Joe Pelletier

Fairwinds | Blog

FinOps, a portmanteau of Finance and DevOps, is a strategic framework created to help companies understand and manage their cloud costs, enabling greater efficiency in cloud service usage. Created by the FinOps Foundation, this financial management discipline brings together finance teams, engineering teams, operations staff, and other stakeholders together to ... Read More

The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) continue to update their Kubernetes hardening guidance, making recommendations to help organizations ensure they are hardening their Kubernetes clusters. This strong defense-in-depth approach helps organizations ensure that when an attacker compromises a cluster, the blast radius is ... Read More

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, along with public sector innovation and the application of emerging technologies in government and public sector organizations. Government technology alone is expected to reach a ... Read More

According to Gartner, cloud computing will become an essential component of maintaining business competitiveness by 2028. Indeed, in 2024 spending on public cloud services is projected to reach $679 billion. While cloud spend is complex and costs originate from a number of sources, it is undeniable that many organizations are ... Read More

Digital transformation and shifting to the cloud continue to be priorities for most organizations. According to Flexera’s 2023 Tech Spend Pulse, 75% of respondents indicated that cloud and cloud migrations are their top priority for the year ahead. Digital transformation is top of mind for 74% while 76% are most ... Read More

Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, enabling organizations to automate the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. As it does, DevOps, platform engineering, and development teams are looking more closely at the reliability, security, and cost efficiency of their workloads. Fairwinds created the Kubernetes benchmark report in 2022 by analyzing ... Read More

Kubernetes, the de facto standard for container orchestration, works best when applying a set of best practices that guide users towards reliable, cost efficient, and secure deployments. But in reality, it doesn't matter what the individual best practices are unless they are applied consistently across all teams, clusters, and Kubernetes ... Read More

We are excited to announce a major expansion of Fairwinds Insights that shifts container rightsizing functionality left. That means that developers can now get accurate and actionable resource recommendations at the time of pull request. This extended support makes it far easier to eliminate wasted Kubernetes compute before it reaches ... Read More

The widespread adoption of containerized applications has fundamentally changed how organizations develop, deploy, and manage their software infrastructure. Kubernetes is fundamental to this change, because it makes it possible to manage containerized workloads and services at scale. One of the cornerstones of its effective operation is Kubernetes governance, the policies ... Read More

FinOps X is an excellent event for those looking to discuss FinOps, improve on current practices, and explore the complex intersection of FinOps and Kubernetes. Kubernetes, with its capability for managing containerized applications and increasing dominance in the cloud-native world, and FinOps, with its role establishing financial responsibility in cloud ... Read More