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

7 minute read

| April 29, 2022

NSA Hardening Guide: Three Ways Fairwinds Insights Can Root Out Poor Pod Security

The NSA has released a stringent set of guidelines for hardening your Kubernetes clusters. The 66-page document outlines a strong defense-in-depth approach to minimize the... Read More

Featured

6 minute read

| April 27, 2022

Three Steps to Streamlining Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Management

Kubernetes as a technology gives organizations the ability to run containerized applications at scale across different cloud infrastructures and distributions. What it can’t... Read More

News

4 minute read

| April 19, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Agent 2.0 | Release Notes: 7.12.0 - 8.1.0

Happy spring from Fairwinds! April has brought a lot of new improvements to the features and functionality of our SaaS governance platform for Kubernetes, Fairwinds Insights.... Read More

Best Practices

4 minute read

| April 19, 2022

Don’t Forget to Check Kubernetes Pod SecurityContext for readOnlyRootFilesystem

Running secure workloads in Kubernetes can be challenging. Kubernetes enables engineers to configure the security features of containers using the securityContext field.... Read More

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