Fairwinds Blog

Now Available: Fairwinds Polaris 4.0 — Policy for Kubernetes Resources

11 minute read | May 26, 2021

Fairwinds Polaris has reached version 4.0, with some awesome new features! (For those keeping score, we jumped past 2.0 and 3.0 pretty quickly due to some breaking changes

Best Practices

5 minute read

| April 29, 2021

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes Part 4: Three K8s Efficiency Mistakes

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... Read More

Featured

7 minute read

| April 28, 2021

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

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... Read More

Best Practices

4 minute read

| April 22, 2021

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes Part 2: Kubernetes Security Mistakes

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, founder of Screaming in the Cloud... Read More

3 minute read

| April 20, 2021

Fairwinds Insights: Don't Miss the Release Notes Rollup - 3.0 to 4.0

We’ve had a busy few months, making significant updates to Fairwinds Insights, Kubernetes security, policy, and governance software. There are some great new features and... Read More

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

Best Practices

5 minute read

| April 12, 2021

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes: #1 Do K8S The Hard Way

Whether you are new to Kubernetes or have some experience under your belt, there are some things that you should simply never, ever do in Kubernetes. Corey Quinn, founder... Read More

Best Practices

5 minute read

| April 1, 2021

Over-Provisioned and Over-Permissioned Containers & Kubernetes

If you live in operations you know every single decision is just one in a seemingly endless series of trade-offs. The “easiest to use systems” are completely accessible by... Read More

Best Practices

5 minute read

| March 31, 2021

Make Your Kubernetes Policies Stick: Use an Effective Enforcement Plan

As teams move beyond their first Kubernetes pilot and into a broader deployment across the organization, DevOps teams have an increasingly difficult job. They don’t have... Read More

4 minute read

| March 10, 2021

Eliminate The Registry As A Single Point of Kubernetes Failure Using Saffire

Has this ever happened to you? You're running a kops cluster with flannel as the CNI, and Quay experiences a day-long outage. Suddenly, the well-oiled machine that is your... Read More

Best Practices

5 minute read

| March 3, 2021

Kubernetes Policy Enforcement to Enable DevSecOps

You are managing Kubernetes users: do you know what’s happening in your clusters? Do you know if your clusters are secure, cost-efficient, or unreliable? This is a problem... Read More

How to Kube

1 minute read

| February 25, 2021

How to Use Fairwinds Insights to Identify Kubernetes Cluster Misconfiguration

See a video from Andy Suderman, ‎Principal Engineer at Fairwinds on how he uses Fairwinds Insights daily to gain visibility into Kubernetes cluster misconfiguration. 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