Fairwinds Blog

10 Questions to Help You Decide Whether to Hire an SRE or Managed KaaS

9 minute read | February 11, 2025

Deciding between managing Kubernetes in-house or partnering with a managed service provider can be a difficult choice for organizations seeking to optimize their cloud...

Featured

5 minute read

| April 14, 2022

The True Cost of Fixing Kubernetes Clusters: How Fairwinds Insights Can Save You Time and Money

Organizations adopting Kubernetes to increase the speed of software development are consistently encountering the same problem—a steep cost to repair defects and... Read More

Best Practices

4 minute read

| April 11, 2022

Kubernetes DevOps Tip #5: Why Setting imagePullPolicy to Always is More Necessary Than You Think

This blog will discuss the need for better practices around the Pull Policy of a Kubernetes container, which is set using the imagePullPolicy field in a pod specification.... Read More

General

5 minute read

| April 6, 2022

KubeCrash: Cloud Native Crash Courses

KubeCrash is a new virtual KubeCon co-located event for those who can’t attend KubeCon in person or are in “timezone-left-behinds.” Created by five companies with Kubernetes... Read More

Featured

12 minute read

| April 5, 2022

Fairwinds’ Open Source Projects for Kubernetes

Open source software is core to Fairwinds, providing Kubernetes support to our customers and the larger community. We work hard to build open source projects that help our... Read More

Featured

5 minute read

| March 31, 2022

Update on Pluto and How This Open Source Project Can Identify Deprecated APIs in Kubernetes 1.22

Here at Fairwinds, we rely on our open source projects to help customers and our community build the right Kubernetes architecture for their organization. One of our most... Read More

Open Source

2 minute read

| March 29, 2022

Polaris, Open Source Configuration Validation, Now in ValidKube

Fairwinds’ open source project, Polaris, helps users configuring workloads ensure Kubernetes best practices are followed. Contributing to the open source and Kubernetes... Read More

Featured

13 minute read

| March 22, 2022

Clover, PagerDuty and Fairwinds: Enabling Developers on Kubernetes

Listen as Rishi Malik from Clover Network, Tristan Bates from PagerDuty, Kendall Miller from Fairwinds and Danielle Cook from Fairwinds moderates a discussion on Kubernetes... Read More

Featured

6 minute read

| March 21, 2022

Correct Kubernetes Configuration is Key to Better Efficiency and Reliability

Although container security is often considered the most pressing topic in Kubernetes, it is inextricably linked to issues of efficiency and reliability, two key elements in... Read More

Featured

6 minute read

| March 9, 2022

The Truth About Proper Configuration Will Save Your Kubernetes Security Plan

When it comes to the cloud native and Kubernetes landscape, security is among the top concerns of modern practitioners. Along with reliability and efficiency, Kubernetes... Read More

News

2 minute read

| March 9, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 7.7.0 - 7.11.0: Spotlight on Navigation Improvements

Hello from Fairwinds! As usual, we have been working hard to continually upgrade the features and functionality of Fairwinds Insights, our Kubernetes security and governance... Read More

Featured

9 minute read

| March 3, 2022

4 Tips From Our Experience with Kubernetes SOC 2 Compliance

If you work in the operations or security space, you have likely heard of SOC 2 compliance, otherwise known as Service Organization Control. This set of compliance... Read More

5 minute read

| February 23, 2022

Poor Kubernetes Configuration Can Impact the Security of Your Clusters in Surprising Ways

Misconfigurations in the world of Kubernetes happen all the time. And they are a big deal, as improper configuration affects important factors like container security,... Read More