Stay on kOps or Move to EKS? 6 Reasons Tech Leaders May Want to Switch

Stay on kOps or Move to EKS? 6 Reasons Tech Leaders May Want to Switch

| | How to Kube
Kubernetes recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, and it sure has come a long way. Despite its renowned complexity, K8s has since become the de facto standard for container orchestration. Quickly after Docker popularized containerization, more organizations began using containers to deploy applications. This meant that they needed a way to ... Read More
How Old Are Your Kubernetes Nodes?

How Old Are Your Kubernetes Nodes?

How old are your Kubernetes nodes? Most often, people don’t know the answer to this question, or if they do, they know that “most” of their nodes are a certain age, and some are newer. Knowing the age of your nodes is important, particularly in terms of maintaining a healthy ... Read More
Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Resolve Readiness Probe Action Items

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Resolve Readiness Probe Action Items

| | reliability
Readiness probes, like liveness probes, are a type of health check in Kubernetes. They determine whether a container is ready to accept traffic. If a container fails a readiness probe, it is removed from the set of pods used to satisfy requests for the service. This helps you ensure that ... Read More
Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Resolve Liveness Probe Action Items

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Resolve Liveness Probe Action Items

| | reliability
Liveness probes are an important type of health check in Kubernetes that determines whether a container is running and responsive. Kubernetes probes can help you identify whether a problem has already occurred or is currently occurring, which can help you ensure that your applications are reliable and responsive. There are ... Read More
Guide to Understanding Your Kubernetes Liveness Probes Best Practices

Guide to Understanding Your Kubernetes Liveness Probes Best Practices

| | 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 originally created it, but today it’s maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Kubernetes offers incredible flexibility, allowing organizations to deploy, scale, and manage ... Read More