Andy Suderman

Fairwinds | Blog

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. Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware in late 2023. To make the most of their acquisition, Broadcom is trying to squeeze money out of VMware ... Read More

In the rapidly evolving Kubernetes ecosystem, managing costs effectively is as critical as ensuring operational efficiency. To make the most of your shift to cloud native technologies in 2024, you need a roadmap to Kubernetes cost optimization, including how to right-size resources, centralize cost management, align teams, and eliminate wasted ... Read More

In the technology world, you may have heard that Kubernetes is great — but complicated. But what does that really mean? Since we've been practitioners in the space a while, helping other organizations build and deploy workloads in Kubernetes , we thought it might be helpful to share some of ... Read More

Kubernetes rightsizing is the process you use to ensure that your Kubernetes cluster has the right amount of resources to run your workloads efficiently. K8s rightsizing includes CPU, memory, and storage, and it’s important to get right. It can be expensive to run Kubernetes, so you need to make sure ... Read More

Migrating to Kubernetes is an important shift that offers organizations multiple benefits, such as improved scalability, agility, and resource utilization. However, like any major infrastructure change, this transition comes with complexities and risks. These include challenges related to security, resource management, compliance, operational consistency, and cost efficiency. So, what are ... Read More

Pluto is an open source utility that Fairwinds built to help users find deprecated Kubernetes API versions in their code repositories and Helm releases. As many Kubernetes users know, Kubernetes APIs are periodically reorganized or upgraded, and when this happens, the old API is considered obsolete and eventually removed. Pluto ... Read More

Just as Kubernetes itself has grown and evolved, so has Fairwinds. For the last five years, I've been involved in delivering Kubernetes infrastructure to our customers in a lot of different ways. Originally, we were focused primarily on services. When I first began my journey, the company was still called ... Read More

As we continue to deploy more applications and services to production in Kubernetes environments, our financial strategies around managing costs in Kubernetes must adapt accordingly. The FinOps Foundation offers a Maturity Model that describes a “Crawl, Walk, Run” approach to help organizations start small and mature these strategies: ... Read More

If you’ve covered all the basics of improving reliability for your Kubernetes apps and services, you might be wondering what else you can do to make it even better. Based on my experience at Fairwinds and as a site reliability engineer and IT administrator, I have some more advanced strategies ... Read More

In the world of modern application development, Kubernetes is the de facto container orchestration platform. It helps platform and development teams manage applications and services in distributed environments reliably and at scale. However, to make the most of Kubernetes capabilities, you must understand how to ensure that it will be ... Read More