This guide helps both platform engineers and DevOps leaders, as well as finance teams, understand the challenges around Kubernetes cost optimization.
Tips that Fairwinds learned from achieving SOC 2 compliance, including how Kubernetes governance software can help.
This white paper is composed of our expertise and insights from years of Kubernetes experience and hundreds of production grade cluster deployments.
There are many great tools that exist to track cloud spend. However, one persistent area of concern is containers and Kubernetes: The “black hole” of ...
Kubernetes security is becoming more challenging as the number of clusters running cloud-native applications continues to multiply rapidly. Challenges ...
In this webinar, we talk about different ways teams might be wasting money with Kubernetes. We’ll show you some common cost blindspots and how users can ...
Kubernetes guardrails allow developers to work with Kubernetes securely, ensuring compliance and cost-effectiveness so their code can reach production ...
This panel will discuss the opportunities and challenges faced as enterprise organizations increasingly turn to Kubernetes in their environments.
In the world of Kubernetes, misconfigurations happen all the time. And they are a big deal, as improper configuration affects important factors such as ...
This webinar covers common patterns and mistakes from the perspective of a Kubernetes certified service provider that helps other companies get ...
In this panel discussion webinar we’ll discuss: The current state of container networking The rise of eBPF and its impact on container networking Things ...
In this webinar, Fairwinds and Komodor will team up to talk about K8s best practices and troubleshooting methodologies you can use when reviewing open ...
In this webinar, Robert Brennan and Andy Suderman from Fairwinds will provide information on the NSA Kubernetes hardening guide and provide steps to ...
How to comply with NSA’s recommendations using Fairwinds Insights, open source and cloud native technologies
In this editorial webinar, our panel of experts will look at the state of Kubernetes today and address both the challenges and opportunities organizations ...
As Kubernetes matures and adoption increases, one question keeps coming up: Am I doing it right? In organizations with hundreds (or even thousands) of ...
Join us as our panel of experts led by Techstrong Group CCO Mike Vizard discuss the current Kubernetes governance landscape and ways in which ...
Managing container resources is a Kubernetes basic concept that requires users to set resource requests and limits. It can be a difficult concept to grasp ...
View the Insights sandbox environment to see Action Items, efficiency savings, example policies and more.
How to Eliminate Kubernetes Misconfigurations to Reduce Risk, Improve Reliability and Cloud Efficiency.
The range of technologies and best practices required to achieve and maintain application security vary widely. Each organization will need to determine ...
In this discussion, Robert and Stevie discuss the importance of DevSecOps in Kubernetes and how it can be achieved. By posing some facts and fiction ...
GitOps is an operational framework that takes DevOps best practices typically used for building applications and extends them to infrastructure as part of ...
Kubernetes isn't often top of mind when considering compliance. It makes sense; there are so many layers of compliance for teams to implement. But ...
Discover how optimizing security, compliance, reliability and cost can help you make the most of your containers
Breaking down these five domains into practical knowledge is the basis for this webinar as our all-star panel of experts will provide discreet buildable ...
This webinar showcases the findings of the K8s Benchmark Report and discusses each. Kendall Miller, President of Fairwinds will moderate a conversation ...
In this webinar Stevie, Robert and Andy will break down the importance of each element in the pyramid and how each builds on another to create ...
The Kubernetes Configuration Benchmark Report has been created based on results from over 100,000 workloads and hundreds of organizations using the ...
In this webinar, Robert Brennan and Kendall Miller of Fairwinds discuss common problems that affect Kubernetes cost estimation and highlight ways to ...
This panel webinar will discuss the challenges of building a compliance-driven cultural organization. We'll share lessons learned from building a CompOps ...
Learn how to scan your Kubernetes workloads to improve your resource utilization and security using open source tools Polaris and Goldilocks. You will ...
Join a panel of Kubernetes experts as they discuss Kubernetes challenges including how to put controls around an ever-changing, chaotic environment, when ...
This paper discusses the essential elements of Kubernetes Service Ownership, who owns what and how to enable it.
Weighing Your Inhouse vs. External Costs. While not a new question, we have provided an overview of tangible costs to consider when calculating your ROI.
Learn more about Fairwinds Kubernetes advisory services and software.
Cloud native and Kubernetes service ownership enables teams to improve security, accountability, reliability, and make continuous improvements to ...
This new Kubernetes Maturity Model eBook provides an excellent overview of K8s adoption to help you identify where you are in your Kubernetes journey.
Don’t let managing, monitoring and upgrading Kubernetes break you. These four open source projects can help you improve Kubernetes so you can ensure ...
Security professionals are challenged with securing physical devices, networks, cloud, BYOD, IOT and against internal and external threats. Now you are ...
Kubernetes Clinics is a series of deep dive, technical presentations on Kubernetes technology. Presented by experts across the Kubernetes community, check ...
As more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies to advance their digital transformation and application development efforts, many are unprepared for ...
Many companies struggle with security when adopting Kubernetes. Because Kubernetes and containers present a new approach for deploying applications, ...
You’ve adopted Kubernetes because it’s new and exciting and there is buzz everywhere, but it isn’t all smooth sailing. There is pain your company will ...
Fairwinds Insights offers a CI/CD integration to shift security, reliability and efficiency context left to deliver feedback earlier within the ...
Meet with Fairwinds at the O'Reilly Superstream Series. Learn how we can help you build secure and compliant Kubernetes infrastructure and apps.
Learn more about how Fairwinds Insights Slack Alerts helps you achieve compliance.
Meet Fairwinds: The Kubernetes Security Experts
Watch Kendall and Stevie as they discuss what Devs and Ops teams should not do in Kubernetes if they want to get the most out of the leading container ...
Today’s use of multiple clouds across multiple teams and multiple ways of implementing Kubernetes introduces complexity. Out of this complexity will come ...
In a survey of more than 150 organizations, 91% indicated they use OPA in some stage of OPA adoption from QA to production. For engineering leaders, how ...
Learn more about tuning your Kubernetes best practices alerts.
Learn more about Fairwinds Insights Kubernetes security, policy and governance software.
Learn how Fairwinds Insights helps you montior add-ons and deprecated APIs.
If you are managing a team of multiple Kubernetes users and multi-cluster environments, we bet you have a few headaches. More visibility into what’s ...
See a video from Andy Suderman, Principal Engineer at Fairwinds on how he uses Fairwinds Insights daily to gain visibility into Kubernetes cluster ...
Get a policy management overview in Fairwinds Insights.
To realize the benefits of Kubernetes, correct and consistent configurations are essential. The reality is that Kubernetes misconfigurations can introduce ...
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 ...
Whether you are new to Kubernetes or have some experience under your belt, there are things you should simply never ever do in Kubernetes.
When building an application, often the most important technical decisions come down to what to build yourself, and where to rely on third parties.
Reliability in a Kubernetes environment is synonymous with stability, streamlined development and operations, and a better user experience.
View a demo of Fairwinds Insights admission controller to shift left security.
Ensuring the Health of your Kubernetes Clusters via Best Practices
Kubernetes may be changing the cloud world, but your average ops team still hasn’t gotten comfortable with Kubernetes as a new paradigm.
Avoid Security Incidents, Downtime, and Inconsistencies Across Multiple Clusters and Users
You are using Kubernetes, things are going well — until they are not. Security vulnerabilities are popping up, you are leaking money and the reliability ...
When operating multiple Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud accounts, how can you work efficiently while minimizing accidental changes? In this ...
Kubernetes offers many benefits, but it is also complex to adopt. The Kubernetes Maturity Model has been developed to help teams, whether they are new to ...
Adopting cloud native application development comes hand in hand with adopting Kubernetes. The open source, container orchestration platform can greatly ...
Monitoring has always been challenging, and the problem is magnified in a dynamic, ever-changing Kubernetes environment. Monitoring can struggle to keep ...
Steps to achieving a production-grade Kubernetes cluster in Amazon EKS, GKE or AKS
Watch Fairwinds President, Kendall Miller along with SREs Nate Baker and Ivan Fetch discuss the Journey from Heroku to Kubernetes in Five Steps
This is a guide for Kubernetes: What needs monitoring and why
Join Fairwinds VP of Products, Joe Pelletier, and Director of Open Source, Robert Brennan, as they discuss five of the tools you should use to secure your ...
Watch Fairwinds’ President Kendall Miller, and Director of Open Source, Robert Brennan as they discuss the best practices for running and implementing ...
Join Micah Martin, Director of Engineering at Soul Cycle and Kendall Miller, President of Fairwinds as they discuss some real world examples of the ...
While there is no one way to handle security in Kubernetes, at a minimum there are five tools you must use to secure your clusters.
Read why Noonlight chose Fairwinds to implement its Kubernetes platform and provide on-going training, advisory and infrastructure improvements.
Join the Fairwinds Team to learn how Fairwinds Insights improves your Kubernetes security, efficiency, and reliability.
This eBook is a guide for helping you manage Kubernetes Configuration for Security, Efficiency and Reliability
Boxed is using Fairwinds Insights to limit security vulnerability exposure, reduce cloud spend and improve sprint planning.
Fairwinds offers a Kubernetes enablement platform to help organizations adopt cloud-native infrastructure.
Join Joe Pelletier, Fairwinds’ VP of Product and Robert Brennan, Fairwinds’ Fairwinds’ Director of Open Source as they discuss how to run Kubernetes ...
Andy demonstrates how to encrypt all of the secrets in your Kubernetes cluster using an Amazon provided KMS Key.
Engineering Leaders from Stripe, GitLab, Fairwinds, Cloud Foundry Foundation, and Zapier discuss strategies for keeping your engineering teams productive ...
Fairwinds engineers answer general and technical Kubernetes questions from the community.
Join the Fairwinds team as we discuss the best practices for running and implementing Kubernetes.
There are several considerations when choosing container orchestration tools and a lot of variables.
Join the Fairwinds Team as we discuss how we migrate clients from Heroku to Kubernetes. We'll also cover the key considerations and pitfalls
Learn how Fairwinds Open Source Software can help your team with Kubernetes Day 2 Operations.
In this segment, Fairwinds SRE, Ivan Fetch, shows you how to use helm to manage applications in Kubernetes. He also demonstrates the Polaris Webhook.
This hands-on tutorial will provide you with the right tools and insights to get Kubernetes up and running on GKE.
Join the Fairwinds Team as they discuss key considerations that will help you use Kubernetes more effectively.
“Fairwinds has saved us time and money by providing expert cloud services guidance, consulting, and implementation. Every step of the way, they’ve trained ...
Site Reliability Engineer, Ivan Fetch, explains how to use services to expose pods and help applications communicate within Kubernetes.
In this segment, Fairwinds SRE, Kim Schlesinger, shows you how to create a pod using the nginx image, view the yaml, and delete the pod.
Emily Freeman, from Microsoft, sits down with Kendall to talk Microsoft, Kubernetes, managed services, and the future of technology innovation in general.
Fairwinds offers a complete, fully managed solution for Kubernetes in your cloud. See how ClusterOps can help your organization.
"We have had a seamless engagement with Fairwinds. They have helped us transform from five-year old technology to cutting edge performance gaining safety ...
“Fairwinds’ Kubernetes expertise is deep and their engineers are responsive and great to work with. With their help and support we were able to make the ...
Fairwinds Engineers discuss why you soon won’t be able to live without this emerging technology.
“In the past, we did as much firefighting as product design and innovation. [Fairwinds] changed all that. Their responsiveness has been phenomenal. Our ...
“Working with [Fairwinds] is a no-brainer for companies wanting to implement DevOps quickly and effectively. You get an entire team of pro Kubernetes ...
“[Fairwinds] has assisted us with filling the gaps in our team so we can shore up technology debt, has brought additional value in knowledge transfer and ...
“Our time to delivery has sped up considerably as a result of our new Kubernetes clusters. Our infrastructure reinforces our ability to run our business ...
In this edition of The New Stack Makers, Justin Mound and Eric Hole talk with Benjamin Ball about best practices emerging around Kubernetes
“[Fairwinds] has enabled us to reposition and strengthen our infrastructure. Now our infrastructure is more scalable, more reliable and more secure, and ...
