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...

Governance

27 minute read

| December 19, 2022

What is Kubernetes Governance?

Kubernetes governance is the set of policies and procedures organizations adopt to define how Kubernetes is managed and maintained, and it is an essential part of how... Read More

General

7 minute read

| December 16, 2022

Kubernetes Basics Tutorial: Why & How to Set Image Pull Policy to "Always"

Getting started with Kubernetes can seem a bit overwhelming because, while it offers a great deal of flexibility and scalability, those benefits come with complexity. Getting... Read More

Security

14 minute read

| December 13, 2022

The Top Three Kubernetes Security Strategies You Need for 2023

The entire world is trying to move to Kubernetes. At the same time, everyone is afraid that they are going to do something wrong. They fear shipping apps and services that... Read More

General

10 minute read

| December 1, 2022

Are you Having These 5 Disagreements about Kubernetes? You Should Be!

As we head into 2023, it’s a great time to think about how you are using your tech stack, particularly Kubernetes. Many organizations jumped into Kubernetes in 2020, spurred... Read More

General

2 minute read

| November 22, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 10.2-10.6: Spotlight on Workload Cost Allocation

This month’s Fairwinds Insights release notes offer a number of bug fixes and also details of our latest enhancements to cost allocation functionality. Workload Cost... Read More

Open Source

14 minute read

| November 21, 2022

Top 4 Kubernetes Open Source Tools You Need in 2023

It’s wild to think that 2022 is wrapping up and that many of us are prepping for what’s next in 2023. As the new year fast approaches, it’s time to consider what Kubernetes... Read More

General

8 minute read

| November 17, 2022

AWS Karpenter Readiness: 6 Ways to Make Sure You're Ready for the Move

For people familiar with Kubernetes, you already know that it has many configurations available, either to scale or to perform better. In the past, most organizations used... Read More

General

6 minute read

| November 10, 2022

Kubecost Alternatives: Kubernetes Cost Allocation and Optimization by Fairwinds

At this year’s KubeCon, there was a lot of talk about Kubernetes cost optimization and allocation; and many of these attendees were looking for alternative options to... 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

Security

2 minute read

| November 3, 2022

CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 OpenSSL Vulnerabilities: Scanning Container Images

On November 1st, 2022, OpenSSL announced a pair of High Severity vulnerabilities in version 3.0.0-3.0.6 of OpenSSL. The vulnerability is a buffer overflow that requires a... Read More

Best Practices

10 minute read

| November 2, 2022

Why Aren't You Following These 5 Kubernetes Best Practices?

As containers have taken hold as the standard method of developing and deploying cloud-native applications, many organizations are adopting Kubernetes as the solution they... Read More

General

6 minute read

| October 25, 2022

Kubernetes Cost Allocation: Updates to Fairwinds Insights

Kubernetes workload cost allocation is hard. To illustrate it, let’s just take a simplistic view of the problem. Read More