Fairwinds Blog

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes Part 3: 6 K8s Reliability Mistakes

7 minute read | April 28, 2021

As we outlined in our first post in this series, there are some things that you should simply never, ever do in Kubernetes. Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at The...

Robert Brennan is Director of Open Source Software at Fairwinds.

Featured

6 minute read

| April 13, 2021

An Easier Way to Audit your Kubernetes Infrastructure: Self-hosted Fairwinds Insights

We’re excited to announce that a self-hosted release of Fairwinds Insights is now in beta! Read More

Open Source

7 minute read

| February 25, 2021

Polaris vs. KubeLinter

Identifying Kubernetes misconfiguration can help you ensure your clusters are secure, efficient and reliable. Polaris, by Fairwinds, is an open source tool that our team... Read More

Featured

7 minute read

| February 24, 2021

Fairwinds Insights Reaches 3.0

I’m excited to announce the next major release of Fairwinds Insights! Read More

How to Kube

3 minute read

| February 11, 2021

Manage Open Policy Agent (OPA) Consistently

Last week the CNCF announced the graduation of Open Policy Agent (OPA), an open source, general-purpose policy engine that enables unified, context-aware policy... Read More

Featured

16 minute read

| January 13, 2021

Open Source vs Commercial Software: Why You Can’t (Always) Afford Free

When building an application, often the most important technical decisions come down to what to build yourself, and where to rely on third parties. Thanks to a vibrant... Read More

General

5 minute read

| November 17, 2020

Kubernetes vs. Status Quo

A lot of software organizations are running on legacy cloud or on-prem infrastructure, wondering if now is the right time to move towards Kubernetes. But when is the right... Read More

General

6 minute read

| October 20, 2020

Fairwinds Insights: CI Pipeline to Protect Your Kubernetes Clusters

About a year ago, we built Fairwinds Insights to make our lives easier. We were managing hundreds of clusters across dozens of organizations, and needed a way to keep... Read More

General

9 minute read

| October 20, 2020

Managing OPA Policies with Fairwinds Insights

At Fairwinds, we’ve managed hundreds of Kubernetes clusters across dozens of organizations. In our efforts to keep our customers’ environments running securely,... Read More

How to Kube

6 minute read

| September 2, 2020

Kubernetes Controllers Basics

If you’re new to Kubernetes, one of the first concepts you’ll want to familiarize yourself with is the Controller. Most Kubernetes users do not create Pods directly;... Read More

Open Source

9 minute read

| August 18, 2020

Gemini: Automate Backups of PersistentVolumes in Kubernetes

Persistent Storage is Hard Read More

Open Source

7 minute read

| July 28, 2020

Nova Open Source Tool - Monitor Helm for New Releases

When running a production Kubernetes cluster, one of the most important (and burdensome) tasks is keeping everything up-to-date. Kubernetes itself cuts quarterly releases,... Read More

Best Practices

11 minute read

| July 9, 2020

5 Problems with Kubernetes Cost Estimation Strategies

Estimating how much you are spending (or wasting) on a particular Kubernetes workload is hard. The good news is that there are some reasonable strategies for estimating... Read More