Fairwinds Blog

Easing Tension Between Kubernetes Development, Security and Operations

3 minute read | May 22, 2020

As organizations move to develop mission-critical applications in Kubernetes, they need a way to ensure that configuration best practices are applied consistently...

Developer Hub

5 minute read

| April 3, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practices for Security

Kubernetes is the dominant container orchestration solution – adoption now stands at 86% of the market. The genius of Kubernetes is its ability to provide you with a... Read More

Developer Hub

5 minute read

| March 3, 2020

The Journey from Heroku to Kubernetes in 5 Steps

Using Heroku is like living in a fancy housing development with an HOA; it’s safe, predictable, structured — and comes at a premium. Read More

Developer Hub

4 minute read

| February 20, 2020

Kubernetes Strategies to Make Your Team More Efficient

Applications have numerous stakeholders — and sometimes those stakeholders come into conflict. Read More

Developer Hub

4 minute read

| January 29, 2020

Optimizing Development Operations to Overcome Employee Turnover

When the DevOps Director leaves your company, they take their knowledge of your development operations infrastructure with them. If your DevOps infrastructure is not... Read More

Developer Hub

4 minute read

| December 20, 2019

Container Orchestration Essentials

So you've decided Kubernetes as a container orchestration system is the right move for your application. Congratulations and welcome. You've made the right decision and... Read More

Developer Hub

6 minute read

| December 12, 2019

How-to Address Kubernetes Cluster Security

Building a working, reliable Kubernetes cluster is hard. Building it securely is even harder. Often the easiest way to get things working is to ignore security... Read More

Developer Hub

4 minute read

| November 13, 2019

How to Create, View and Destroy a Pod in Kubernetes

In our How-to-Kube series, we’d like to begin by covering the pod basics. Like service, volume, and namespace, a pod is a basic Kubernetes object. A pod is the smallest... Read More

Thoughts

5 minute read

| October 16, 2019

Heroku Vs. Kubernetes: The Big Differences You Should Know

At first glance, a Heroku vs Kubernetes comparison might seem odd. They're starkly different technologies and target completely separate groups. One is designed to get... Read More

Recent

9 minute read

| July 25, 2019

Announcing Polaris Snapshot

Two months ago at Fairwinds (formerly ReactiveOps), we launched Polaris , an open source dashboard for auditing Kubernetes workload configuration. We saw a great... Read More