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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...

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3 minute read
| October 18, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 9.12-10.1: Spotlight on Autoscan Enhancements

This month’s Fairwinds Insights release notes offer a number of bug fixes and also enhancements to our autoscan feature. Designed for Platform Engineering Managers who need... Read More
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4 minute read
| September 22, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 9.7-9.11: Spotlight on New Reports

We are always working on new features for Fairwinds Insights based on our customer feedback. We recently made several changes to our software. From bug fixes to new... Read More
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6 minute read
| September 22, 2022

3 Things to Know about FinOps and Kubernetes

Recently I undertook the FinOps Foundation training and became certified. If you are looking to expand your FinOps knowledge, I’d highly recommend it. The training is vast... Read More
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3 minute read
| September 20, 2022

Kubernetes Policy Engine, Polaris: A General Preview of New Checks

Polaris is an open source policy engine for Kubernetes that validates and remediates Kubernetes resources. It includes 30+ built in configuration policies and the ability to... Read More
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7 minute read
| September 19, 2022

Kubernetes security, cost avoidance an' policy go 'and in 'and

Kubernetes security continues to be one o' the biggest concerns fer organizations adoptin' the technology. Security teams be learnin' kubernetes while devops an' developers... Read More
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4 minute read
| September 14, 2022

New Fairwinds Insights Releases: Azure DevOps Integration & Secret Encryption

If you are managing a team of developers using Kubernetes, no doubt you are running into some scaling issues - not around supporting end-users, but around easily being able... Read More
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4 minute read
| September 13, 2022

KubeCrash is Back! The KubeCon Detroit Warm-up

I’m so excited to be part of the second KubeCrash happening virtually this year in preparation for KubeCon Detroit. Alongside other great open source contributors -... Read More
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7 minute read
| August 24, 2022

FinOps "Crawl, Walk, Run" Maturity Model Applied to Kubernetes

FinOps has become an increasingly popular goal of many organizations. It helps to unite financial teams and cloud operations teams across organizations to speak the same... Read More
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10 minute read
| August 23, 2022

5 Ways to Make Your Dev Teams (Using Kubernetes) Love You

As an engineering leader, you have a choice: you can make decisions constantly that drive everyone mad, or you can make your developers love you by enabling them to do the... Read More
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4 minute read
| August 17, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes: 8.10-9.6

Over the past month, the Fairwinds development team have released a number of updates to Insights including our newly designed Vulnerabilities Explorer that helps teams... Read More
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4 minute read
| August 16, 2022

Find Your Kubernetes Cost Blind Spots

Cloud infrastructure has changed so dramatically in the last decade it's almost hard to believe. One of my first jobs in tech had a server room in a closet and we handled... Read More
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5 minute read
| August 3, 2022

3 Ways for Engineering Leaders to Kickstart a FinOps Program

As an engineering leader you need to be BFFs with your CFO. It’s that partnership that gives you a deep understanding of the business - and gives your CFO a view into the... Read More