Fairwinds Blog

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...

General

8 minute read

| September 27, 2023

Introducing Action Items Progress Reporting

Platform engineers and developers alike already know that Kubernetes is complex, and it can be hard to track and document improvements in this ephemeral environment. To... Read More

How to Kube

10 minute read

| August 1, 2023

How & Why You Should Install the Admission Controller in Insights

In the world of containerized everything, Kubernetes has emerged as a platform to automate the process of deployment, scaling, and management of these applications and... Read More

General

6 minute read

| June 28, 2023

New Capabilities in Fairwinds Insights: Custom Fields and Issue Types

If you are managing development teams using Kubernetes, you need to be able to easily find, triage, and fix problems quickly. You likely already have existing tools in place... Read More

Governance

6 minute read

| June 6, 2023

Now Available: Automated Compliance Evidence Collection in Fairwinds Insights

Adopting cloud-native technologies like containers and Kubernetes presents new compliance challenges. Since containers are ephemeral in nature, determining if an environment... Read More

General

9 minute read

| May 30, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Integrate Slack and Fairwinds Insights

Many organizations today use Slack, across teams, departments, countries, and even continents. Particularly useful in a remote or hybrid work environment, Slack improves... Read More

Governance

6 minute read

| April 20, 2023

Now Available: NSA Hardening Guidance Compliance Report in Fairwinds Insights

The Kubernetes Hardening Guide published by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) provides comprehensive guidance... Read More

General

5 minute read

| March 29, 2023

Fix Your Kubernetes Misconfigurations Faster with Automated Fix Pull Requests

We're excited to announce the launch of our latest Fairwinds Insights feature, Automated Fix Pull Requests (PRs). You can automatically fix many Kubernetes misconfigurations... Read More

Security

3 minute read

| February 14, 2023

New Fairwinds Insights Release: Terraform Scanning

When it comes to security issues, time is of the essence. Platform Engineering teams need to be able to catch issues as early in the deployment process as possible and, at... Read More

General

14 minute read

| January 27, 2023

Get Started with Fairwinds Insights (Free Tier), Kubernetes Governance Platform

Fairwinds Insights is software for Kubernetes platform engineers to integrate into internal developer platforms with built-in and customized Kubernetes best practices that... Read More

General

8 minute read

| November 8, 2022

6 Kubernetes Cost Control Strategies You Need in Place for 2023

Organizations have increasingly undertaken cloud migration initiatives, moving from on-premises data centers to adopting containers and Kubernetes to change their... Read More

Featured

4 minute read

| September 14, 2022

New Fairwinds Insights Releases: Azure DevOps Integration & Secret Encryption

If you are managing a team of developers using Kubernetes, no doubt you are running into some scaling issues - not around supporting end-users, but around easily being able... Read More

Security

4 minute read

| August 4, 2022

Mitigate Kubernetes Risk with Vulnerabilities Explorer

For DevOps security leaders, knowing what vulnerabilities exist in Kubernetes clusters is critical, but only part of the problem. Once risks are identified, a plan of action... Read More