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...

Robert Brennan is the Vice President of Product Development at Fairwinds.

Policy

2 minute read

| April 23, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 15.5.1-15.6.0: Policy Mappings

This month, we’ve made some updates to Fairwinds Insights that make it easier for you to manage policy and guardrails at scale across multiple clusters. Let’s explore these... Read More

Best Practices

8 minute read

| April 4, 2024

How to Create, View, and Destroy a Pod in Kubernetes

In our How-to-Kube series, we began by covering the pod basics. Similar to service, volume, and namespace, a pod is a basic Kubernetes object. A pod is a set of one or more... Read More

General

4 minute read

| March 19, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 15.1.1-15.5.0 App Groups Auto-Updates

This month, we’ve been working hard to make improvements to Fairwinds Insights that will make it easier to use, so you can make informed decisions about your Kubernetes... Read More

General

3 minute read

| February 20, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 15.0-15.2: Aggregated Action Items

This month, we’re pleased to share new updates in Fairwinds Insights, including aggregated Action Items and admission request resolutions. Let’s explore these new... Read More

Security

8 minute read

| January 30, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Now Enables You to Find Critical GKE Vulnerability

The critical vulnerability recently disclosed by cloud security firm Orca impacts Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and could allow threat actors with a Google account to take... Read More

General

5 minute read

| January 23, 2024

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 14.8 through 14.13.4: GitHub Comments

We took a break from sending updates in December, but we didn’t stop making improvements to Fairwinds Insights! This month, we’re delighted to share some new updates in... Read More

General

4 minute read

| November 21, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 14.4-14.7: Reliability & Costs Updates

This month we are happy to share some exciting updates in Fairwinds Insights, including an update that improves the reliability of deleting action items, which helps to... Read More

General

14 minute read

| October 26, 2023

Top 5 Tips for Better Kubernetes Self Service

When you've got a medium- to large-sized company, you need a platform to help your application teams ship code into production in a standardized way. This ensures that your... Read More

6 minute read

| October 3, 2023

Expanding Your Kubernetes Policy Control Options with Kyverno Integration

Kubernetes, as many already know, is a Greek word that means “helmsman” or “pilot” in English — a fitting name for the platform we use to manage containerized workloads and... Read More

Open Source

6 minute read

| August 10, 2023

Nova Contributors: Help Us Scan YAML templates and Ignore Non-Stable Versions

Nova is an open source project that makes it easy for you to scan your cluster for installed Helm charts, then it cross-checks them against all known Helm repositories. If it... Read More

Open Source

8 minute read

| August 3, 2023

Upload Polaris Findings to Fairwinds Insights to Access More Capabilities

Kubernetes is increasingly becoming mainstream, the industry standard for next-generation workloads and digital transformation. In 2022, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation... Read More

Policy

8 minute read

| June 15, 2023

Fairwinds Jamathon: Unlocking the Power of OpenAI: Creating OPA Policies for Kubernetes

Fairwinds hosts an annual Jamathon amongst employees. It’s a fun, several week program that gives every person the chance to try something new, work with different teams, and... Read More