Stevie Caldwell

Fairwinds | Blog

“The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” - Robert Burns, Scottish poet ... Read More

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 ... Read More

It’s always a good time to reflect on something that should send shivers down the spine of any organization: disaster recovery. As climate-related disruptions (most recently, the devastating Hurricanes Helene and Milton) become more frequent and severe, it’s past time to create up a solid disaster recovery strategy before the ... Read More

Managing resource requests and limits in Kubernetes can be challenging, especially for teams that are new to container orchestration or scaling complex workloads. But without proper configuration, your cluster can become unstable, experience resource contention (we call that the noisy neighbor effect), or drive up cloud costs unnecessarily. This is ... Read More

I’m excited to be back at KubeCrash this fall! Mark your calendars to join us on Wednesday, October 9th starting at 10 AM ET, as KubeCrash pulls together a day packed with actionable insights and practical takeaways on platform engineering in 2024 ... Read More

It’s hard to believe, but Kubernetes, our favorite container orchestration tool, turned ten this year! It feels like just yesterday when it was just an internal project at Google spinning up its first pod, and now it's at the heart of cloud native architecture. In the spirit of our many ... Read More

As an agile open source project, Kubernetes continues to evolve, as does the cloud computing landscape. Keeping up with the latest versions isn’t practical for many organizations, and there are good reasons to not keep up with the very latest version, particularly in the first few weeks after a release ... Read More

It’s Saturday night. You’re out to dinner with friends. Suddenly, a familiar tune emits from your pocket. Dread fills you as you fish your phone out of your pocket and unlock it. You tap the alert. Maybe it’s a lucky night and this is one alert you can just snooze ... Read More

We hear it all the time: Kubernetes is great, but it's complicated. But the consensus is that despite the complexity, Kubernetes is worth the effort. We recently had a panel discussion with Fairwinds and Buoyant, creators of Linkerd, a service mesh for Kubernetes. We discussed our real world experience with ... Read More

There are many ways to configure Kubernetes and the workloads that it runs, and unfortunately, many of them are dangerous. It's far too easy to introduce problems related to security, efficiency, or reliability, which is why Kubernetes practitioners have developed a set of Kubernetes best practices for configuring Kubernetes workloads ... Read More