Fairwinds Blog

AI Runs Best On Cloud Native—But Who's Managing the Kubernetes Platform?

8 minute read | May 27, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer an experimental side project. It's reshaping industries, the world we live in and becoming central to product innovation and...

Best Practices

11 minute read

| July 3, 2025

Why Your Kubernetes Platform Needs Both Freedom and Control to Succeed

Building and managing a Kubernetes-based platform for multiple development teams is a complex project. On one side, you want to empower developers with the flexibility to... Read More

Security

12 minute read

| June 25, 2025

Is Your Container OS Insecurity Making Your K8s Infrastructure Less Secure?

The decision to adopt a purpose-built container operating system (OS) versus maintaining a standard OS across legacy and cloud-native systems depends on your organization’s... Read More

General

8 minute read

| June 20, 2025

Enterprise Kubernetes Explained: How to Leverage K8s Effectively

Enterprise Kubernetes management is at the heart of modern cloud-native strategies, enabling organizations to deploy, scale, and govern applications effectively. In 2025,... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

8 minute read

| June 13, 2025

A Guide to Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service Shared Responsibility Model

Kubernetes is powerful, but managing it in-house can be a major drain on your engineering resources. That’s why many organizations are turning to Fairwinds Managed... Read More

General

4 minute read

| June 9, 2025

9 AI Infrastructure Terms: Must-Know Definitions

With the rise of AI across every industry, the buzzwords are flying fast—AI infrastructure, infrastructure for AI workloads, autonomous infrastructure, and more. The problem?... Read More

How to Kube

7 minute read

| June 5, 2025

Kubernetes Infrastructure Design Assessment: Optimizing Your Cloud-Native Foundation

A Kubernetes Infrastructure Design Assessment is an important step for organizations seeking to ensure reliable, cost effective, and secure infrastructure. At Fairwinds, a... Read More

Cost

9 minute read

| June 3, 2025

Improving Cost Efficiency with Karpenter 1.0: An Upgrade Guide

Karpenter has emerged as a game-changer for Kubernetes cluster management, offering dynamic node provisioning and cost optimization. Originally created to change how... Read More

Featured

8 minute read

| May 27, 2025

AI Runs Best On Cloud Native—But Who's Managing the Kubernetes Platform?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer an experimental side project. It's reshaping industries, the world we live in and becoming central to product innovation and... Read More

General

6 minute read

| May 22, 2025

Cloud Agnosticism is a Myth. Long Live Cloud Agnosticism!

The concept of cloud agnosticism—building applications and services that can operate seamlessly across multiple cloud service providers (CSPs)—has long been hailed as a way... Read More

Best Practices

9 minute read

| May 15, 2025

Balancing Security, Compliance, and Visibility in Kubernetes Infrastructure

The shift to cloud-native infrastructure has introduced a difficult dilemma for many security and compliance teams: do compliance requirements and the desire for visibility... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

7 minute read

| May 8, 2025

How Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service Unlocks Immediate Value

In this digital-first world, organizations are constantly under pressure to deliver software and services faster, more reliably, and at greater scale. Platform teams, often... Read More

Open Source

10 minute read

| May 1, 2025

Kubernetes Resource Optimization & Best Practices with Goldilocks

Kubernetes is now the industry standard for orchestrating containerized workloads, but efficient resource management remains a challenge for many organizations. It’s... Read More

General

8 minute read

| April 24, 2025

The What, Why, How, & Which of Selecting a Container Management Tool

Containerization is the backbone of modern cloud-native application development, which means that managing containers effectively is as important as it ever has been.... Read More

General

8 minute read

| April 17, 2025

Time to Migrate from On-Prem to Cloud? What You Need to Know

Migrating from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud is an important step for any business seeking to modernize operations, improve scalability, and (potentially) reduce... Read More

How to Kube

6 minute read

| April 11, 2025

Is Your Kubernetes Infrastructure Resilient? Test It with a Chaos Day

We all know the feeling: the pit in your stomach when a critical application goes down (and you have no idea what went wrong). In today's always-on world, downtime isn't just... Read More

Security

9 minute read

| April 4, 2025

Cloud Native Security: How to Protect Your Kubernetes Infrastructure

As organizations increasingly adopt cloud-native technologies, securing Kubernetes infrastructure has become more important than ever. Cloud-native security encompasses... Read More

How to Kube

6 minute read

| March 28, 2025

Why Cause Chaos? The Benefits of Having a “Chaos Day”

“The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” - Robert Burns, Scottish poet Read More

General

6 minute read

| March 20, 2025

Can’t Miss Keynotes & Tech Talks at KubeCon Europe 2025

I can’t believe that KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 is just around the corner! Once again, I’m excited to meet up with my friends and colleagues again at this event... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

6 minute read

| March 14, 2025

How to Keep Kubernetes Infrastructure Running When You Lost Your SRE

Losing a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) can be a serious challenge for organizations relying on Kubernetes. SREs are crucial for maintaining the reliability and performance... Read More

How to Kube

8 minute read

| March 6, 2025

How to Streamline Kubernetes Upgrades: How Often Should You Update

Kubernetes may well be the de facto standard for container orchestration, but keeping your clusters up-to-date can still be a difficult task. Figuring out how to streamline... Read More

General

8 minute read

| February 28, 2025

How to Prove to Auditors that You've Remediated CVEs in Kubernetes

Today, the cybersecurity landscape is changing quickly with the increase of AI capabilities used by attackers and defenders alike. In this environment, effectively managing... Read More

How to Kube

5 minute read

| February 27, 2025

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

Managed Kubernetes

10 minute read

| February 19, 2025

Migrating from kOps to EKS: A Technical Guide for When & Why to Switch

As Kubernetes continues to mature, so do the tools we use to manage it. In this blog post, we'll explore the process of upgrading from Kubernetes Operations (kOps) to Amazon... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

9 minute read

| February 11, 2025

10 Questions to Help You Decide Whether to Hire an SRE or Managed KaaS

Deciding between managing Kubernetes in-house or partnering with a managed service provider can be a difficult choice for organizations seeking to optimize their cloud... Read More

General

8 minute read

| February 5, 2025

Are You Still Using VMware Tanzu? (And Is Now the Time to Migrate?)

Many organizations used VMware Tanzu when they were seeking to modernize their applications and infrastructure. This suite of products and services was designed to help... Read More

General

5 minute read

| January 31, 2025

Is Kubernetes the Right Strategic Fit for Your Organization?

As organizations continue to explore Kubernetes adoption, it's essential to view it not just as a technical decision, but a strategic one that directly impacts business... Read More

General

7 minute read

| January 14, 2025

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 16.2.41 - 16.3.30: Integrations, Exports, & Bulk Ticket Creation

Over the last couple of months, we’ve been working on making a number of significant updates to Fairwinds Insights. We’ve delivered some great new functionality that our ... Read More

How to Kube

7 minute read

| January 9, 2025

Stay on kOps or Move to EKS? 6 Reasons Tech Leaders May Want to Switch

Kubernetes recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, and it sure has come a long way. Despite its renowned complexity, K8s has since become the de facto standard for... Read More

How to Kube

9 minute read

| January 3, 2025

Kubernetes in 2025: Are You Ready For These Top 5 Trends & Predictions?

Now that Kubernetes has turned 10, it has firmly established itself as a cornerstone of cloud-native deployment. That means it’s finally fair to request ten years of... Read More

Security

9 minute read

| December 23, 2024

The Top 5 High & Critical Kubernetes CVEs of 2024: Have You Patched Them Yet?

Keeping up to date with critical vulnerabilities related to Kubernetes can be challenging for a variety of reasons. The biggest one may be related to Kubernetes itself; it’s... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

6 minute read

| December 19, 2024

Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service: A Force Multiplier for Your Tech Team

Kubernetes revolutionized container orchestration, but managing it is still a complex and time-consuming process. That’s why Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service offerings have... Read More

Featured

7 minute read

| December 19, 2024

What Is EKS Auto Mode and Will It Fully Manage My Kubernetes?

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon introduced EKS Auto Mode, marking a significant expansion in AWS management of Kubernetes clusters, moving beyond the cluster itself. While EKS Auto... Read More

Best Practices

8 minute read

| December 19, 2024

6 Kubernetes Cost Control Strategies You Need in Place for 2025

Organizations have increasingly undertaken cloud migration initiatives, moving from on-premises data centers to adopting containers and Kubernetes to change their... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

7 minute read

| December 16, 2024

When & Why Handing Over the Keys to Your Kubernetes Infrastructure Makes Sense

In the constantly maturing landscape of cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes reigns as the de facto standard for container orchestration. However, managing Kubernetes... Read More

Best Practices

16 minute read

| December 12, 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

15 minute read

| December 3, 2024

What Do You Need To Know When Upgrading Kubernetes?

Keeping your Kubernetes infrastructure up-to-date is critical for security, compliance, stability, and performance, and it usually gives your cluster feature enhancements as... Read More

News

4 minute read

| November 26, 2024

AWS re:Invent 2024: Optimize Your Kubernetes with Fairwinds and NetApp

AWS re:Invent 2024 is next week, right after a late Thanksgiving when we’re kicking off the last few weeks of a busy year. For many organizations, now is the time to review... Read More

Best Practices

9 minute read

| November 20, 2024

It's Time To Seriously Talk About Disaster Recovery

It’s always a good time to reflect on something that should send shivers down the spine of any organization: disaster recovery. As climate-related disruptions (most recently,... Read More

Security

5 minute read

| November 20, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 16.1.11 - 16.2.40: Latest Updates to Vulnerability Mapping

Over the last few months, we’ve been working on making a number of meaningful updates to Fairwinds Insights. We’ve delivered some great new functionality that our Insights... Read More

8 minute read

| November 6, 2024

Top 5 Talks We’re Excited About at KubeCon 2024

I can’t believe that KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 is nearly here! I’m looking forward to meeting up with my friends and colleagues at this event dedicated to... Read More

Open Source

8 minute read

| October 11, 2024

Exploring Goldilocks: ‘Just Right’ Resource Management

Managing resource requests and limits in Kubernetes can be challenging, especially for teams that are new to container orchestration or scaling complex workloads. But without... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

7 minute read

| October 3, 2024

Top 6 Lessons Learned Managing Kubernetes for SMBs

In the fast-growing landscape of cloud computing, Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration platform that transformed how organizations deploy and manage applications... Read More

News

5 minute read

| September 24, 2024

Join KubeCrash Fall 2024 for Platform Engineering the Cloud Native Way

I’m excited to be back at KubeCrash this fall! Mark your calendars to join us on Wednesday, October 9th starting at 10 AM ET, as KubeCrash pulls together a day packed with... Read More

Cost

7 minute read

| September 19, 2024

5 Kubernetes Cost Efficiency Strategies for DevOps and FinOps Leaders

Kubernetes is now an essential tool for many organizations as they shift to cloud-native infrastructure, enabling flexibility and scalability in managing applications. With... Read More

Best Practices

11 minute read

| September 12, 2024

4 Best Practices for Leveraging Cloud-Native Infrastructure for AI Workloads

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest buzzwords these days, dominating headlines and rocking the stock market. Many companies have already added AI functionality... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

6 minute read

| September 5, 2024

5 Lessons Learned Managing Kubernetes in Enterprise Organizations

Now the recognized standard for container orchestration, Kubernetes has revolutionized how organizations deploy and manage applications and services. However, deploying... Read More

Best Practices

13 minute read

| August 28, 2024

Top 10 Lessons Learned from Managing Kubernetes from the Trenches

Welcome to our deep dive into the world of Kubernetes, where we share some of the top lessons our site reliability engineers (SREs) have learned from years of managing this... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

7 minute read

| August 20, 2024

What You Get with AKS, EKS, GKE vs. Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service

Managed Kubernetes is a service offered by cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (Azure), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that simplifies the... Read More

General

5 minute read

| August 9, 2024

Kubernetes Turns 10: A Ditty Dedicated to a Decade of Container Orchestration

It’s hard to believe, but Kubernetes, our favorite container orchestration tool, turned ten this year! It feels like just yesterday when it was just an internal project at... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

6 minute read

| August 7, 2024

How Fairwinds Delivers On EKS Internally & the AWS EKS Delivery Designation

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Delivery designation is a specialized program designed to validate AWS Partners that have experience, deep technical expertise, and... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

5 minute read

| August 1, 2024

How an EdTech Company Focused on Core Engineering & Deployed to EKS

For one education technology company, the journey to Kubernetes began out of necessity. Originally, the company relied on Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) as a... Read More

General

5 minute read

| July 24, 2024

Deploying AI/ML Workloads? GPU-Enabled Kubernetes Is the Right Fit

It seems like everyone is talking about artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) these days. As more organizations seek to incorporate AI and ML into their... Read More

General

10 minute read

| July 16, 2024

Who Owns Kubernetes? Dive Into the Teams and the Expertise They Bring

Kubernetes is more than just a technical tool — it's a critical element of modern IT infrastructure that supports containerized applications at scale. However, understanding... Read More

General

7 minute read

| July 9, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 15.6.1 - 16.1.10: Latest Updates

Over the last few months, we’ve been working on making a number of updates to Fairwinds Insights to make it simpler for users to manage groupings of Kubernetes resources and... Read More

General

9 minute read

| June 26, 2024

Choosing Your Kubernetes Cloud Provider: The Pros and Cons of GKE

Kubernetes was released over ten years ago by Google as an open source project to improve container orchestration. While several cloud providers offer managed Kubernetes... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

6 minute read

| June 20, 2024

When Should You Bring in a Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service Provider?

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, Kubernetes is a cornerstone technology for container orchestration. As organizations increasingly use Kubernetes, assessing Read More

General

11 minute read

| June 11, 2024

Choosing Your Kubernetes Cloud Provider: The Pros and Cons of EKS

As more and more organizations shift to cloud-native environments, they have increasingly chosen to rely on Kubernetes for container orchestration since its introduction ten... Read More

General

8 minute read

| June 6, 2024

Reflecting on 10 Years of Kubernetes: A Decade of Innovation

Since Kubernetes turns ten this year, I spent some time reflecting on how Kubernetes completely redefined my career. Eight years ago, I was racking servers, running Puppet... Read More

Best Practices

6 minute read

| May 30, 2024

How Old Are Your Kubernetes Nodes?

How old are your Kubernetes nodes? Most often, people don’t know the answer to this question, or if they do, they know that “most” of their nodes are a certain age, and some... Read More

How to Kube

6 minute read

| May 23, 2024

Deep Dive: How to Improve Kubernetes Management with IaC Tools

In container orchestration, Kubernetes has become the go-to solution for deploying and managing containerized applications at scale. Ten years after Kubernetes was made... Read More

General

6 minute read

| May 15, 2024

Choosing Your Kubernetes Cloud Provider: The Pros and Cons of AKS

In the evolving cloud-native world, Kubernetes has become the gold standard for container orchestration over the past decade. While there are multiple cloud providers that... Read More

General

10 minute read

| May 9, 2024

Answering Your Top 9 Questions About Monitoring in Kubernetes

There are many things you can monitor in Kubernetes but you need to understand what is mission-critical in terms of monitoring. In a recent webinar, we explored what you... Read More

Governance

14 minute read

| April 30, 2024

An Introduction to FinOps Governance: How to Get Started

FinOps, a portmanteau of Finance and DevOps, is a strategic framework created to help companies understand and manage their cloud costs, enabling greater efficiency in cloud... Read More

Policy

2 minute read

| April 23, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 15.5.1-15.6.0: Policy Mappings

This month, we’ve made some updates to Fairwinds Insights that make it easier for you to manage policy and guardrails at scale across multiple clusters. Let’s explore these... Read More

Best Practices

36 minute read

| April 22, 2024

A Step-by-Step Guide to Securely Upgrading Your EKS Clusters

As an agile open source project, Kubernetes continues to evolve, as does the cloud computing landscape. Keeping up with the latest versions isn’t practical for many... Read More

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

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

5 minute read

| May 25, 2023

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

One of the questions that I get most frequently from our clients at Fairwinds is “How do we know what to set our resource requests and limits to?” Goldilocks is a Kubernetes... 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

14 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

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

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