs and TPUs 011
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Self‑hosted AI on Kubernetes stalls less at YAML and more at environment variance: unique security tooling, network setups, GPU configs, and approval gates. Treating installs as one‑size‑fits‑all is what slows teams down. www.fairwinds.com/blog/why-sel... #kubernetes #ai #devopsfairwinds.comWhy Self-Hosted Kubernetes Deployment for AI Platforms Often StallsSelf-hosted Kubernetes deployment for AI platforms sounds manageable in a launch plan. Then the real installs start, and it turns into a different job. 000
Reposted by Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-ServiceGolangOSS @golangoss.bsky.social · 08/07/2026keda by @kedaorg (⭐️ 10353) KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. It provides event driven scale for any container running in Kubernetes #go 021
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Choosing Gateway API for your NGINX migration still means choosing an implementation. We evaluated Envoy, Cilium, and Traefik before landing on kgateway for a client's production cluster. Here is the architectural reason why: www.fairwinds.com/blog/migrate... #Kubernetes #CloudNative #GatewayAPIfairwinds.comHow We Migrated a Production Cluster from Ingress NGINX to Gateway APIA real-world guide to migrating a production Kubernetes cluster from Ingress NGINX to Gateway API using kgateway, featuring zero-downtime traffic cutovers. 010
Reposted by Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-ServiceElizabeth Fuentes L @elizabethfue12.bsky.social · 01/07/2026EKS now supports Kubernetes control plane rollbacks within 7 days of an upgrade. You get the actual previous version that ran in production, not an emulation. Upgrade to 1.35, hit an issue, roll back to 1.34. #Kubernetes #EKS ift.tt/qs8mwWk 041
Reposted by Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-ServiceLearnKube @learnkube.com · 01/07/2026git-change-operator is a Kubernetes operator that enables automated Git operations from within clusters through GitCommit and PullRequest custom resources ➜ ku.bz/Y1q8PFFvw 032
Reposted by Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service🤖 EKSBot @eksbot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Announcing Amazon EKS Rollback for safe and reliable management of cluster upgrades #eks #kubernetesaws.amazon.comAnnouncing Amazon EKS Rollback for safe and reliable management of cluster upgradesToday, we’re announcing Amazon EKS Version Rollback, a new capability that allows cluster administrators to safely roll back Kubernetes version upgrades on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. With this feature, you can now confidently roll out new version upgrades across your EKS fleet with an additional safety net. 051
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Per‑request AI pricing works for prototypes. Once AI is in core flows, cost pushes you toward capacity planning instead of just using the API. Where that breaks is not obvious. This post walks through what's involved. www.fairwinds.com/blog/how-do-... #kubernetes #FinOps #MLOps #AIfairwinds.comHow Do Self‑Hosted AI Models Change Your Kubernetes Decisions?Running your own AI models changes Kubernetes capacity, security, and ownership. See when self-hosting makes sense, what breaks, and who owns which pieces. 000
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 11/06/2026If your Kubernetes bill is growing faster than your traffic, the problem probably isn't Kubernetes. It's over‑provisioned nodes, idle Pods, and initial sizing that never got revisited. Read how you can cut waste without touching reliability. www.fairwinds.com/blog/how-do-... #k8s #FinOps #CloudCostsfairwinds.comHow Do I Reduce Kubernetes Costs Without Hurting Reliability?Learn why Kubernetes configurations drive up your cloud bill and get practical, data-driven steps to right-size workloads without risking reliability. 100
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 05/06/2026LLM infrastructure now sits squarely in the platform and SRE domain, with the same concerns about noisy neighbors, brownouts, and capacity planning, just mapped onto more expensive hardware. This article treats inference as a first-class production workload. www.fairwinds.com/blog/running... #k8sfairwinds.comRunning LLM Inference on Kubernetes: What It Actually TakesRunning LLM inference on Kubernetes requires more than a Deployment. Here's what your cluster needs, which tools to use, and when to use them. 110
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Many teams are turning Kubernetes into their AI infrastructure layer. Models, feature services, data pipelines, and GPU jobs all end up on the same clusters. That can work very well, but only if the platform is designed for it. What that looks like in practice: www.fairwinds.com/blog/ai-infr...fairwinds.comAI Infrastructure Runs On Kubernetes. Is Your Platform Ready?Scaling AI past localized experiments? Learn how to manage massive compute bursts, maximize inference uptime, and build reliable production data pipelines. 010
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 26/05/2026AWS Community Day | Midwest is June 24 in Indianapolis. Fairwinds’ Stevie Caldwell and Andy Suderman will be talking about running LLM inference on Kubernetes with EKS, from cluster concerns to first prompt. Details: www.midwestcommunityday.com #AWS #AWSCommunityDay #Kubernetes #LLMmidwestcommunityday.comAWS Community Day Midwest 2026 | IndianapolisAWS Community Day | Midwest is an annual one-day technical conference organized by AWS Usergroup community leaders. This year’s event will take place in Indianapolis, Indiana and features Corey Quinn ... 020
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Most teams don’t waste GPUs because “Kubernetes is wrong for AI.” They waste GPUs because every pod gets a whole card, jobs never get rightsized, and GPU nodes sit online all weekend doing nothing. Read the full guide: www.fairwinds.com/blog/how-do-... #Kubernetes #MLOps #GPUfairwinds.comHow Do I Run AI Workloads on Kubernetes Without Wasting GPUs?Learn when to run AI/ML on Kubernetes, how to schedule and right‑size GPU workloads, and how to prevent wasted GPU spend and unreliable AI deployments. 010
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Outdated Helm charts, mutable image tags, and inconsistent policies can quietly increase risk. This post walks through 7 questions teams ask to keep clusters healthy across web, data, and GenAI workloads without relying on heroics. Learn more: www.fairwinds.com/blog/7-kuber... #Kubernetesfairwinds.com7 Kubernetes Questions, Answered by Teams Running It in ProductionThese are seven questions we see again and again across Kubernetes environments, and they’re usually where the biggest wins come from. 010
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 05/05/2026What if your Kubernetes cluster had a soundtrack? In a recent KubeCon EU demo, Fairwinds SRE Stevie Caldwell wired a Go controller into SuperCollider so pod creates, deletes, crash loops, and scaling all have distinct audio cues. Write up here: www.fairwinds.com/blog/can-you... #Kubernetes #SREfairwinds.comCan You Hear Kubernetes Sing—Sonifying Cluster Events For Curious SREsOn-call is rarely quiet, but what would happen if your Kubernetes clusters added their own soundtrack to that mix? Would you notice when something was off? 000
Reposted by Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-ServiceGitRated @gitrated.bsky.social · 05/05/2026A new AI review! kubernetes-sigs/node-feature-discovery ⭐4.1/5.0 Node Feature Discovery (NFD) is a mature Kubernetes SIG project that detects node hardware/system capabilities and exposes them as Kubernetes node labels (and related APIs)... gitrated.com/kubernetes-sigs/node-f… 011
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Kubernetes pods stuck in CrashLoopBackOff? Our new step-by-step guide walks you through diagnosing logs, resources, and configs to get them running smoothly. Save yourself (and your cluster) the headache. Here's how: www.fairwinds.com/blog/how-do-... #kubernetes #crashloopbackoff #guidefairwinds.comHow Do I Fix CrashLoopBackOff in Kubernetes (Step‑by‑Step)?Learn what CrashLoopBackOff really means, the most common root causes, and a simple step‑by‑step checklist to fix and prevent it in production 000
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Free hands-on EKS workshop — May 13, 1–3:30pm EDT. Andy Suderman, Adam Zahorscak, and Eli Peveto on the fundamentals of running and scaling containerized production workloads on AWS. Online, limited capacity. Register now (space limited): aws-experience.com/emea/smb/e/1... #Kubernetes #EKSaws-experience.comEKS Fundamentals: How to Run and Scale Containerized Production WorkloadsMaster Amazon EKS in a hands-on workshop to build, scale, and manage production-ready applications with Kubernetes on AWS. The session covers configuring load balancers, node groups, and autoscaling f... 010
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 22/04/2026#Trivy's attackers poisoned 75 of 76 version tags. Pipelines using latest pulled malicious code without any indication something was wrong. Here's one way to shrink your exposure: stop using #latest tags. Every pipeline. Even the ones that seem unimportant. More: www.fairwinds.com/blog/supply-...fairwinds.comSupply Chain Attacks Are Getting Worse—How to Shrink Your ExposureSupply chain attacks don't break through your perimeter; they enter via tools you trust. Here's what contains the damage and what to do differently." 000
Reposted by Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-ServiceLinux news @linuxtoday.bsky.social · 22/04/2026AI Code Floods Open Source: How Kusari Inspector Secures CNCF Projects Against Supply Chain Attacks | TFiR tfir.io/kusari-inspector-free-cncf-… 021
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 14/04/2026As AI and GPU workloads scale, Kubernetes keeps proving its worth. It helps teams share resources, reduce idle GPUs, and keep performance predictable. Read why it’s becoming standard for AI: www.fairwinds.com/blog/kuberne... #AI #Kubernetes #GPUfairwinds.comKubernetes Is Eating Production: Why Usage Keeps Climbing Into 2026Kubernetes isn’t just up in 2026; it’s becoming the default foundation for production software and AI. How can you run it safely, efficiently, at scale? 020
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Thinking about Kubernetes but not sure it fits your org? Sometimes the smartest move is not running it yourself. Find out when Kubernetes is worth the complexity and when it isn’t. www.fairwinds.com/blog/kuberne... #Kubernetes #DevOps #CloudNativefairwinds.comKubernetes Strategy: When It’s a Fit and Who Should Run ItWhen is Kubernetes a good fit, when it’s overkill, what skills you need, and how to choose between running it yourself and using a managed service. 000
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Running containers on AWS and wondering when to do EKS properly? On May 13, EKS Fundamentals: How to Run and Scale Containerized Production Workloads offers a guided, hands‑on path through the basics of Amazon EKS for production. Details & registration: aws-experience.com/emea/smb/e/1... #AmazonEKSaws-experience.comEKS Fundamentals: How to Run and Scale Containerized Production WorkloadsMaster Amazon EKS in a hands-on workshop to build, scale, and manage production-ready applications with Kubernetes on AWS. The session covers configuring load balancers, node groups, and autoscaling f... 000
Reposted by Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-ServiceMegan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026So you're telling me Claude functions by screaming at itself "WRITE GOOD CODE NO BUGS SECURE VERY STABLE", mashes compile button, reads back the error and yells ONLY GOOD CODE NO BUGS at itself again while crying and copying random things from Stack Overflow until it compiles? it just like me fr fr 422184265
Reposted by Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-ServicePatrick Richter @nomadsgate.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Spot on. I've seen teams burn weeks debugging permission issues because "full access" meant nobody understood what they actually needed. Golden paths work. 011
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Giving every developer full Kubernetes access isn’t a self‑service strategy, it is a risk strategy. Use golden paths, clear guardrails, and zero‑ticket workflows for everyday tasks. www.fairwinds.com/blog/make-ku... #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineering #DevOpsfairwinds.comHow Do I Make Kubernetes Self‑Service Without Losing Control?Learn how to make Kubernetes self‑service for developers using templates, guardrails, and automation. Ship faster without security and cost sacrifices. 100
Reposted by Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-ServiceKubeFM @kube.fm · 02/04/2026This interview is brought to you by AWS — catch the talks and workshops from KubeCon Amsterdam 2026 on EKS, Karpenter, and GenAI on Kubernetes ku.bz/XM0_gPzX1 011
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Your roadmap, incident queue, and upgrade calendar are all competing for the same engineers. When Kubernetes upgrades win, product work loses. This article digs into that trade‑off: www.fairwinds.com/blog/kuberne... #Kubernetes #CloudNative #EngineeringLeadershipfairwinds.comKubernetes Upgrades Are Eating Engineering Time: How to Get It BackKubernetes upgrades drain weeks of senior engineering time. Learn how to quantify that cost and move upgrades, patching, and CVE work off your roadmap. 000
Reposted by Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Servicecloudnativeboy.bsky.social @cloudnativeboy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Q1 2026 CNCF Tech radar says 28% of orgs have a dedicated platform engineering team, most common model is multiple teams collaboratively handling platform capabilities (41%),35% are using a hybrid platform to integrate AI workloads rather than building separate AI stack: www.cncf.io/wp-content/u... 131
Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service @fairwindsops.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Your shared Kubernetes cluster experiment now runs business critical workloads, but ownership is still ad hoc. When does it become a real platform with a team, SLOs, and a roadmap? This post walks through the inflection points: www.fairwinds.com/blog/when-do... #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineeringfairwinds.comWhen Do We Actually Need a Kubernetes Platform Team?Not sure if you need a Kubernetes platform team? Learn the signs you’ve outgrown ad‑hoc clusters and when to build a team or look at managed Kubernetes. 010
Reposted by Fairwinds: Managed Kubernetes-as-a-ServiceNetObserv dev @netobserv.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Going to #kubecon next week in Amsterdam ? Interested in networking and observability? Don't miss this talk, "let your network speak!", where you'll learn about a cross-project collaboration between #OVN, OVN-Kubernetes and #netobserv kccnceu2026.sched.com/event/2CW23/...kccnceu2026.sched.comKubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026: Let Your Network Speak! - Nadia Pinaeva,...View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 022