Fairwinds Blog

2026 Kubernetes Playbook: AI at Scale, Self‑Healing Clusters, & Growth

15 minute read | December 29, 2025

In 2026, the question isn’t whether Kubernetes wins – it already has. And yet, many organizations are running mission-critical workloads on a platform they still treat as...

Featured

8 minute read

| June 5, 2020

Making Sense of Kubernetes with Fairwinds Insights

When I started working with Kubernetes, I thought it’d be a fairly simple transition. I’d been working in AWS for years, and on Linux for years before that. I knew about... Read More

Open Source

18 minute read

| June 2, 2020

Fairwinds Polaris 1.0 - Best Practices for Kubernetes Workloads

I’m excited to announce that we’ve released Fairwinds Polaris 1.0! Read More

Featured

3 minute read

| May 22, 2020

Easing Tension Between Kubernetes Development, Security and Operations

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

Open Source

5 minute read

| May 20, 2020

Most Helpful Kubernetes Open Source Projects We Use

Kubernetes itself is one of the best open source contributions - that’s why our team at Fairwinds is 100% committed to the project and the community. Read More

How to Kube

1 minute read

| May 13, 2020

Intro to Kubernetes + How to Deploy a Multi-tiered Web Application

In this four part series, Fairwinds provides an introduction to Kubernetes with some practical definitions and how to workshops on building your first Kubernetes cluster and... Read More

General

21 minute read

| May 11, 2020

How to Deploy a Multi-Tier Web Application with Kubernetes

In the final introduction to Kubernetes series, we’ll take you through how to deploy a multi-tiered web application. The webapp is a key value storage and retrieval service... Read More

General

5 minute read

| May 11, 2020

How to Build a Kubernetes Cluster in GKE

This series is intended for engineers new to Kubernetes and GKE. It provides a basic overview of Kubernetes, architecture basics and definitions and a quick start for... Read More

General

4 minute read

| May 11, 2020

What Problems Does Kubernetes Solve?

This series is intended for engineers new to Kubernetes and GKE. It provides a basic overview of Kubernetes, definitions and a quick start for building a Kubernetes cluster... Read More

2 minute read

| May 7, 2020

Introducing Fairwinds Insights - Managing Kubernetes Configuration for security, efficiency and reliability

Maintaining secure, efficient, and reliable Kubernetes apps is increasingly complex and time-consuming. The Fairwinds engineering team wanted a better way. Kubernetes... Read More

General

4 minute read

| April 30, 2020

How to Identify if Kubernetes Pods are Running as Root

It's often easier to over-permission a Kubernetes deployment with root access to just get something working, but it’s not recommended. It leads to security issues and over... Read More

News

11 minute read

| April 28, 2020

Introducing Fairwinds Insights: A Kubernetes Management Tool

I have served as a Chief Technology Officer for application security and data security companies for over fifteen years, and during that time I have seen many of the... Read More

General

7 minute read

| April 21, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practices for Monitoring and Alerts

The truth is Kubernetes monitoring done right is a fantasy for most. It’s a problem magnified in a dynamic, ever-changing Kubernetes environment. And it is a serious problem. Read More