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...

Governance

6 minute read

| June 6, 2023

Now Available: Automated Compliance Evidence Collection in Fairwinds Insights

Adopting cloud-native technologies like containers and Kubernetes presents new compliance challenges. Since containers are ephemeral in nature, determining if an environment... Read More

Security

17 minute read

| June 1, 2023

SOC 2 Compliance for Kubernetes with Fairwinds Insights

As the pace of digital transformation accelerates, many organizations are adopting Kubernetes for managing their containerized workloads. While Kubernetes brings scalability... Read More

General

9 minute read

| May 30, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Integrate Slack and Fairwinds Insights

Many organizations today use Slack, across teams, departments, countries, and even continents. Particularly useful in a remote or hybrid work environment, Slack improves... Read More

Security

5 minute read

| May 25, 2023

How to Check Host Port Configuration in Kubernetes

In Kubernetes, a host port configuration allows you to expose a port from your container to the host node's interface. This enables external systems to access a service... Read More

General

6 minute read

| May 23, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 12.3-12.10

This month, the Fairwinds Insights release notes include lots of helpful improvements and bug fixes in the Insights platform. We’re also very excited that our Costs page has... Read More

General

43 minute read

| May 19, 2023

9 Key Takeaways from a Platform Team's Panel Discussion on Kubernetes

If you’re thinking about building a Kubernetes platform that your developers can use to build applications, you need to know where to start, what questions to ask, and how to... Read More

General

11 minute read

| May 17, 2023

Goldilocks: An Open Source Tool for Recommending Resource Requests

One of the questions that I get most frequently from our clients at Fairwinds is “How do we know what to set our resource requests and limits to?” Goldilocks is a Kubernetes... Read More

10 minute read

| May 16, 2023

Building a Kubernetes Platform: A Comprehensive Guide to CI/CD Deployment

Kubernetes is increasingly the go-to container orchestration platform for businesses seeking to manage their containerized applications efficiently. One of the critical... Read More

Best Practices

12 minute read

| May 11, 2023

How You Can Avoid Common Kubernetes Misconfigurations & Vulnerabilities

Securing workloads in Kubernetes is an important part of your cluster security overall. Your overall goal should be to ensure that your containers are running with minimal... Read More

Best Practices

7 minute read

| May 10, 2023

7 Building Blocks for a Successful Internal Developer Platform for Kubernetes

As organizations continue to adopt Kubernetes for container orchestration, the need for a robust internal developer platform has become increasingly important. According to ... Read More

Reliability

6 minute read

| May 5, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Resolve Readiness Probe Action Items

Readiness probes, like liveness probes, are a type of health check in Kubernetes. They determine whether a container is ready to accept traffic. If a container fails a... Read More

Reliability

15 minute read

| May 3, 2023

Increase Kubernetes Reliability: A Best Practices Guide for Readiness Probes

Kubernetes, released by Google as an open source container orchestration system in 2014 under Apache License 2.0, is written in the programming language Go. Today, Kubernetes... Read More