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Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility

6 minute read | April 17, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced extended support prices for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), prompting some businesses to reevaluate how they manage their cloud...

Bader Boland is a Senior Software Engineer at Fairwinds.

How to Kube

9 minute read

| May 4, 2021

How to create your first OPA custom policy in Fairwinds Insights

Fairwinds Polaris has reached version 4.0, with some awesome new features! (For those keeping score, we jumped past 2.0 pretty quickly due to some breaking changes). Read More

Best Practices

7 minute read

| February 5, 2021

Kubernetes Multi Cluster Visibility: Why & How to Get It

If you are managing a team of engineers using Kubernetes, how do you know what’s really happening in your clusters? That’s a problem we hear about a lot. Read More

How to Kube

3 minute read

| January 6, 2021

How to Identify Docker :latest Tag in Kubernetes Clusters

As your team updates an app with new features or solves for bugs, you’ll be pushing the latest image to your Docker registry. In Kubernetes, Docker's latest tag is applied by... Read More

How to Kube

4 minute read

| December 22, 2020

Kubernetes How to: Ensure imagePullPolicy set to Always

Relying on cached versions of a Docker image can become a security vulnerability. By default, an image will be pulled if it isn't already cached on the node attempting to run... Read More

How to Kube

2 minute read

| December 21, 2020

Check Kubernetes Pod SecurityContext for readOnlyRootFilesystem

Kubernetes pod security policies enable fine-grained controls around pod creation and updates. securityContext defines a set of restraints on the runtime of a pod. Read More

How to Kube

5 minute read

| December 9, 2020

Kubernetes CVE-2020-8554: Instructions to Identify if You’re Impacted

A new medium severity CVE has been discovered (CVE-2020-8554) affecting multitenant Kubernetes clusters. If a potential attacker can already create or edit services and pods,... Read More

How to Kube

4 minute read

| September 10, 2020

OPA Alternative: A Stepped Approach to Kubernetes Policy Enforcement

Recently we’ve had a number of conversations around Open Policy Agent (OPA) where Kubernetes users are intrigued and want to use it, but are attempting to figure out the best... Read More