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How to Choose: Benefits of Using Polaris vs. Fairwinds Insights?

6 minute read | June 22, 2021

The team at Fairwinds has managed hundreds of clusters for dozens of organizations, which gives us unique insight into the problems most organizations encounter in their...

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News
4 minute read
| July 22, 2021

Fairwinds Insights 5.0.0 Release Notes

In June and July we were hard at work on our Fairwinds Insights 5.0.0 release. The 5.0.0 release includes new updates related to Kubernetes security, policy, and... Read More
News
6 minute read
| July 20, 2021

How We Create an Organization Driven by Our Goals & Values at Fairwinds

There was a moment while deciding on focus for my MBA that I thought I should lean into HR. I am as fascinated by how humans work as I am about how technology works.... Read More
Best Practices
4 minute read
| July 15, 2021

An Intro to Kubernetes Best Practices: Start Your K8s Right

There’s no single right way to achieve success with Kubernetes, but as the cloud native ecosystem continues to expand rapidly, many organizations beginning their... Read More
Security
3 minute read
| July 13, 2021

Discover the Top 5 Kubernetes Security Mistakes You're (Probably) Making

It’s not an exaggeration to state that cloud native technology is revolutionizing how organizations are developing and delivering applications. As organizations... Read More
How to Kube
6 minute read
| June 30, 2021

K8s Clinic: How to Run Kubernetes Securely and Efficiently

Why Organizations Choose Kubernetes With the adoption of containers, software packaging is increasingly shifting left, which means (depending on your organization) that... Read More
General
5 minute read
| June 24, 2021

Why VPEs Need to Care About Kubernetes Configuration Audits

As a Vice President of Engineering (VPE), you have a big job. You’re responsible for realizing your company’s vision by developing and managing the engineering team,... Read More
Featured
6 minute read
| June 22, 2021

How to Choose: Benefits of Using Polaris vs. Fairwinds Insights?

The team at Fairwinds has managed hundreds of clusters for dozens of organizations, which gives us unique insight into the problems most organizations encounter in their... Read More
Security
5 minute read
| June 17, 2021

Security Is a Service Owner Problem, It’s Not Just for Your CISO

Security Can Be Too Top-Down Security can often feel like a top-down initiative — install an antivirus, do this training so you know how to avoid being phished — that kind... Read More
Best Practices
4 minute read
| June 15, 2021

What Does the GitHub Kubernetes Best Practices Badge Mean?

If you’ve been around GitHub land for any period of time, you’ll be familiar with a variety of badges on open source projects. The badges exist to demonstrate the... Read More
How to Kube
5 minute read
| June 10, 2021

Meeting the Challenges of Kubernetes Multi-cluster Management

Whether you are looking to separate security boundaries, isolate the impact of a scary configuration change, scale applications closer to customers, achieve data... Read More
Open Source
6 minute read
| June 8, 2021

What is Fairwinds’ Polaris? Kubernetes Open Source Configuration Validation

Kubernetes is an incredibly powerful platform for deploying software. The level of flexibility it provides can accommodate nearly any use case, no matter how unique. This... Read More
Security
6 minute read
| June 4, 2021

What is KSPM? An Intro to Kubernetes Security Posture Management

As Kubernetes adoption has continued to grow and we’ve seen Kubernetes increase in size and complexity, we’ve also seen a shortage of Kubernetes expertise and Kubernetes... Read More