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A Kubernetes Overview Says Proper Configuration is Key to Saving Money

5 minute read | January 19, 2022

In our recent white paper, 5 Ways to Optimize Your Kubernetes Ownership, we discuss the myriad benefits associated with a robust service ownership model. Aside from...

Bader Boland is a Senior Software Engineer at Fairwinds.

How to Kube

7 minute read

| May 4, 2021

How to create your first OPA custom policy in Fairwinds Insights

Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an extremely powerful tool. It’s quickly becoming one of my favorite tools to use. If you’re not familiar with OPA, I highly recommend checking... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read More