Fairwinds Blog

Easing Tension Between Kubernetes Development, Security and Operations

3 minute read | May 22, 2020

As organizations move to develop mission-critical applications in Kubernetes, they need a way to ensure that configuration best practices are applied consistently...

Developer Hub

4 minute read

| April 14, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practices for Reliability

Many adopters of Kubernetes attempt to capitalize on 100% of the existing infrastructure automation technology that predates cloud native applications and Kubernetes, such... Read More

Developer Hub

4 minute read

| April 10, 2020

Kubernetes Solved: Easily Find Deprecated API Versions with Pluto

Pluto is an open source utility to help users easily find deprecated Kubernetes API versions in their Infrastructure-as-Code repositories and Helm releases. The... Read More

Developer Hub

3 minute read

| April 9, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practice for Efficient Resource Utilization

We all know that we need to manage Kubernetes efficiently. It’s similar to how we all know we need to drive our cars more efficiently. But we cannot simply do this just by... Read More

Developer Hub

5 minute read

| April 3, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practices for Security

Kubernetes is the dominant container orchestration solution – adoption now stands at 86% of the market. The genius of Kubernetes is its ability to provide you with a... Read More

Thoughts

2 minute read

| March 31, 2020

COVID-19 Hackathon: Pitch Your Pandemic App Ideas

We are living in unprecedented times. Our lives have been turned upside down as we all attempt to balance our unique set of circumstances. That’s why our inspiring team at... Read More

4 minute read

| March 30, 2020

Fairwinds Hosts COVID-19 Hackathon; Competition to Create Applications to Address Pandemic

BOSTON, March 31, 2020 (Newswire.com) - Fairwinds, a Kubernetes enablement company, today announced a joint COVID-19 Hackathon. The program is designed to encourage... Read More

| March 26, 2020

Kubernetes Expert Q&A Pre-recorded Virtual Session

Fairwinds engineers answer general and technical Kubernetes questions from the community. Read More

| March 26, 2020

Remote Work Tips and Tricks for Your Engineering Team: Pre-recorded Panel Discussion

Engineering Leaders from Stripe, GitLab, Fairwinds, Cloud Foundry Foundation, and Zapier discuss strategies for keeping your engineering teams productive and engaged. Their... Read More

Developer Hub

3 minute read

| March 25, 2020

Kubernetes 1.18.0 is out: Now What?

The latest Kubernetes version is now available. You can find a complete list of updates and bug fixes in the changelog. Major topics for the release include deprecations, ... Read More

Thoughts

5 minute read

| March 23, 2020

Practical Tips from Engineering Leaders for Working From Home During Uncertain Times

As COVID-19 spreads across the globe and many organizations have asked non-essential employees to work from home, many of us are adjusting to the new norm of conducting... Read More

Developer Hub

3 minute read

| March 20, 2020

How to Kube: KMS Secrets

Security is a top concern for anyone on the web, but especially for those using Kubernetes. Without any pre-configured security settings on the platform, it's up to you to... Read More

| March 16, 2020

How-to-Kube: KMS Secrets Backend

In this segment, Fairwinds Lead R&D Engineer, Andy Suderman, demonstrates how to encrypt all of the secrets in your Kubernetes cluster using an Amazon provided KMS Key. Read More