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Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility

6 minute read | April 17, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced extended support prices for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), prompting some businesses to reevaluate how they manage their cloud...

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Featured
6 minute read
| April 17, 2024

Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced extended support prices for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), prompting some businesses to reevaluate how they manage their cloud... Read More
Best Practices
16 minute read
| April 5, 2024

Guide to Understanding Your Kubernetes Liveness Probes Best Practices

Kubernetes, initially released in 2014, is an open source container orchestration system released under Apache License 2.0 and written in the programming language Go. Google... Read More
Best Practices
12 minute read
| April 5, 2024

5 Ways You Can Diagnose & Prevent OOMKilled Errors in Kubernetes

Learn some of the steps you can take to diagnose an OOMKilled (Out of Memory) error in a Linux-based system. Out of memory errors in Kubernetes usually occur when a container... Read More
Best Practices
8 minute read
| April 4, 2024

How to Create, View, and Destroy a Pod in Kubernetes

In our How-to-Kube series, we began by covering the pod basics. Similar to service, volume, and namespace, a pod is a basic Kubernetes object. A pod is a set of one or more... Read More
Managed Kubernetes
4 minute read
| April 2, 2024

How to Escape the 3 AM Page as a Kubernetes Site Reliability Engineer

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... Read More
Managed Kubernetes
5 minute read
| March 25, 2024

Feeling Stuck in Pivotal Cloud Foundry? We’ll Make Your Move to Kubernetes Easy

Is your organization feeling stuck using Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), now known as Tanzu Application Service (TAS or sometimes VMware Cloud Foundation)? You're not alone.... Read More
General
4 minute read
| March 19, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 15.1.1-15.5.0 App Groups Auto-Updates

This month, we’ve been working hard to make improvements to Fairwinds Insights that will make it easier to use, so you can make informed decisions about your Kubernetes... Read More
Security
5 minute read
| March 14, 2024

Look Good & Gain Peace of Mind with Fairwinds' Managed Kubernetes

Identifying and remediating Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) as soon as possible is important for businesses, particularly when a new vulnerability is disclosed.... Read More
General
5 minute read
| March 6, 2024

Embracing Managed Kubernetes Is a Strategic Move for Your Business

In the continuously evolving world of software engineering and infrastructure management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams have become increasingly important. These... Read More
General
5 minute read
| February 27, 2024

K8s Benchmark Report: Are Organizations Meeting NSA Hardening Checks?

The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) continue to update their Kubernetes hardening guidance, making... Read More
General
3 minute read
| February 20, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 15.0-15.2: Aggregated Action Items

This month, we’re pleased to share new updates in Fairwinds Insights, including aggregated Action Items and admission request resolutions. Let’s explore these new... Read More
Security
8 minute read
| February 13, 2024

Kubernetes Benchmark Report: Are Kubernetes Workloads More Secure in 2024?

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,... Read More
General
6 minute read
| February 6, 2024

2024 K8s Benchmark Report: The Latest Trends in Workload Reliability

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... Read More
Security
8 minute read
| January 30, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Now Enables You to Find Critical GKE Vulnerability

The critical vulnerability recently disclosed by cloud security firm Orca impacts Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and could allow threat actors with a Google account to take... Read More
General
5 minute read
| January 23, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 14.8 through 14.13.4: GitHub Comments

We took a break from sending updates in December, but we didn’t stop making improvements to Fairwinds Insights! This month, we’re delighted to share some new updates in... Read More
Cost
5 minute read
| January 18, 2024

Kubernetes Benchmark Report: Managing K8s Workload Costs in 2024

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... Read More
General
6 minute read
| January 10, 2024

2024 Kubernetes Benchmark Report: The Latest Analysis of Kubernetes Workloads

Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, enabling organizations to automate the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. As it does, DevOps, platform... Read More
Cost
7 minute read
| January 3, 2024

The Kubernetes Cost Features You Need in 2024

In the rapidly evolving Kubernetes ecosystem, managing costs effectively is as critical as ensuring operational efficiency. To make the most of your shift to cloud native... Read More
Governance
8 minute read
| December 18, 2023

The Single Most Important Kubernetes Best Practice: Apply Policy

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... Read More
Best Practices
10 minute read
| December 11, 2023

14 Kubernetes Policies Every User Needs to Know & Understand

Kubernetes is the undisputed standard for cloud native deployments, requiring platform engineers and developers alike to understand the complexities that come along with it.... Read More
General
12 minute read
| December 5, 2023

8 More Questions about K8s Pitfalls and Successes Answered by Experts

In the technology world, you may have heard that Kubernetes is great — but complicated. But what does that really mean? Since we've been practitioners in the space a while,... Read More
5 minute read
| November 28, 2023

A Platform Engineer's Guide: How to Manage Complexity in Kubernetes

Kubernetes has rapidly become the de facto standard for container orchestration, with a recent survey showing 97% of organizations reaped business and operational benefits... Read More
General
4 minute read
| November 21, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 14.4-14.7: Reliability & Costs Updates

This month we are happy to share some exciting updates in Fairwinds Insights, including an update that improves the reliability of deleting action items, which helps to... Read More
Best Practices
8 minute read
| November 14, 2023

Kubernetes Rightsizing: Save Money and Improve Performance

Kubernetes rightsizing is the process you use to ensure that your Kubernetes cluster has the right amount of resources to run your workloads efficiently. K8s rightsizing... Read More
How to Kube
10 minute read
| November 8, 2023

Getting Started with Terraform and AKS: a Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying Your First Cluster

We are major advocates of using infrastructure as code to manage Kubernetes. Terraform is one tool we use to mange the entire lifecycle of Kubernetes infrastructure. Read... Read More
How to Kube
8 minute read
| November 8, 2023

What is Terraform and Why is it Important?

Running infrastructure at any scale almost always guarantees a dizzying array of components and configurations. To further complicate things, different teams within an... Read More
5 minute read
| November 7, 2023

Announcing Fairwinds' Extended Support for Kubernetes Cost Rightsizing

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... Read More
General
6 minute read
| November 1, 2023

Join the Cloud Native Community at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America

If you’re running cloud-native apps and services, you probably already know that KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 is next week, November 6-9 in Chicago! Fairwinds... Read More
General
14 minute read
| October 26, 2023

Top 5 Tips for Better Kubernetes Self Service

When you've got a medium- to large-sized company, you need a platform to help your application teams ship code into production in a standardized way. This ensures that your... Read More
10 minute read
| October 24, 2023

AMA with K8s Experts: Learn from Real-Life Pitfalls & Success Stories

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... Read More
General
6 minute read
| October 19, 2023

A Platform Engineer's Guide to Successful Kubernetes Migration

Migrating to Kubernetes is an important shift that offers organizations multiple benefits, such as improved scalability, agility, and resource utilization. However, like any... Read More
General
4 minute read
| October 17, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 13.11-14.3: Action Items Report & More

This month we are happy to share some great new functionality in Fairwinds Insights, including an update making Action Items for rightsizing workloads available in CI/CD as... Read More
How to Kube
6 minute read
| October 12, 2023

Kubernetes Risk Management: What it Is & How to Get Started

As cloud-native technology becomes increasingly popular, Kubernetes stands as the de facto solution for container orchestration. However, Kubernetes' power comes with a wide... Read More
Cost
14 minute read
| October 10, 2023

Top 6 Things to Know about Kubernetes Spending (and How to Manage It)

Kubernetes makes it easy to deploy and scale containerized applications quickly and efficiently, and when built in alignment with best practices, it can increase the... Read More
General
7 minute read
| October 4, 2023

Top 3 Tips Learned from Getting Fairwinds Insights into AWS Marketplace

The AWS Marketplace has grown extensively over the years, and it has a significant impact on how we buy solutions in the cloud. This is one of the many reasons that we’ve... Read More
6 minute read
| October 3, 2023

Expanding Your Kubernetes Policy Control Options with Kyverno Integration

Kubernetes, as many already know, is a Greek word that means “helmsman” or “pilot” in English — a fitting name for the platform we use to manage containerized workloads and... Read More
General
5 minute read
| September 29, 2023

Your Questions on Polaris: Open Source Configuration Validation for Kubernetes

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... Read More
General
8 minute read
| September 27, 2023

Introducing Action Items Progress Reporting

Platform engineers and developers alike already know that Kubernetes is complex, and it can be hard to track and document improvements in this ephemeral environment. To... Read More
General
11 minute read
| September 21, 2023

Building a Kubernetes Platform: How to Handle Cost Management & Reporting

Platforms, sometimes called internal developer platforms, are a unified infrastructure that allows all the development teams you have in your company, whether it be two or 20... Read More
General
3 minute read
| September 19, 2023

Fairwinds Insights: Kyverno Integration, Consolidated Recommendations, Release Notes & Office Hours

This month we have lots to update on, including an integration with Kyverno, how we are reducing cognitive load by consolidating resource recommendations, our release notes,... Read More
General
6 minute read
| September 14, 2023

K8s Enterprise Questions: What About Security, Platform Engineering, and Distros?

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow and enterprises increasingly deploy production workloads, we’ve seen a lot of questions. Our recent Cloud Native Now webinar with... Read More
General
6 minute read
| September 12, 2023

Build a Custom Kubernetes Platform? Or Try the Insights Free Tier?

As businesses grow and scale, the deployment of applications and services on production Kubernetes environments becomes increasingly prevalent. Platform engineering and... Read More
General
9 minute read
| September 7, 2023

Diving in to Day 2 Ops, Stateful Apps, & more with Kubernetes Experts

We had so many great questions about Kubernetes in the Enterprise in our recent Cloud Native Now webinar that I wanted to share more of the discussion. Mike Vizard, Chief... Read More
Open Source
6 minute read
| September 5, 2023

Pluto Finds Deprecated Kubernetes API Versions — 3 Questions from Users

Pluto is an open source utility that Fairwinds built to help users find deprecated Kubernetes API versions in their code repositories and Helm releases. As many Kubernetes... Read More
General
4 minute read
| August 31, 2023

Get the Help You Need, Wherever You Are in Your Kubernetes Journey

Just as Kubernetes itself has grown and evolved, so has Fairwinds. For the last five years, I've been involved in delivering Kubernetes infrastructure to our customers in a... Read More
General
3 minute read
| August 29, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 13.3-13.8 — the Latest Cost Updates

This month we’re happy to share some updates in Fairwinds Insights related to network and storage costs as well as other improvements and bug fixes. Read More
Best Practices
7 minute read
| August 24, 2023

What Not to Monitor and What Not to Alert On in Kubernetes

Kubernetes, the de-facto container orchestrator, offers considerable flexibility and power. But monitoring every single thing in Kubernetes can become overwhelming quickly!... Read More
General
4 minute read
| August 18, 2023

KubeCrash Fall 2023: Multi-Cluster Deployments at Enterprise Scale

With KubeCon approaching fast (yes, November will be here before we know it), we’ve been preparing for KubeCrash, your cloud native warm-up! Read More
General
9 minute read
| August 17, 2023

Kubernetes in the Enterprise: Your Questions Answered

Recently, I joined an in-depth discussion about the state of Kubernetes in the Enterprise, courtesy ofCloud Native Now, bringing in the expertise from practitioners in the... Read More
Featured
4 minute read
| August 16, 2023

Fairwinds Named a Cool Vendor in the Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Container Management

I’m very pleased and proud to announce that Fairwinds has been named in the 2023 Gartner Cool Vendor™ in Container Management report! We believe this is an honor for the... Read More
Open Source
6 minute read
| August 10, 2023

Nova Contributors: Help Us Scan YAML templates and Ignore Non-Stable Versions

Nova is an open source project that makes it easy for you to scan your cluster for installed Helm charts, then it cross-checks them against all known Helm repositories. If it... Read More
Governance
10 minute read
| August 8, 2023

Kubernetes Governance & the Top 5 Best Practices of K8s Deployment

The widespread adoption of containerized applications has fundamentally changed how organizations develop, deploy, and manage their software infrastructure. Kubernetes is... Read More
Open Source
8 minute read
| August 3, 2023

Upload Polaris Findings to Fairwinds Insights to Access More Capabilities

Kubernetes is increasingly becoming mainstream, the industry standard for next-generation workloads and digital transformation. In 2022, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation... Read More
How to Kube
10 minute read
| August 1, 2023

How & Why You Should Install the Admission Controller in Insights

In the world of containerized everything, Kubernetes has emerged as a platform to automate the process of deployment, scaling, and management of these applications and... Read More
Cost
4 minute read
| July 27, 2023

How to Adapt the FinOps Model for Kubernetes

As we continue to deploy more applications and services to production in Kubernetes environments, our financial strategies around managing costs in Kubernetes must adapt... Read More
General
3 minute read
| July 25, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 12.16-13.2

This month we’re delighted to share some updates in Fairwinds Insights related to Prometheus metrics in addition to other improvements and bug fixes. Prometheus-metrics can... Read More
Reliability
5 minute read
| July 20, 2023

8 Advanced Strategies to Help You Optimize Kubernetes Reliability

If you’ve covered all the basics of improving reliability for your Kubernetes apps and services, you might be wondering what else you can do to make it even better. Based on... Read More
General
11 minute read
| July 18, 2023

Building a Kubernetes Platform: What You Need to Monitor in K8s and Why

Lots of people are talking about platforms, frequently talking about it as an IDP or internal developer platform. Essentially what this means is that you have a unified... Read More
Open Source
7 minute read
| July 13, 2023

Answering Your Goldilocks Questions About How HPA and VPA Work Together

Kubernetes, the open source platform for managing containerized workloads, provides you with a framework for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Let’s... Read More
Cost
8 minute read
| July 11, 2023

4 Ways to Improve Long Term Kubernetes Capacity & Cloud Costs in Kubernetes

Today, who isn’t looking for ways to minimize costs and increase efficiency? The uncertain economic environment is causing many organizations to take another look at cloud... Read More
Security
12 minute read
| July 5, 2023

Navigating Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Security

The era of cloud-native applications has arrived, and new security challenges have emerged for those developing cloud-native applications. Many modern business applications... Read More
General
6 minute read
| June 28, 2023

New Capabilities in Fairwinds Insights: Custom Fields and Issue Types

If you are managing development teams using Kubernetes, you need to be able to easily find, triage, and fix problems quickly. You likely already have existing tools in place... Read More
Cost
4 minute read
| June 26, 2023

Explore K8s Cost Allocation and Right-sizing at FinOps X

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,... Read More
Reliability
7 minute read
| June 22, 2023

Building a Strong Reliability Foundation in Kubernetes: From Crawl to Run

In the world of modern application development, Kubernetes is the de facto container orchestration platform. It helps platform and development teams manage applications and... Read More
General
5 minute read
| June 20, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 12.11-12.15 & More

This month we’re excited to share some new capabilities in Fairwinds Insights in addition to other improvements and bug fixes. Last month we officially launched our new Costs... Read More
Policy
8 minute read
| June 15, 2023

Fairwinds Jamathon: Unlocking the Power of OpenAI: Creating OPA Policies for Kubernetes

Fairwinds hosts an annual Jamathon amongst employees. It’s a fun, several week program that gives every person the chance to try something new, work with different teams, and... Read More
Featured
7 minute read
| June 13, 2023

Introducing Base Image Finder: An Open Source Tool for Identifying Base Images

One challenge everyone working with containers has experienced is worrying about common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) putting your apps and services at risk of attack.... Read More
Policy
9 minute read
| June 8, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Manage Policy at Scale

As the number of apps and services deployed in Kubernetes environments grows, your environment is going to become more complex. Being able to manage policies at scale goes... Read More
Governance
6 minute read
| June 6, 2023

Now Available: Automated Compliance Evidence Collection in Fairwinds Insights

Adopting cloud-native technologies like containers and Kubernetes presents new compliance challenges. Since containers are ephemeral in nature, determining if an environment... Read More
Security
17 minute read
| June 1, 2023

SOC 2 Compliance for Kubernetes with Fairwinds Insights

As the pace of digital transformation accelerates, many organizations are adopting Kubernetes for managing their containerized workloads. While Kubernetes brings scalability... Read More
General
9 minute read
| May 30, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Integrate Slack and Fairwinds Insights

Many organizations today use Slack, across teams, departments, countries, and even continents. Particularly useful in a remote or hybrid work environment, Slack improves... Read More
Security
7 minute read
| May 25, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Check Host Port Configuration in Kubernetes

In Kubernetes, a host port configuration allows you to expose a port from your container to the host node's interface. This enables external systems to access a service... Read More
General
6 minute read
| May 23, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 12.3-12.10

This month, the Fairwinds Insights release notes include lots of helpful improvements and bug fixes in the Insights platform. We’re also very excited that our Costs page has... Read More
General
43 minute read
| May 19, 2023

9 Key Takeaways from a Platform Team's Panel Discussion on Kubernetes

If you’re thinking about building a Kubernetes platform that your developers can use to build applications, you need to know where to start, what questions to ask, and how to... Read More
General
11 minute read
| May 17, 2023

Goldilocks: An Open Source Tool for Recommending Resource Requests

Originally published October 2019; updated 2023 One of the questions that I get most frequently from our customers at Fairwinds is “How do we know what to set our resource... Read More
10 minute read
| May 16, 2023

Building a Kubernetes Platform: A Comprehensive Guide to CI/CD Deployment

Kubernetes is increasingly the go-to container orchestration platform for businesses seeking to manage their containerized applications efficiently. One of the critical... Read More
Best Practices
12 minute read
| May 11, 2023

How You Can Avoid Common Kubernetes Misconfigurations & Vulnerabilities

Securing workloads in Kubernetes is an important part of your cluster security overall. Your overall goal should be to ensure that your containers are running with minimal... Read More
Best Practices
7 minute read
| May 10, 2023

7 Building Blocks for a Successful Internal Developer Platform for Kubernetes

As organizations continue to adopt Kubernetes for container orchestration, the need for a robust internal developer platform has become increasingly important. According to ... Read More
Reliability
6 minute read
| May 5, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Resolve Readiness Probe Action Items

Readiness probes, like liveness probes, are a type of health check in Kubernetes. They determine whether a container is ready to accept traffic. If a container fails a... Read More
Reliability
15 minute read
| May 3, 2023

Increase Kubernetes Reliability: A Best Practices Guide for Readiness Probes

Kubernetes, released by Google as an open source container orchestration system in 2014 under Apache License 2.0, is written in the programming language Go. Today, Kubernetes... Read More
General
4 minute read
| April 28, 2023

How to Lean into the Good and Mitigate Risk When Adopting Front-Edge Technology

Over the course of my career, I’ve primarily worked with front-edge technology. It can be a thrilling experience — thrilling good, and thrilling scary! The common thread is a... Read More
Governance
10 minute read
| April 27, 2023

Building a Kubernetes Platform: How & Why to Apply Governance and Policy

A Platform, sometimes called an "internal developer platform," is a unified infrastructure that allows development teams in a company to deliver applications rapidly and... Read More
Policy
9 minute read
| April 25, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basic Tutorial: Validating OPA Policies in the CLI for Cloud-Native Infrastructure

The Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine that provides a framework for validating structured data across your cloud-native stack. It... Read More
Governance
6 minute read
| April 20, 2023

Now Available: NSA Hardening Guidance Compliance Report in Fairwinds Insights

The Kubernetes Hardening Guide published by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) provides comprehensive guidance... Read More
General
6 minute read
| April 18, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 11.12-12.2: Spotlight on Automated Fix PRs

This month’s Fairwinds Insights release notes offer a number of bug fixes and also details of our latest enhancements to Automated Fix Pull Requests (PRs) and our new NSA... Read More
Security
10 minute read
| April 13, 2023

How to Meet FedRAMP's Requirements for Container Vulnerability Scanning

The federal government continues to work to increase cybersecurity efforts in the United States, including, of course, in cloud environments. Specifically focused on cloud... Read More
Reliability
6 minute read
| April 11, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Resolve Liveness Probe Action Items

Liveness probes are an important type of health check in Kubernetes that determines whether a container is running and responsive. Kubernetes probes can help you identify... Read More
Security
7 minute read
| April 3, 2023

Kubernetes Basics Tutorial: Host IPC Should Not Be Configured

Containers are standard software units that package code with all its dependencies so you can run applications quickly and reliably in one computing environment or another.... Read More
General
5 minute read
| March 29, 2023

Fix Your Kubernetes Misconfigurations Faster with Automated Fix Pull Requests

We're excited to announce the launch of our latest Fairwinds Insights feature, Automated Fix Pull Requests (PRs). You can automatically fix many Kubernetes misconfigurations... Read More
Security
7 minute read
| March 28, 2023

Empower Your Developers by Giving Them a Life Vest for Kubernetes Security

# Insecurity on the water I'm taking sailing lessons with my 12 year old son and he's as excited about it as I am. We have been out twice on a 37 foot sailboat with an... Read More
General
5 minute read
| March 23, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 11.7-11.11: Costs Page Updates [Beta]

This month, the Fairwinds Insights release notes include helpful improvements and bug fixes in the Insights platform. We’re also very excited to share our Costs page updates,... Read More
Cost
7 minute read
| March 23, 2023

How to Accelerate Your Kubernetes Cost Journey Through Best Practices

Organizations are moving to the cloud and building new cloud-native applications and services in Kubernetes to increase the scalability and availability of new offerings.... Read More
General
8 minute read
| March 21, 2023

2023 Benchmark Kubernetes Report: The State of Kubernetes Workload Reliability

Organizations continue to move more applications and services to the cloud. Despite economic uncertainty, most organizations anticipate that their expected cloud usage and... Read More
Security
7 minute read
| March 17, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: Check Kubernetes Configuration for Privilege Escalation

Securing Kubernetes workloads is a critical aspect of increasing your overall cluster security. The goal is to ensure that your containers are running with minimal privileges... Read More
Security
10 minute read
| March 14, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: Avoid Containers Running with Dangerous Capabilities

Containers are standard units of software that package code and its related dependencies to enable applications to run reliably in different computing environments. Container... Read More
Security
24 minute read
| March 10, 2023

Why you Need Kubernetes Security Policy Enforcement

Securing Kubernetes is a serious topic, both for organizations already implementing Kube and those that are just getting ready to migrate to the open source container... Read More
Security
10 minute read
| March 8, 2023

2023 Benchmark Kubernetes Report: The State of Kubernetes Workload Security

Moving to the cloud remains an important business initiative for organizations around the world. According to the World Economic Forum, digital transformation can enable... Read More
General
7 minute read
| March 7, 2023

KubeCrash Spring 2023 is Here! Learn From Crash Courses on Cloud Native

KubeCon EU is just around the corner, so KubeCrash, the Amsterdam warm-up event, is here too! This is our third time hosting KubeCrash, a KubeCon co-located event for... Read More
Governance
7 minute read
| March 2, 2023

5 Ways Cloud Native Guardrails Help Your Development Team Deliver

Traditional approaches to governance, such as Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) approaches that created a set of detailed practices for IT service and... Read More
General
8 minute read
| February 27, 2023

How You Can Scale Kubernetes Without Leaving Security and Operational Excellence Behind

Techstrong Research polled its community in 2022, asking DevOps, cloud-native cybersecurity, and digital transformation readers and viewers about their Kubernetes... Read More
General
4 minute read
| February 22, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 11.2-11.6: Improved Cluster Overview

This month, the release notes for Fairwinds Insights include several bug fixes and improvements. We’ve updated the cluster overview page to change how the Action Items chart... Read More
Featured
6 minute read
| February 20, 2023

Kubernetes: The Cost of Doing It Wrong

I bike a lot. I bike long distances for exercise, I bike over mountains for meditative calm, I bike with friends to share an activity and a laugh (especially when that friend... Read More
General
10 minute read
| February 15, 2023

Kubernetes Clinic: Learn How to Check Your Kubernetes Cluster Health

At the beginning of a new year, we all want to start doing things to make ourselves healthier, more productive, or happier. Your Kubernetes clusters deserve the same kind of... Read More
Security
3 minute read
| February 14, 2023

New Fairwinds Insights Release: Terraform Scanning

When it comes to security issues, time is of the essence. Platform Engineering teams need to be able to catch issues as early in the deployment process as possible and, at... Read More
Security
8 minute read
| February 14, 2023

Kubernetes Basics Tutorial: Ensure Containers Do Not Run As Root

A container is a unit of software that brings code and all of its dependencies together, making it possible to run the application quickly and reliably in different computing... Read More
General
8 minute read
| February 7, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Install the In-Cluster Agent

First of all, let’s talk about the Fairwinds Insights In-Cluster Agent —what is it, anyway? At Fairwinds, we refer to the Helm chart used to deploy it as the Fairwinds... Read More
Cost
7 minute read
| February 6, 2023

2023 Kubernetes Benchmark Report: The State of Kubernetes Workload Costs

Organizations continue to move to the cloud. In fact, according to Flexera’s 2022 Tech Spend Pulse, 65% of respondents place cloud and cloud migrations as a top priority for... Read More
Cost
4 minute read
| February 1, 2023

You’re Not Monitoring Kubernetes Cost, and You Should Be

When I got my first (real) job washing dishes at an ice cream and sandwich shop, I spent every single penny I made in my first few paychecks. Then my dad suggested I start... Read More
General
14 minute read
| January 27, 2023

Get Started with Fairwinds Insights (Free Tier), Kubernetes Governance Platform

Fairwinds Insights is software for Kubernetes platform engineers to integrate into internal developer platforms with built-in and customized Kubernetes best practices that... Read More
General
6 minute read
| January 24, 2023

Why Now, Why Free? Try Fairwinds Insights, Kubernetes Governance Today

We’re excited that starting this year we are offering a free tier of Fairwinds Insights, our Kubernetes governance software. Many organizations are just getting started with... Read More
Security
8 minute read
| January 23, 2023

An Overview of the NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guide

The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the 1.0 version of the Kubernetes hardening guide in August 2021... Read More
Open Source
13 minute read
| January 23, 2023

What Are Open Source Kubernetes Policy Engines? Why You Need One & How to Pick

The idea behind Kubernetes policies is that you will be more successful if you put guardrails in place for your development teams to ensure that they are adhering to ... Read More
General
4 minute read
| January 20, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 10.7-11.1: New Insights Continuous Integration (CI) Script

This month’s Fairwinds Insights release notes include several bug fixes and improvements as well as a new Insights Continuous Integration (CI) script to improve the... Read More
General
6 minute read
| January 18, 2023

Kubernetes Basics Tutorial: How to Integrate Jira and Fairwinds Insights

Jira is an issue and project tracking solution by Atlassian. Many organizations use Jira as a way to collaborate across teams, helping them to plan projects, assign tasks,... Read More
Governance
10 minute read
| January 12, 2023

GitOps Best Practices and the Kubernetes Guardrails You Need to Follow Them

GitOps is a buzzword everyone is talking about, a term coined in 2017 by Weaveworks. It uses an operations by pull request approach to define and manage networking,... Read More
General
7 minute read
| January 10, 2023

2023 Kubernetes Benchmark Report: How Do Your Kubernetes Workloads Compare?

Kubernetes adoption is growing, and as organizations increasingly use it to automate the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications, more teams are... Read More
Cost
13 minute read
| December 22, 2022

How to Implement FinOps and Increase Your Kubernetes Cost Avoidance

Many organizations recently started using Kubernetes in production and are just beginning to see what the Kubernetes and cloud costs really look like. It is not uncommon for... Read More
General
4 minute read
| December 20, 2022

2023 Cloud Native Predictions

As we wrap 2022 and look to 2023, here are a round up of cloud native and Kubernetes predictions by the Fairwinds team: Bill Ledingham, Andy Suderman, Robert Brennan and... Read More
Governance
27 minute read
| December 19, 2022

What is Kubernetes Governance?

Kubernetes governance is the set of policies and procedures organizations adopt to define how Kubernetes is managed and maintained, and it is an essential part of how... Read More
General
7 minute read
| December 16, 2022

Kubernetes Basics Tutorial: Why & How to Set Image Pull Policy to "Always"

Getting started with Kubernetes can seem a bit overwhelming because, while it offers a great deal of flexibility and scalability, those benefits come with complexity. Getting... Read More
Security
14 minute read
| December 13, 2022

The Top Three Kubernetes Security Strategies You Need for 2023

The entire world is trying to move to Kubernetes. At the same time, everyone is afraid that they are going to do something wrong. They fear shipping apps and services that... Read More
General
10 minute read
| December 1, 2022

Are you Having These 5 Disagreements about Kubernetes? You Should Be!

As we head into 2023, it’s a great time to think about how you are using your tech stack, particularly Kubernetes. Many organizations jumped into Kubernetes in 2020, spurred... Read More
General
2 minute read
| November 22, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 10.2-10.6: Spotlight on Workload Cost Allocation

This month’s Fairwinds Insights release notes offer a number of bug fixes and also details of our latest enhancements to cost allocation functionality. Workload Cost... Read More
Open Source
14 minute read
| November 21, 2022

Top 4 Kubernetes Open Source Tools You Need in 2023

It’s wild to think that 2022 is wrapping up and that many of us are prepping for what’s next in 2023. As the new year fast approaches, it’s time to consider what Kubernetes... Read More
General
8 minute read
| November 17, 2022

AWS Karpenter Readiness: 6 Ways to Make Sure You're Ready for the Move

For people familiar with Kubernetes, you already know that it has many configurations available, either to scale or to perform better. In the past, most organizations used... Read More
General
6 minute read
| November 10, 2022

Kubecost Alternatives: Kubernetes Cost Allocation and Optimization by Fairwinds

At this year’s KubeCon, there was a lot of talk about Kubernetes cost optimization and allocation; and many of these attendees were looking for alternative options to... Read More
General
8 minute read
| November 8, 2022

6 Kubernetes Cost Control Strategies You Need in Place for 2023

Organizations have increasingly undertaken cloud migration initiatives, moving from on-premises data centers to adopting containers and Kubernetes to change their... Read More
Security
2 minute read
| November 3, 2022

CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 OpenSSL Vulnerabilities: Scanning Container Images

On November 1st, 2022, OpenSSL announced a pair of High Severity vulnerabilities in version 3.0.0-3.0.6 of OpenSSL. The vulnerability is a buffer overflow that requires a... Read More
Best Practices
10 minute read
| November 2, 2022

Why Aren't You Following These 5 Kubernetes Best Practices?

As containers have taken hold as the standard method of developing and deploying cloud-native applications, many organizations are adopting Kubernetes as the solution they... Read More
General
6 minute read
| October 25, 2022

Kubernetes Cost Allocation: Updates to Fairwinds Insights

Kubernetes workload cost allocation is hard. To illustrate it, let’s just take a simplistic view of the problem. Read More
Open Source
4 minute read
| October 20, 2022

Kubernetes Resource Usage: Estimate Workload Cost with Goldilocks Open Source

If you are looking for help on how to set Kubernetes resource limits and requests, you’ve come to the right place. Goldilocks is an open source tool that helps users optimize... Read More
General
3 minute read
| October 18, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 9.12-10.1: Spotlight on Autoscan Enhancements

This month’s Fairwinds Insights release notes offer a number of bug fixes and also enhancements to our autoscan feature. Designed for Platform Engineering Managers who need... Read More
Policy
5 minute read
| October 12, 2022

Kubernetes Policy Enforcement for Developers

Policy Exists for a Reason You know that feeling where it's near midnight and you're outside of town and you pull up to a red light in your car and stop and start to wait.... Read More
Security
5 minute read
| October 6, 2022

Kubernetes Security vs. Security Theater

Physical Security Checks When I was a kid my father worked for the government and that sent us around the world to some interesting places. One of the places we lived had a... Read More
Best Practices
7 minute read
| September 28, 2022

Kubernetes Best Practice: How to (Correctly) Set Resource Requests and Limits

One of my biggest pet peeves when managing Kubernetes is when there are workloads with no resource requests and limits. I was so frustrated by this that I created Goldilocks,... Read More
General
4 minute read
| September 22, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 9.7-9.11: Spotlight on New Reports

We are always working on new features for Fairwinds Insights based on our customer feedback. We recently made several changes to our software. From bug fixes to new... Read More
Featured
6 minute read
| September 22, 2022

3 Things to Know about FinOps and Kubernetes

Recently I undertook the FinOps Foundation training and became certified. If you are looking to expand your FinOps knowledge, I’d highly recommend it. The training is vast... Read More
Featured
3 minute read
| September 20, 2022

Kubernetes Policy Engine, Polaris: A General Preview of New Checks

Polaris is an open source policy engine for Kubernetes that validates and remediates Kubernetes resources. It includes 30+ built in configuration policies and the ability to... Read More
Featured
7 minute read
| September 19, 2022

Kubernetes security, cost avoidance an' policy go 'and in 'and

Kubernetes security continues to be one o' the biggest concerns fer organizations adoptin' the technology. Security teams be learnin' kubernetes while devops an' developers... Read More
Featured
4 minute read
| September 14, 2022

New Fairwinds Insights Releases: Azure DevOps Integration & Secret Encryption

If you are managing a team of developers using Kubernetes, no doubt you are running into some scaling issues - not around supporting end-users, but around easily being able... Read More
General
4 minute read
| September 13, 2022

KubeCrash is Back! The KubeCon Detroit Warm-up

I’m so excited to be part of the second KubeCrash happening virtually this year in preparation for KubeCon Detroit. Alongside other great open source contributors -... Read More
Security
6 minute read
| September 8, 2022

Kubernetes Security, Cost Avoidance and Policy Go Hand in Hand

Kubernetes security continues to be one of the biggest concerns for organizations adopting the technology. Security teams are learning Kubernetes while DevOps and developers... Read More
Security
4 minute read
| September 1, 2022

Why Infrastructure-as-Code Scanning Matters for Kubernetes Configuration

Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the ability to provision and manage infrastructure using a configuration language. It offers the repeatability, transparency, and testing of... Read More
General
7 minute read
| August 24, 2022

FinOps "Crawl, Walk, Run" Maturity Model Applied to Kubernetes

FinOps has become an increasingly popular goal of many organizations. It helps to unite financial teams and cloud operations teams across organizations to speak the same... Read More
General
10 minute read
| August 23, 2022

5 Ways to Make Your Dev Teams (Using Kubernetes) Love You

As an engineering leader, you have a choice: you can make decisions constantly that drive everyone mad, or you can make your developers love you by enabling them to do the... Read More
Featured
5 minute read
| August 18, 2022

K8s Tutorial: Using the Policy Engine, Polaris, to Automate Fixes

In an earlier blog post, we showed you how to install the policy engine, Polaris, and audit your Kubernetes workloads using the Dashboard, an Admission Controller and the CLI... Read More
General
4 minute read
| August 17, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes: 8.10-9.6

Over the past month, the Fairwinds development team have released a number of updates to Insights including our newly designed Vulnerabilities Explorer that helps teams... Read More
General
4 minute read
| August 16, 2022

Find Your Kubernetes Cost Blind Spots

Cloud infrastructure has changed so dramatically in the last decade it's almost hard to believe. One of my first jobs in tech had a server room in a closet and we handled... Read More
Open Source
10 minute read
| August 11, 2022

K8s Tutorial: Use Polaris to Quickly Identify Kubernetes Security, Reliability and Efficiency Issues in Your Cluster

The Site Reliability Engineering team at Fairwinds has the unique experience of managing hundreds of Kubernetes clusters for a diverse set of companies, and they have found... Read More
Open Source
5 minute read
| August 9, 2022

GoNoGo Checks Kubernetes Add-ons Before an Upgrade

Deploying your first Kubernetes cluster on a service like GKE or AKS is pretty straightforward, but when you want to actually use Kubernetes, add-ons become important. ... Read More
Security
4 minute read
| August 4, 2022

Mitigate Kubernetes Risk with Vulnerabilities Explorer

For DevOps security leaders, knowing what vulnerabilities exist in Kubernetes clusters is critical, but only part of the problem. Once risks are identified, a plan of action... Read More
General
5 minute read
| August 3, 2022

3 Ways for Engineering Leaders to Kickstart a FinOps Program

As an engineering leader you need to be BFFs with your CFO. It’s that partnership that gives you a deep understanding of the business - and gives your CFO a view into the... Read More
9 minute read
| July 27, 2022

3 Kubernetes Guardrails Every Ops Team Needs

In a true DevOps environment, Ops and Dev share responsibility for the Kubernetes environment. Ops ensures the core platform runs smoothly, while Dev is responsible for... Read More
Open Source
10 minute read
| July 26, 2022

K8s Tutorial: Find Outdated Helm Charts with Nova

Making sure you have the most recent version of software you install in a Kubernetes cluster helps you avoid known security issues and have access to the most up-to-date... Read More
Security
3 minute read
| July 22, 2022

Kubernetes Security Alerts that Actually Matter

The Cost of Ignoring Security Alerts One of the bigger character flaws that I have is that I buy very old vehicles because I hate owning new things. Most of the time this is... Read More
Security
3 minute read
| July 19, 2022

Do You Have Kubernetes Security Blind Spots?

Kubernetes is Still New to Most People I managed to make it to my 30s before I had to buy a house and there are loads of reasons I wish I never had one. Read More
Open Source
8 minute read
| July 15, 2022

K8s Tutorial: Setting and Rightsizing Kubernetes Workloads with Goldilocks

A standard piece of advice for optimizing your Kubernetes cluster is to ensure that you set CPU and Memory Requests and Limits on every container. This seems simple, but how... Read More
Open Source
9 minute read
| July 12, 2022

Kubernetes Mutations with Polaris: How it Works

For the last three years, Polaris has allowed Kubernetes users to audit their clusters and Infrastructure-as-Code for best practices. It comes with over 20 built-in checks,... Read More
Open Source
4 minute read
| July 12, 2022

Practical Applications for Fairwinds Polaris' Automated Remediation

The core of Fairwinds’ mission is to enable teams using Kubernetes to ship applications faster with less risk. Platform engineering leaders are at the forefront of this:... Read More
How to Kube
5 minute read
| July 7, 2022

Find Deprecated and Removed APIs in Kubernetes: Intro to Pluto

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Policy
6 minute read
| July 6, 2022

Kubernetes Governance: What is OPA and Why Care?

Policy and governance are terms that often come up in the Kubernetes space, but how do we actually do this? This is where the Open Policy Agent (OPA) comes into the picture.... Read More
4 minute read
| June 22, 2022

Kubernetes Remediation at Scale: Visibility vs. Action

As I work with organizations of all sizes, one theme I run into is that visibility does not equal action. Kubernetes offers a lot of power, but also requires a lot of... Read More
General
5 minute read
| June 21, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 8.6-10: Spotlight on Policies and NSA Hardening Guidance

Fairwinds Insights has been enhanced over the last month to include a number of new features and bug fixes. The Kubernetes governance platform ensures users can configure... Read More
General
6 minute read
| June 17, 2022

Top 12 Kubernetes Resources: Learn and Stay Up-to-Date

The cloud native community is thriving and Kubernetes has a lot to do with it. As an open source community, members are dedicated to education and support on the topic. Read More
Security
5 minute read
| June 15, 2022

NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guide: Upgrade and Application Security

Our NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guide series has looked at pod security, network access, authentication and authorization, audit logging and threat detection. In the final... Read More
Security
5 minute read
| June 10, 2022

NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guide: Audit Logging and Threat Detection Overview

In our series on the NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guide, we’ve looked at pod security, network access and authentication and authorization. Today we look at the audit logging and... Read More
Open Source
3 minute read
| June 6, 2022

Open Source Project: NOVA 3.1.0, Not Just For Helm Users Anymore!

Up until now, Fairwinds Nova was just a tool for Helm releases. While this has been exceptionally useful for us and other users over the last several years, we recognize that... Read More
General
4 minute read
| June 2, 2022

What are Kubernetes Guardrails?

If you’ve ever gone bowling with small children, you’ll easily visualize a bowling lane with the bumpers up. The purpose: allow the bowling ball to reach the pins without the... Read More
Featured
5 minute read
| June 1, 2022

Kubernetes: The Blackhole of FinOps

FinOps has become another buzzword in the cloud native ecosystem of late. FinOps, as defined by the FinOps Foundation, is the: Read More
General
4 minute read
| May 26, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Latest Release Notes: 8.5.0

Fairwinds recently highlighted some of our enhancements to Insights helping to further unify DevSecOps with additional shift-left security features. We’ve also dug deep into... Read More
Security
3 minute read
| May 24, 2022

Kubernetes Vulnerability Management: Keep Third-party Images Up-to-Date

The Kubernetes ecosystem is built on a vast array of open source technologies. Kubernetes itself is one of the largest open source projects, and a community of tools and... Read More
General
6 minute read
| May 16, 2022

3 Things to Look Forward to at KubeCon EU

This week, the cloud native community will come together in Valencia, Spain for the first time, in person, since KubeCon in Barcelona in 2019. As an attendee of many KubeCons... Read More
Featured
7 minute read
| May 9, 2022

NSA Hardening Guide: How Can Fairwinds Insights Strengthen Your Authentication & Authorization Practices?

If you haven’t already thumbed through the NSA’s recent Kubernetes Hardening Guide to learn more about today’s best practices in Kubernetes and cloud native technologies,... Read More
Featured
8 minute read
| May 5, 2022

NSA Hardening Guide: Locking Down Network Access with Fairwinds Insights

In our second blog covering the NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidelines, we will discuss the myriad ways Fairwinds Insights—along with open source and cloud native... Read More
Featured
7 minute read
| April 29, 2022

NSA Hardening Guide: Three Ways Fairwinds Insights Can Root Out Poor Pod Security

The NSA has released a stringent set of guidelines for hardening your Kubernetes clusters. The 66-page document outlines a strong defense-in-depth approach to minimize the... Read More
Featured
6 minute read
| April 27, 2022

Three Steps to Streamlining Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Management

Kubernetes as a technology gives organizations the ability to run containerized applications at scale across different cloud infrastructures and distributions. What it can’t... Read More
News
4 minute read
| April 19, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Agent 2.0 | Release Notes: 7.12.0 - 8.1.0

Happy spring from Fairwinds! April has brought a lot of new improvements to the features and functionality of our SaaS governance platform for Kubernetes, Fairwinds Insights.... Read More
Best Practices
4 minute read
| April 19, 2022

Don’t Forget to Check Kubernetes Pod SecurityContext for readOnlyRootFilesystem

Running secure workloads in Kubernetes can be challenging. Kubernetes enables engineers to configure the security features of containers using the securityContext field.... Read More
Featured
5 minute read
| April 14, 2022

The True Cost of Fixing Kubernetes Clusters: How Fairwinds Insights Can Save You Time and Money

Organizations adopting Kubernetes to increase the speed of software development are consistently encountering the same problem—a steep cost to repair defects and... Read More
Best Practices
4 minute read
| April 11, 2022

Kubernetes DevOps Tip #5: Why Setting imagePullPolicy to Always is More Necessary Than You Think

This blog will discuss the need for better practices around the Pull Policy of a Kubernetes container, which is set using the imagePullPolicy field in a pod specification.... Read More
General
5 minute read
| April 6, 2022

KubeCrash: Cloud Native Crash Courses

KubeCrash is a new virtual KubeCon co-located event for those who can’t attend KubeCon in person or are in “timezone-left-behinds.” Created by five companies with Kubernetes... Read More
Featured
12 minute read
| April 5, 2022

Fairwinds’ Open Source Projects for Kubernetes

Open source software is core to Fairwinds, providing Kubernetes support to our customers and the larger community. We work hard to build open source projects that help our... Read More
Featured
5 minute read
| March 31, 2022

Update on Pluto and How This Open Source Project Can Identify Deprecated APIs in Kubernetes 1.22

Here at Fairwinds, we rely on our open source projects to help customers and our community build the right Kubernetes architecture for their organization. One of our most... Read More
Open Source
2 minute read
| March 29, 2022

Polaris, Open Source Configuration Validation, Now in ValidKube

Fairwinds’ open source project, Polaris, helps users configuring workloads ensure Kubernetes best practices are followed. Contributing to the open source and Kubernetes... Read More
Featured
13 minute read
| March 22, 2022

Clover, PagerDuty and Fairwinds: Enabling Developers on Kubernetes

Listen as Rishi Malik from Clover Network, Tristan Bates from PagerDuty, Kendall Miller from Fairwinds and Danielle Cook from Fairwinds moderates a discussion on Kubernetes... Read More
Featured
6 minute read
| March 21, 2022

Correct Kubernetes Configuration is Key to Better Efficiency and Reliability

Although container security is often considered the most pressing topic in Kubernetes, it is inextricably linked to issues of efficiency and reliability, two key elements in... Read More
Featured
6 minute read
| March 9, 2022

The Truth About Proper Configuration Will Save Your Kubernetes Security Plan

When it comes to the cloud native and Kubernetes landscape, security is among the top concerns of modern practitioners. Along with reliability and efficiency, Kubernetes... Read More
News
2 minute read
| March 9, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 7.7.0 - 7.11.0: Spotlight on Navigation Improvements

Hello from Fairwinds! As usual, we have been working hard to continually upgrade the features and functionality of Fairwinds Insights, our Kubernetes security and governance... Read More
Featured
9 minute read
| March 3, 2022

4 Tips From Our Experience with Kubernetes SOC 2 Compliance

If you work in the operations or security space, you have likely heard of SOC 2 compliance, otherwise known as Service Organization Control. This set of compliance... Read More
5 minute read
| February 23, 2022

Poor Kubernetes Configuration Can Impact the Security of Your Clusters in Surprising Ways

Misconfigurations in the world of Kubernetes happen all the time. And they are a big deal, as improper configuration affects important factors like container security,... Read More
News
2 minute read
| February 17, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 7.2 - 7.6: Spotlight on Admission Controller Redesign

We have been busy working hard to improve the functionality and interface of our security and governance software, Fairwinds Insights. This set of February release notes... Read More
Featured
5 minute read
| February 15, 2022

The Secret to Running Scalable Kubernetes Clusters is Here

Over the past couple weeks, we’ve been running a series of blogs on the five key enablers of successful Kubernetes service ownership. From security to compliance to cost... Read More
Featured
7 minute read
| February 9, 2022

You Can Establish Reliable Kubernetes Clusters Without Losing Sleep

Full service ownership of Kubernetes, much like the tenets of DevSecOps, is a codifying process whereby all teams maintain complete control over their products and services.... Read More
Featured
5 minute read
| February 1, 2022

How Fairwinds Insights Compliance Self-Assessment Now Simplifies SOC 2

Fairwinds Insights, our security and governance software, helps managers responsible for compliance to automate, monitor and enforce policy guardrails. And today, we are... Read More
Featured
7 minute read
| January 27, 2022

Remember These Key Practices When Securing Your Kubernetes Workloads

To truly understand and appreciate the potential risks in your Kubernetes clusters, you need a strong set of best practices for securing sensitive workloads. Aside from... Read More
General
3 minute read
| January 25, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 6.7.0-7.1.0: Spotlight on Reducing Kubernetes Alert Fatigue

We are always working on new features for Fairwinds Insights based on our customer feedback. We recently made several changes to our software. From bug fixes to compliance... Read More
How to Kube
2 minute read
| January 21, 2022

CVE-2022-0185: How to Identify at Risk Kernel Versions in Your K8S Cluster

A high-severity vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, CVE-2022-0185, was announced this week. The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service (system... Read More
Featured
5 minute read
| January 19, 2022

A Kubernetes Overview Says Proper Configuration is Key to Saving Money

In our recent white paper, 5 Ways to Optimize Your Kubernetes Ownership, we discuss the myriad benefits associated with a robust service ownership model. Aside from... Read More
Featured
6 minute read
| January 18, 2022

How to Get Your Kubernetes Compliance Right From the Start

If you have been living in the cloud native world for a while, where Kubernetes is quickly becoming the gold standard for containerized workloads, you have likely heard of... Read More
Featured
7 minute read
| January 18, 2022

Spotlight on Karpenter, Goldilocks and Cluster Autoscaling with Open Source

At Fairwinds, we are dedicated to empowering our open source community. Through our own tooling, we work hard to give back to this valued group, building quality open source... Read More