Fairwinds Blog

When Should You Bring in a Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service Provider?

6 minute read | June 20, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, Kubernetes is a cornerstone technology for container orchestration. As organizations increasingly use Kubernetes, assessing

Security

5 minute read

| June 5, 2024

Kubernetes Basics Tutorial: Ensure Containers Do Not Run As Root

A container is a unit of software that brings code and all of its dependencies together, making it possible to run the application quickly and reliably in different computing... Read More

Best Practices

36 minute read

| April 22, 2024

A Step-by-Step Guide to Securely Upgrading Your EKS Clusters

As an agile open source project, Kubernetes continues to evolve, as does the cloud computing landscape. Keeping up with the latest versions isn’t practical for many... Read More

Best Practices

12 minute read

| April 5, 2024

5 Ways You Can Diagnose & Prevent OOMKilled Errors in Kubernetes

Learn some of the steps you can take to diagnose an OOMKilled (Out of Memory) error in a Linux-based system. Out of memory errors in Kubernetes usually occur when a container... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

4 minute read

| April 2, 2024

How to Escape the 3 AM Page as a Kubernetes Site Reliability Engineer

It’s Saturday night. You’re out to dinner with friends. Suddenly, a familiar tune emits from your pocket. Dread fills you as you fish your phone out of your pocket and unlock... Read More

10 minute read

| October 24, 2023

AMA with K8s Experts: Learn from Real-Life Pitfalls & Success Stories

We hear it all the time: Kubernetes is great, but it's complicated. But the consensus is that despite the complexity, Kubernetes is worth the effort. We recently had a panel... Read More

General

5 minute read

| September 29, 2023

Your Questions on Polaris: Open Source Configuration Validation for Kubernetes

There are many ways to configure Kubernetes and the workloads that it runs, and unfortunately, many of them are dangerous. It's far too easy to introduce problems related to... Read More

General

11 minute read

| September 21, 2023

Building a Kubernetes Platform: How to Handle Cost Management & Reporting

Platforms, sometimes called internal developer platforms, are a unified infrastructure that allows all the development teams you have in your company, whether it be two or 20... Read More

Best Practices

7 minute read

| August 24, 2023

What Not to Monitor and What Not to Alert On in Kubernetes

Kubernetes, the de-facto container orchestrator, offers considerable flexibility and power. But monitoring every single thing in Kubernetes can become overwhelming quickly!... Read More

General

11 minute read

| July 18, 2023

Building a Kubernetes Platform: What You Need to Monitor in K8s and Why

Lots of people are talking about platforms, frequently talking about it as an IDP or internal developer platform. Essentially what this means is that you have a unified... Read More

Open Source

7 minute read

| July 13, 2023

Answering Your Goldilocks Questions About How HPA and VPA Work Together

Kubernetes, the open source platform for managing containerized workloads, provides you with a framework for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Let’s... Read More

10 minute read

| May 16, 2023

Building a Kubernetes Platform: A Comprehensive Guide to CI/CD Deployment

Kubernetes is increasingly the go-to container orchestration platform for businesses seeking to manage their containerized applications efficiently. One of the critical... Read More

Security

7 minute read

| March 17, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: Check Kubernetes Configuration for Privilege Escalation

Securing Kubernetes workloads is a critical aspect of increasing your overall cluster security. The goal is to ensure that your containers are running with minimal privileges... Read More