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7 minute read

| February 9, 2022

You Can Establish Reliable Kubernetes Clusters Without Losing Sleep

Full service ownership of Kubernetes, much like the tenets of DevSecOps, is a codifying process whereby all teams maintain complete control over their products and services.... Read More

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5 minute read

| February 1, 2022

How Fairwinds Insights Compliance Self-Assessment Now Simplifies SOC 2

Fairwinds Insights, our security and governance software, helps managers responsible for compliance to automate, monitor and enforce policy guardrails. And today, we are... Read More

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7 minute read

| January 27, 2022

Remember These Key Practices When Securing Your Kubernetes Workloads

To truly understand and appreciate the potential risks in your Kubernetes clusters, you need a strong set of best practices for securing sensitive workloads. Aside from... Read More

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5 minute read

| January 19, 2022

A Kubernetes Overview Says Proper Configuration is Key to Saving Money

In our recent white paper, 5 Ways to Optimize Your Kubernetes Ownership, we discuss the myriad benefits associated with a robust service ownership model. Aside from... Read More

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6 minute read

| January 18, 2022

How to Get Your Kubernetes Compliance Right From the Start

If you have been living in the cloud native world for a while, where Kubernetes is quickly becoming the gold standard for containerized workloads, you have likely heard of... Read More

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7 minute read

| January 18, 2022

Spotlight on Karpenter, Goldilocks and Cluster Autoscaling with Open Source

At Fairwinds, we are dedicated to empowering our open source community. Through our own tooling, we work hard to give back to this valued group, building quality open source... Read More

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7 minute read

| December 17, 2021

Why You Need to Establish Better Kubernetes Security

By now, most people in the cloud native world know at least a few things about the benefits of successful Kubernetes service ownership. As a way to break down silos and... Read More

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4 minute read

| December 7, 2021

Accurate Kubernetes Cost Monitoring and Management

Understanding the cost of the cloud and all subsets of that cloud consumption is becoming an ever increasing requirement for DevOps leaders. In fact, FinOps has become the... Read More

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7 minute read

| December 2, 2021

5 Ways to Boost the Strength and Flexibility of Your Organization

As someone who arrived in an Engineering VP role through the business side, rather than the traditional engineering track, I’ve worked in many different kinds of... Read More

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4 minute read

| December 1, 2021

Check Out the Specifics of Our New Goldilocks Upgrade

The original goal of our open source project, Goldilocks, was to provide a dashboard utility for identifying a baseline in Kubernetes resource requests and limits. To provide... Read More

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5 minute read

| November 24, 2021

How Kubernetes is Changing the Face of Medical Technology

These days, the healthcare industry relies heavily on software technology to improve communications, deliver faster services and reduce overall costs. Medical technology... Read More

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3 minute read

| November 9, 2021

Fairwinds Insights Now Integrates with PagerDuty

At Fairwinds, we rely on PagerDuty to manage our on call rotations and support our customers—we’re big fans of their product and can’t imagine living without it. Conversely,... Read More

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