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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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How to Kube
4 minute read
| October 14, 2021

Why You Should Treat Your Platform Like a Well-Documented API

It’s a common topic of conversation among leaders of technical organizations... Read More
How to Kube
5 minute read
| October 1, 2021

Why Governance & Guardrails are the Real Foundation of Kubernetes Ownership

Would you ever build a house without a roof? How about a master bedroom with no window? Even if you wanted to, your contractor would surely advise against it—and for good... Read More
How to Kube
5 minute read
| September 20, 2021

Operationalize Kubernetes Open Source Tools at Scale With Fairwinds Insights

At Fairwinds, we have a long history managing hundreds of Kubernetes clusters across dozens of organizations. To manage that complexity and keep our customers online and... Read More
How to Kube
2 minute read
| September 17, 2021

Kubernetes CVE, Symlink Exchange: Identify Containers Running as Root

Symlink Exchange Can Allow Host Filesystem Access Read More
How to Kube
4 minute read
| August 3, 2021

An Introduction to the Kubernetes Maturity Model - How to Use It

The Fairwinds team developed the Kubernetes Maturity Model over a year ago, and we continue to update and refine it to reflect the five stages you go through in your journey... Read More
How to Kube
7 minute read
| July 29, 2021

Top 5 Questions About Running Kubernetes Securely and Efficiently

Since Kubernetes is still relatively new, there’s often not a lot of expertise within organizations. That means in many organizations, there are a lot of questions about... Read More
How to Kube
7 minute read
| June 30, 2021

K8s Clinic: How to Run Kubernetes Securely and Efficiently

Why Organizations Choose Kubernetes With the adoption of containers, software packaging is increasingly shifting left, which means (depending on your organization) that... Read More
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 sovereignty,... Read More
How to Kube
9 minute read
| May 4, 2021

How to create your first OPA custom policy in Fairwinds Insights

Fairwinds Polaris has reached version 4.0, with some awesome new features! (For those keeping score, we jumped past 2.0 pretty quickly due to some breaking changes). 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
4 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 enforcement... 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 by... Read More