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Now Available: Fairwinds Polaris 4.0 — Policy for Kubernetes Resources

11 minute read | May 26, 2021

 Fairwinds Polaris has reached version 4.0, with some awesome new features! (For those keeping score, we jumped past 2.0 and 3.0 pretty quickly due to some breaking changes

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How to Kube
5 minute read
| June 10, 2021

Meeting the Challenges of Kubernetes Multi-cluster Management

Whether you are looking to separate security boundaries, isolate the impact of a scary configuration change, scale applications closer to customers, achieve data... Read More
How to Kube
7 minute read
| May 4, 2021

How to create your first OPA custom policy in Fairwinds Insights

Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an extremely powerful tool. It’s quickly becoming one of my favorite tools to use. If you’re not familiar with OPA, I highly recommend checking... Read More
How to Kube
1 minute read
| February 25, 2021

How to Use Fairwinds Insights to Identify Kubernetes Cluster Misconfiguration

See a video from Andy Suderman,  ‎Principal Engineer at Fairwinds on how he uses Fairwinds Insights daily to gain visibility into Kubernetes cluster misconfiguration.  Read More
How to Kube
3 minute read
| February 11, 2021

Manage Open Policy Agent (OPA) Consistently

Last week the CNCF announced the graduation of Open Policy Agent (OPA), an open source, general-purpose policy engine that enables unified, context-aware policy... Read More
How to Kube
3 minute read
| January 6, 2021

How to Identify Docker :latest Tag in Kubernetes Clusters

As your team updates an app with new features or solves for bugs, you’ll be pushing the latest image to your Docker registry. In Kubernetes, Docker's latest tag is applied... Read More
How to Kube
4 minute read
| December 22, 2020

Kubernetes How to: Ensure imagePullPolicy set to Always

Relying on cached versions of a Docker image can become a security vulnerability. By default, an image will be pulled if it isn't already cached on the node attempting to... Read More
How to Kube
2 minute read
| December 21, 2020

Check Kubernetes Pod SecurityContext for readOnlyRootFilesystem

Kubernetes pod security policies enable fine-grained controls around pod creation and updates. securityContext defines a set of restraints on the runtime of a pod.  Read More
How to Kube
5 minute read
| December 9, 2020

Kubernetes CVE-2020-8554: Instructions to Identify if You’re Impacted

A new medium severity CVE has been discovered (CVE-2020-8554) affecting multitenant Kubernetes clusters. If a potential attacker can already create or edit services and... Read More
How to Kube
9 minute read
| December 3, 2020

Operate Kubernetes in a Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cloud World

When operating multiple Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud accounts, how can you work efficiently while minimizing accidental changes? In this post, I’ll share some... Read More
How to Kube
10 minute read
| December 2, 2020

How to Kubernetes: Use Conftest to Audit Infrastructure-As-Code

At Fairwinds, we leverage OPA (Open Policy Agent) in our open source product Polaris, as well as in our SaaS product,Fairwinds Insights. As our dev team implemented these... Read More
How to Kube
6 minute read
| November 23, 2020

Kubernetes: 10 Technical Transformation Steps

Fairwinds released the Kubernetes Maturity Model tool to help people self-identify their maturity with Kubernetes, understand gaps in their environment and gain insights... Read More
How to Kube
8 minute read
| October 29, 2020

Considering a Move to Kubernetes? Here’s What You Need to Know

So your team is suggesting you replatform to Kubernetes and you’re wondering if this is the right thing to do? Read More