Fairwinds Blog

2026 Kubernetes Playbook: AI at Scale, Self‑Healing Clusters, & Growth

15 minute read | December 29, 2025

In 2026, the question isn’t whether Kubernetes wins – it already has. And yet, many organizations are running mission-critical workloads on a platform they still treat as...

Joe Pelletier is VP of strategy at Fairwinds, the Kubernetes enablement company.

Security

17 minute read

| June 1, 2023

SOC 2 Compliance for Kubernetes with Fairwinds Insights

As the pace of digital transformation accelerates, many organizations are adopting Kubernetes for managing their containerized workloads. While Kubernetes brings scalability... Read More

Best Practices

12 minute read

| May 11, 2023

How You Can Avoid Common Kubernetes Misconfigurations & Vulnerabilities

Securing workloads in Kubernetes is an important part of your cluster security overall. Your overall goal should be to ensure that your containers are running with minimal... Read More

Security

10 minute read

| April 13, 2023

How to Meet FedRAMP's Requirements for Container Vulnerability Scanning

The federal government continues to work to increase cybersecurity efforts in the United States, including, of course, in cloud environments. Specifically focused on cloud... Read More

General

8 minute read

| February 27, 2023

Scaling K8s Without Leaving Security and Operational Excellence Behind

Techstrong Research polled its community in 2022, asking DevOps, cloud-native cybersecurity, and digital transformation readers and viewers about their Kubernetes... Read More

Governance

27 minute read

| December 19, 2022

What is Kubernetes Governance?

Kubernetes governance is the set of policies and procedures organizations adopt to define how Kubernetes is managed and maintained, and it is an essential part of how... Read More

Security

2 minute read

| November 3, 2022

CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 OpenSSL Vulnerabilities: Scanning Container Images

On November 1st, 2022, OpenSSL announced a pair of High Severity vulnerabilities in version 3.0.0-3.0.6 of OpenSSL. The vulnerability is a buffer overflow that requires a... Read More

General

6 minute read

| October 25, 2022

Kubernetes Cost Allocation: Updates to Fairwinds Insights

Kubernetes workload cost allocation is hard. To illustrate it, let’s just take a simplistic view of the problem. Read More

Security

4 minute read

| September 1, 2022

Why Infrastructure-as-Code Scanning Matters for Kubernetes Configuration

Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the ability to provision and manage infrastructure using a configuration language. It offers the repeatability, transparency, and testing of... Read More

Open Source

4 minute read

| July 12, 2022

Practical Applications for Fairwinds Polaris' Automated Remediation

The core of Fairwinds’ mission is to enable teams using Kubernetes to ship applications faster with less risk. Platform engineering leaders are at the forefront of this:... Read More

Security

3 minute read

| May 24, 2022

Kubernetes Vulnerability Management: Keep Third-party Images Up-to-Date

The Kubernetes ecosystem is built on a vast array of open source technologies. Kubernetes itself is one of the largest open source projects, and a community of tools and... Read More

Featured

7 minute read

| May 9, 2022

NSA Hardening Guide: How Can Fairwinds Insights Strengthen Your Authentication & Authorization Practices?

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,... Read More

Best Practices

4 minute read

| April 19, 2022

Don’t Forget to Check Kubernetes Pod SecurityContext for readOnlyRootFilesystem

Running secure workloads in Kubernetes can be challenging. Kubernetes enables engineers to configure the security features of containers using the securityContext field.... Read More