Fairwinds Blog

Kubernetes: The Cost of Doing It Wrong

6 minute read | February 20, 2023

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Security

7 minute read

| May 25, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Check Host Port Configuration

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

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 Basics Tutorial: Validating OPA Policies in the CLI

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