Fairwinds Blog

Fairwinds Named a Cool Vendor in the Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Container Management

4 minute read | August 16, 2023

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...

Andy Suderman is lead R&D engineer at Fairwinds.

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

Open Source

10 minute read

| July 26, 2022

K8s Tutorial: Find Outdated Helm Charts with Nova

Making sure you have the most recent version of software you install in a Kubernetes cluster helps you avoid known security issues and have access to the most up-to-date... Read More

Open Source

8 minute read

| July 15, 2022

K8s Tutorial: Setting and Rightsizing Kubernetes Workloads with Goldilocks

A standard piece of advice for optimizing your Kubernetes cluster is to ensure that you set CPU and Memory Requests and Limits on every container. This seems simple, but how... Read More

How to Kube

5 minute read

| July 7, 2022

Find Deprecated and Removed APIs in Kubernetes: Intro to Pluto

Open Source

3 minute read

| June 6, 2022

Open Source Project: NOVA 3.1.0, Not Just For Helm Users Anymore!

Up until now, Fairwinds Nova was just a tool for Helm releases. While this has been exceptionally useful for us and other users over the last several years, we recognize that... Read More

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