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Kubernetes: The Cost of Doing It Wrong

6 minute read | February 20, 2023

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General
6 minute read
| April 18, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 11.12-12.2: Spotlight on Automated Fix PRs

This month’s Fairwinds Insights release notes offer a number of bug fixes and also details of our latest enhancements to Automated Fix Pull Requests (PRs) and our new NSA... Read More
Security
10 minute read
| April 13, 2023

How to Meet FedRAMP's Requirements for Container Vulnerability Scanning

The federal government continues to work to increase cybersecurity efforts in the United States, including, of course, in cloud environments. Specifically focused on cloud... Read More
Reliability
6 minute read
| April 11, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Resolve Liveness Probe Action Items

Liveness probes are an important type of health check in Kubernetes that determines whether a container is running and responsive. Kubernetes probes can help you identify... Read More
General
15 minute read
| April 5, 2023

5 Ways You Can Diagnose & Prevent OOMKilled Errors in Kubernetes

Learn some steps you can take to diagnose an OOMKilled (Out of Memory) error in a Linux-based system. Out of memory errors in Kubernetes typically occur when a container or... Read More
Security
7 minute read
| April 3, 2023

Kubernetes Basics Tutorial: Host IPC Should Not Be Configured

Containers are standard software units that package code with all its dependencies so you can run applications quickly and reliably in one computing environment or another.... Read More
General
5 minute read
| March 29, 2023

Fix Your Kubernetes Misconfigurations Faster with Automated Fix Pull Requests

We're excited to announce the launch of our latest Fairwinds Insights feature, Automated Fix Pull Requests (PRs). You can automatically fix many Kubernetes misconfigurations... Read More
Security
7 minute read
| March 28, 2023

Empower Your Developers by Giving Them a Life Vest for Kubernetes Security

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General
5 minute read
| March 23, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 11.7-11.11: Costs Page Updates [Beta]

This month, the Fairwinds Insights release notes include helpful improvements and bug fixes in the Insights platform. We’re also very excited to share our Costs page updates,... Read More
Cost
7 minute read
| March 23, 2023

How to Accelerate Your Kubernetes Cost Journey Through Best Practices

Organizations are moving to the cloud and building new cloud-native applications and services in Kubernetes to increase the scalability and availability of new offerings.... Read More
General
8 minute read
| March 21, 2023

2023 Benchmark Kubernetes Report: The State of Kubernetes Workload Reliability

Organizations continue to move more applications and services to the cloud. Despite economic uncertainty, most organizations anticipate that their expected cloud usage and... 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
Security
10 minute read
| March 14, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: Avoid Containers Running with Dangerous Capabilities

Containers are standard units of software that package code and its related dependencies to enable applications to run reliably in different computing environments. Container... Read More