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Open Source vs Commercial Software: Why You Can’t (Always) Afford Free

16 minute read | January 13, 2021

When building an application, often the most important technical decisions come down to what to build yourself, and where to rely on third parties. Thanks to a vibrant...

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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
How to Kube
4 minute read
| September 10, 2020

OPA Alternative: A Stepped Approach to Kubernetes Policy Enforcement

Recently we’ve had a number of conversations around Open Policy Agent (OPA) where Kubernetes users are intrigued and want to use it, but are attempting to figure out the... Read More
How to Kube
14 minute read
| September 9, 2020

Hands-On With Agones and Google Cloud Game Servers

I recently had the pleasure of exploring Agones and Google Cloud Game Servers (GCGS), and I wanted to share my experience. Read More
How to Kube
6 minute read
| September 2, 2020

Kubernetes Controllers Basics

If you’re new to Kubernetes, one of the first concepts you’ll want to familiarize yourself with is the Controller. Most Kubernetes users do not create Pods directly;... Read More
How to Kube
6 minute read
| August 31, 2020

Intro to Kube ingress: Set up nginx Ingress in Kubernetes Bare Metal

An ingress is a resource that enables traffic to come into your Kubernetes cluster from the outside. This is usually to HTTP or HTTPS service. There are ways to map... Read More