Fairwinds Blog

When Should You Bring in a Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service Provider?

6 minute read | June 20, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, Kubernetes is a cornerstone technology for container orchestration. As organizations increasingly use Kubernetes, assessing

Andy Suderman is the CTO at Fairwinds.

Best Practices

7 minute read

| September 28, 2022

Kubernetes Best Practice: How to (Correctly) Set Resource Requests and Limits

One of my biggest pet peeves when managing Kubernetes is when there are workloads with no resource requests and limits. I was so frustrated by this that I created Goldilocks,... Read More

Open Source

10 minute read

| July 26, 2022

K8s Tutorial: Find Outdated Helm Charts with Nova

Making sure you have the most recent version of software you install in a Kubernetes cluster helps you avoid known security issues and have access to the most up-to-date... Read More

Open Source

8 minute read

| July 15, 2022

K8s Tutorial: Setting and Rightsizing Kubernetes Workloads with Goldilocks

A standard piece of advice for optimizing your Kubernetes cluster is to ensure that you set CPU and Memory Requests and Limits on every container. This seems simple, but how... Read More

How to Kube

5 minute read

| July 7, 2022

Find Deprecated and Removed APIs in Kubernetes: Intro to Pluto

Open Source

3 minute read

| June 6, 2022

Open Source Project: NOVA 3.1.0, Not Just For Helm Users Anymore!

Up until now, Fairwinds Nova was just a tool for Helm releases. While this has been exceptionally useful for us and other users over the last several years, we recognize that... Read More

Best Practices

4 minute read

| April 11, 2022

Kubernetes DevOps Tip #5: Why Setting imagePullPolicy to Always is More Necessary Than You Think

This blog will discuss the need for better practices around the Pull Policy of a Kubernetes container, which is set using the imagePullPolicy field in a pod specification.... Read More

Featured

5 minute read

| March 31, 2022

Update on Pluto and How This Open Source Project Can Identify Deprecated APIs in Kubernetes 1.22

Here at Fairwinds, we rely on our open source projects to help customers and our community build the right Kubernetes architecture for their organization. One of our most... Read More

Featured

9 minute read

| March 3, 2022

4 Tips From Our Experience with Kubernetes SOC 2 Compliance

If you work in the operations or security space, you have likely heard of SOC 2 compliance, otherwise known as Service Organization Control. This set of compliance... Read More

How to Kube

2 minute read

| January 21, 2022

CVE-2022-0185: How to Identify at Risk Kernel Versions in Your K8S Cluster

A high-severity vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, CVE-2022-0185, was announced this week. The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service (system... Read More

Featured

7 minute read

| January 18, 2022

Spotlight on Karpenter, Goldilocks and Cluster Autoscaling with Open Source

At Fairwinds, we are dedicated to empowering our open source community. Through our own tooling, we work hard to give back to this valued group, building quality open source... Read More

Best Practices

7 minute read

| September 23, 2021

How the Fairwinds Team Worked Together to Receive SOC 2 Certification

Service Organization Control, more commonly known as SOC, comes in two flavors: SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports. SOC 1 reports are for businesses that handle financial information... 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