Fairwinds Blog

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

6 minute read | June 20, 2024

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

Andy Suderman is the CTO at Fairwinds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best Practices

4 minute read

| April 11, 2022

Kubernetes DevOps Tip #5: Why Setting imagePullPolicy to Always is More Necessary Than You Think

This blog will discuss the need for better practices around the Pull Policy of a Kubernetes container, which is set using the imagePullPolicy field in a pod specification.... Read More