Fairwinds Blog

Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility

6 minute read | April 17, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced extended support prices for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), prompting some businesses to reevaluate how they manage their cloud...

General

5 minute read

| September 29, 2023

Your Questions on Polaris: Open Source Configuration Validation for Kubernetes

There are many ways to configure Kubernetes and the workloads that it runs, and unfortunately, many of them are dangerous. It's far too easy to introduce problems related to... Read More

General

8 minute read

| September 27, 2023

Introducing Action Items Progress Reporting

Platform engineers and developers alike already know that Kubernetes is complex, and it can be hard to track and document improvements in this ephemeral environment. To... Read More

General

11 minute read

| September 21, 2023

Building a Kubernetes Platform: How to Handle Cost Management & Reporting

Platforms, sometimes called internal developer platforms, are a unified infrastructure that allows all the development teams you have in your company, whether it be two or 20... Read More

General

3 minute read

| September 19, 2023

Fairwinds Insights: Kyverno Integration, Consolidated Recommendations, Release Notes & Office Hours

This month we have lots to update on, including an integration with Kyverno, how we are reducing cognitive load by consolidating resource recommendations, our release notes,... Read More

General

6 minute read

| September 14, 2023

K8s Enterprise Questions: What About Security, Platform Engineering, and Distros?

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow and enterprises increasingly deploy production workloads, we’ve seen a lot of questions. Our recent Cloud Native Now webinar with... Read More

General

6 minute read

| September 12, 2023

Build a Custom Kubernetes Platform? Or Try the Insights Free Tier?

As businesses grow and scale, the deployment of applications and services on production Kubernetes environments becomes increasingly prevalent. Platform engineering and... Read More

General

9 minute read

| September 7, 2023

Diving in to Day 2 Ops, Stateful Apps, & more with Kubernetes Experts

We had so many great questions about Kubernetes in the Enterprise in our recent Cloud Native Now webinar that I wanted to share more of the discussion. Mike Vizard, Chief... Read More

Open Source

6 minute read

| September 5, 2023

Pluto Finds Deprecated Kubernetes API Versions — 3 Questions from Users

Pluto is an open source utility that Fairwinds built to help users find deprecated Kubernetes API versions in their code repositories and Helm releases. As many Kubernetes... Read More

General

4 minute read

| August 31, 2023

Get the Help You Need, Wherever You Are in Your Kubernetes Journey

Just as Kubernetes itself has grown and evolved, so has Fairwinds. For the last five years, I've been involved in delivering Kubernetes infrastructure to our customers in a... Read More

General

3 minute read

| August 29, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 13.3-13.8 — the Latest Cost Updates

This month we’re happy to share some updates in Fairwinds Insights related to network and storage costs as well as other improvements and bug fixes. Read More

Best Practices

7 minute read

| August 24, 2023

What Not to Monitor and What Not to Alert On in Kubernetes

Kubernetes, the de-facto container orchestrator, offers considerable flexibility and power. But monitoring every single thing in Kubernetes can become overwhelming quickly!... Read More

General

4 minute read

| August 18, 2023

KubeCrash Fall 2023: Multi-Cluster Deployments at Enterprise Scale

With KubeCon approaching fast (yes, November will be here before we know it), we’ve been preparing for KubeCrash, your cloud native warm-up! Read More