Kubernetes has become the de-facto orchestration platform for the cloud-native era. However, the expensive trial-and-error and proof-of-concept activities associated with the transition can be daunting for many organizations. Join Fairwinds’ Site Reliability Engineers Ivan Fetch and Luke Reed, and President Kendall Miller as they discuss the best practices for running and implementing Kubernetes. They’ll also cover how engineering leaders are successfully using Kubernetes to improve the reliability, security, and scalability of their applications and the key differences between Enterprise and SME Environments. Are you considering Kubernetes, but don't know where to start? Are you running Kubernetes in development, but the complexity is keeping you from pushing to production? This webinar will provide you with the right knowledge and insights for adopting Kubernetes at your organization. Topics include: Considerations and common pitfalls when implementing Kubernetes, Best practices for running Kubernetes in production, Security and cultural implications when adopting Kubernetes, Key differences between Enterprise and SME Environments.

1. Best Practices for Running and
Implementing Kubernetes

2. Agenda
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Your speakers today
Kendall Miller
President
Ivan Fetch
Site Reliability Engineer
Luke Reed
Site Reliability Engineer

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Fairwinds, the Kubernetes Enablement Platform
We enable companies to build and maintain secure,
reliable and scalable Kubernetes infrastructure using
services, open source, and software.
By partnering with Fairwinds, you can focus on getting
your products and services to market faster.
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About Fairwinds

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Enabling companies to succeed with Kubernetes
Customers
Partners
● Services and software built upon best practices
learned from our expert SREs
● Focused on enablement: “teaching you to fish”
● 4+ years managing Kubernetes infrastructure
● 100% focused on Kubernetes and
container infrastructure
● 100s of clusters and 1000s of deployments
● 6 leading open source projects
Company

5. Please ask Questions
Throughout, We’ll Answer
at the End.

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☐ Considerations and common pitfalls when implementing
Kubernetes
☐ Best practices for running Kubernetes in production
☐ Security implications when adopting Kubernetes
☐ Q&A
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7. Considerations and common pitfalls
when implementing Kubernetes

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Considerations and common pitfalls
☐ What are the common things that people come to us for?
☐ Why Kubernetes instead of Serverless, ECS, Heroku, etc?
☐ Will Kubernetes help implement a DevOps culture?
○ Tools often amplify and reflect culture
☐ These problems are scary to a lot of companies. How does Fairwinds
tackle this?

9. Best practices for running
Kubernetes in production

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☐ Reliability
○ Reducing human error
○ Increased auditability
○ Disaster recovery
○ Stateful Set
☐ Efficiency
○ Do I need to start thinking about building a CI/CD pipeline?
○ Instance groups/types
○ Resource requests/limits
○ Autoscaling all the things
○ Spot instances
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Best practices for running Kubernetes in production

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Best practices for running Kubernetes in production
☐ Monitoring and alerting
○ Monitoring as code
○ Developer enablement
○ Centralized aggregation/management
○ Criticality and actionability

12. Security implications when
adopting Kubernetes

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Security implications when adopting Kubernetes
☐ Updates/upgrades/patching (ensuring you can keep up to date on
Kubernetes and all the add-ons you run)
☐ How to Automate TLS certs
☐ How to approach RBAC
☐ Network Policies
☐ Workload Identities
☐ Managing Secrets in Kubernetes

14. Any Questions?
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15. Thanks!