Your AWS account is full of powerful services. Your teams are dealing with tickets, incidents, and hiring constraints.
This post explores how MSPs help close that gap between what the cloud can do and what you can reliably operate.
🔗 www.fairwinds.com/blog/msps-br...
#AWS #MSP #CloudOps #Kubernetes
Fairwinds Insights integrations with Kyverno keep getting better. Recent releases add richer policy type support, unmanaged policy visibility, better admissions data, and clearer labels.
Read our rollup of the latest updates:
www.fairwinds.com/blog/fairwin...
#Kubernetes #Kyverno
🚨Iranian Drone Strikes Cause Significant Damage to AWS Data Centers in UAE and Bahrain Iranian drone strikes damaged two Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and a third facility in Bahrain, disrupting cloud services across the Middle East, Reuters reports. The facilities support core infrastructure for governments, banks, media outlets, and corporations across the region. AWS said the UAE sites were “directly” hit, while its Bahrain center sustained damage from a nearby strike, causing power outages and service interruptions. “These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage,” AWS said, warning recovery efforts may be prolonged due to the extent of damage.
🚨Iranian Drone Strikes Cause Significant Damage to AWS Data Centers in UAE and Bahrain
Iranian drone strikes damaged two Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and a third facility in Bahrain, disrupting cloud services across the Middle East, Reuters reports. The facilities support core...
If your Amazon EKS clusters “mostly work,” are a couple versions behind, and everyone’s a little afraid to touch them… this is for you.
New post on turning fragile EKS setups into production‑ready infrastructure you can trust:
www.fairwinds.com/blog/move-fr...
#amazoneks #infrastructuredesign
Want to contribute to Kubernetes but not sure where to start?
Join the New Contributor Orientation on Tuesday, 17 Feb (two time zones) to learn how the project works, ways to contribute (code, docs & more), and connect with the community.
Check it out and add it to your calendar: k8s.dev/calendar
The Kubernetes Dashboard was officially retired and archived on January 21, 2026.
To continue providing a modern, extensible web UI for the community, the project now recommends transitioning to Headlamp.
Check out the project and docs here:
🔗 headlamp.dev
Salesforce is shifting Heroku into a more sustaining, maintenance‑focused posture and has stopped selling new Enterprise contracts. If it’s still hosting core workloads, this is the moment to ask what a 2026 migration plan looks like.
www.fairwinds.com/blog/time-to...
#Heroku #Kubernetes #Migration
The ingress-nginx EOL in 2026 is more than a version bump; it requires a redesign for how traffic enters your EKS clusters.
Join @sudermanjr.bsky.social for “AWS EKS And The Great Ingress-Nginx Deprecation Of 2026”
March 12: 6:00 to 8:00 PM EDT in Virginia!
www.fairwinds.com/march-12-202...
Kubernetes folks: ingress-nginx is reaching EOL in March 2026.
We’re joining #AWS Cleveland User Group to present:
"AWS EKS And The Great Ingress-Nginx Deprecation Of 2026"
w/ CTO @sudermanjr.bsky.social
March 5: 1:00 to 2:00 PM EST
Learn more: www.fairwinds.com/march-5-2026...
#ingress #nginx
Intent based APIs are useful for all forms of automation, not just AI agents. Tools like Kubernetes leveraged intent based APIs for infrastructure 10 years ago. We called them declarative APIs, which essentially wrap one or more APIs to provide an abstraction.
Fairwinds × AWS
We’ve signed a new Strategic Collaboration Agreement to deliver fully managed Kubernetes platforms on Amazon EKS for enterprises that need secure, reliable, cost‑optimized cloud‑native infrastructure.
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
#AWS #SCA #ManagedKubernetesasaService #EKS
+1 It’s not just kubernetes nginx ingress: it’s the whole ecosystem. Open source program offices have been absolutely gutted and open source funding has dried up.
It’s a travesty that it takes a monumental project dying on the vine for people to wake up. The OSS maintenance tsunami is coming.
Ingress NGINX: Statement from the Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees-
the moltbot saga is wild: "personal AI assistant" leaked 181 secrets from public repos, 65 STILL VALID - including full k8s cluster access for a fintech company and a healthcare company's entire notion docs
renamed clawdbot → moltbot → openclaw in 3 days
vibe coding to production AI is scary 😭
Robin saying "Ingress nginx" and batman slapping him saying "No"
I'm once again reviving this meme template for the Kubernetes community
Most teams don’t notice over‑provisioned Kubernetes clusters… until a new pricing tweak lands and someone finally asks, “Why is this so expensive?”
The painful part: it was already expensive. Now it’s just visible.
More: www.fairwinds.com/blog/over-pr...
#Kubernetes #CloudPricing #Overprovisioning
picture to convey concept The Cost of EKS Auto + Capabilities vs Fairwinds Managed KaaS
Turning on EKS Auto Mode doesn’t magically erase Kubernetes ownership. It just changes which parts you’re renting from AWS and which parts still live with your team. This post unpacks that split & how to cover it:
https://www.fairwinds.com/blog/cost-eks-auto-capabilities-vs-fairwinds-managed-kaas
Kubernetes: It's like managing a data center with a YAML Ouija board.
aws/karpenter-provider-aws released v1.8.5 #karpenter #eks #kubernetes
3. Advancing Kubernetes AI Conformance: Current State and Roadmap: https://sched.co/2EF76
4. Evolving KServe: The Unified Model Inference Platform for Both Predictive and Generative AI: https://sched.co/2EF54
If you see me around the hallway or at the sessions, I’d love to chat about:
- Model inference (KServe, vLLM, @llm-d.ai)
- @kubernetes.io AI Conformance Program
- @kubefloworg.bsky.social & @argoproj.bsky.social
- @cncf.io TAG Workloads Foundation
- Open source, cloud-native, AI infra and systems
5. Explore TAG Workloads Foundation: Advancing Cloud Native Execution From Core Runtime To Applications: https://sched.co/2EF7F
A full list of my upcoming and past sessions can be found here: https://github.com/terrytangyuan/public-talks
Excited to share that I'll be speaking at #KubeCon Europe in Amsterdam! You can find me in the following sessions:
1. Cloud Native AI + Kubeflow Day: Welcome + Opening Remarks: https://sched.co/2DZN3
2. Project Lightning Talk: Evolving KServe: https://sched.co/2EFyW
Your Kubernetes infrastructure shouldn’t be one SRE away from chaos.
Learn how to survive an SRE departure: document fast, lean on automation, stay ahead of CVEs/EKS versions, and know when to call in managed KaaS.
www.fairwinds.com/blog/keep-ku...
#Kubernetes #SRE #CloudNative
“Kubernetes isn’t getting simpler—the ecosystem around it is getting smarter.”
In this interview, Andy Suderman traces his path to leading engineering at Fairwinds & why deprecations, API churn, and right‑sizing still dominate real‑world Kubernetes operations.
cloudnativenow.com/video-interv...
CNCF announced the schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam!
AI, observability, platform engineering, security, and emerging tech all get dedicated tracks—with Fairwinds’ Stevie Caldwell appearing on the Observability track schedule.
Deets: www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
Doing nothing about #EKS versions isn't an option. Letting clusters drift into #extendedsupport can:
* Inflate control plane costs
* Increase security + compatibility risk
* Force rushed upgrades later
Learn why ongoing maintenance is a #finops responsibility:
www.fairwinds.com/blog/underst...
Many IDPs stall not for technical reasons, but because they’re treated as infrastructure projects instead of products with real customers: your developers. This piece breaks down 7 common pitfalls and how to avoid them.
Read more:
www.fairwinds.com/blog/how-to-...
#IDP #infrastructure #k8s #devex
EKS upgrades don’t have to mean late‑night fire drills. Check out this updated step‑by‑step guide that covers:
> Planning around EKS support lifecycle
> Safely sequencing control plane, node groups & add‑ons
> #OSS tools Pluto, Nova, kubepug, eksup, GoNoGo & Velero
www.fairwinds.com/blog/guide-s...
Thread: Laptop Buying Guide for Coding & Programming (2026)
x.com/clcoding/sta...
