Fairwinds Blog

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,...

Andy Suderman is lead R&D engineer at Fairwinds.

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

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

How to Kube

2 minute read

| September 17, 2021

Kubernetes CVE, Symlink Exchange: Identify Containers Running as Root

Symlink Exchange Can Allow Host Filesystem Access Read More

Open Source

6 minute read

| September 13, 2021

How to Choose: Benefits of Using Goldilocks vs. Fairwinds Insights

At Fairwinds, we’ve spent the last few years managing hundreds of clusters for dozens of organizations, which gives us considerable knowledge about and insight into the... Read More

Security

8 minute read

| July 27, 2021

Validating Container Security with Fairwinds Insights

Overview: What Is Container Security? Container security protects the integrity of containers, including the applications within them and the infrastructure they rely on.... Read More

4 minute read

| March 10, 2021

Eliminate The Registry As A Single Point of Kubernetes Failure Using Saffire

Has this ever happened to you? You're running a kops cluster with flannel as the CNI, and Quay experiences a day-long outage. Suddenly, the well-oiled machine that is your... Read More

How to Kube

1 minute read

| February 25, 2021

How to Use Fairwinds Insights to Identify Kubernetes Cluster Misconfiguration

See a video from Andy Suderman, ‎Principal Engineer at Fairwinds on how he uses Fairwinds Insights daily to gain visibility into Kubernetes cluster misconfiguration. Read More

How to Kube

10 minute read

| December 2, 2020

How to Kubernetes: Use Conftest to Audit Infrastructure-As-Code

At Fairwinds, we leverage OPA (Open Policy Agent) in our open source product Polaris, as well as in our SaaS product,Fairwinds Insights. As our dev team implemented these... Read More

Open Source

4 minute read

| October 6, 2020

What's New in Goldilocks 3.0.0

We recently released version 3.0.0 of Goldilocks with a lot of really big changes. I wanted to take a minute to showcase the hard work that Harrison Katz has done over the... Read More

How to Kube

14 minute read

| September 9, 2020

Hands-On With Agones and Google Cloud Game Servers

I recently had the pleasure of exploring Agones and Google Cloud Game Servers (GCGS), and I wanted to share my experience. Read More

Developer Hub

3 minute read

| March 20, 2020

How to Kube: KMS Secrets

Security is a top concern for anyone on the web, but especially for those using Kubernetes. Without any pre-configured security settings on the platform, it's up to you to... Read More

1 minute read

| March 16, 2020

How-to-Kube: KMS Secrets Backend

In this segment, Fairwinds Lead R&D Engineer, Andy Suderman, demonstrates how to encrypt all of the secrets in your Kubernetes cluster using an Amazon provided KMS Key. Read More