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

7 minute read | May 9, 2022

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,...

General

7 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

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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 38-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

What Does it Really Cost to Fix Your Kubernetes Clusters?

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

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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