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Fairwinds
Company blog · fairwinds.com/blog · on HN as kenm47systemsbusiness
Fairwinds is the company blog at fairwinds.com, writing about systems and business. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Gemini: Automate Backups of PersistentVolumes in Kubernetes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mostly linked through job listings from Fairwinds, a remote Kubernetes services company. One thread discusses its Polaris 1.0 article on Kubernetes workload best practices and OPA support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Fairwinds manages your Kubernetes platform and third-party tooling so your infrastructure team can focus on high-priority, business-specific dev needs.
Most-linked posts?
- Gemini: Automate Backups of PersistentVolumes in Kubernetes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-18
What Hacker News says?
Fairwinds | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Remote | Full-time https://www.fairwinds.com/careers We're a provider of software and services focused on Kubernetes. We've been remote-first since our inception ~6 years ago, and have built an inclusive, learning-driven engineering culture. We're looking for someone with Kubernetes experience who likes working with customers and solving hard problems.
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)”Submitted Polaris 1.0: Best Practices for Kubernetes Workloads as a story · 73 points
HN discussionWe're looking at building OPA support into Polaris as well, given how much the community has invested in it. For all the promise of OPA, we haven't seen it gain much traction outside of large enterprises, for many of the reasons we outline in the article. Polaris is also 100% free. My guess is you're referring to Insights[0], which is a SaaS that incorporates Polaris, as well as several other open source auditing to…
Comment linking /insights
on “Polaris 1.0: Best Practices for Kubernetes Workloads”Submitted Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility as a story · 53 points
HN discussionFairwinds | Remote (US) | Full-Time Fairwinds is looking for an SRE with Kubernetes experience. As an SRE at Fairwinds, you’ll work directly with clients to ensure their goals are met through automation, analysis, and infrastructure configuration. Working collaboratively with the other SREs at Fairwinds, your expertise will help our clients succeed with Kubernetes through building robust infrastructure, solving comp…
Comment linking /careers/openings/site-reliability-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)”Submitted Kubernetes turns 10: a ditty dedicated to a decade of container orchestration as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Problems Does Kubernetes Solve? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips from Our Experience with Kubernetes SoC 2 Compliance as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes Mutations with Polaris as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problems with Kubernetes Cost Estimation as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polaris 4.0: Policy for Kubernetes Resources as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running stateful application workloads in Kubernetes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Saffire - Failover during Docker registry outages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nova – Monitor Helm for New Kubernetes Releases as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes: The Cost of Doing It Wrong as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Run Scalable Kubernetes Clusters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why DevSecOps Is Just a Fancy Acronym for Kubernetes Service Ownership as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do I Need a Kubernetes Managed Service or Professional Service? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Myth of Cloud Agnosticism (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating from Heroku to Kubernetes via GKE as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infrastructure as Code Should Not Have a Single Point of Failure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service: A Force Multiplier for Your Tech Team as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fairwinds launches a free tier of insights for K8s cost management and security as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Does It Cost to Fix Your Kubernetes Clusters? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fairwinds Releases Polaris 4.0, Provides Support for All Kubernetes Resources as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can't (always) afford free software as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gemini: Automate Backups of PersistentVolumes in Kubernetes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gemini – Automate volume backups in Kubernetes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Sense of Kubernetes with Fairwinds Insights as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Journey from Heroku to Kubernetes in 5 Steps as a story · 1 points
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