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.

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

10 minute read

| December 2, 2020

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

AtFairwinds, we leverage OPA (Open Policy Agent) in our open source productPolaris, as well as in our SaaS product,Fairwinds Insights. As our dev team implemented these... Read More

Open Source

4 minute read

| October 6, 2020

What's New in Goldilocks 3.0.0

We recently released version 3.0.0 of Goldilocks with a lot of really big changes. I wanted to take a minute to showcase the hard work that Harrison Katz has done over 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

General

3 minute read

| March 20, 2020

How to Kube: KMS Secrets

Security is a top concern for anyone on the web, but especially for those using Kubernetes. Without any pre-configured security settings on the platform, it's up to you to... Read More

1 minute read

| March 16, 2020

How-to-Kube: KMS Secrets Backend

In this segment, Fairwinds Lead R&D Engineer, Andy Suderman, demonstrates how to encrypt all of the secrets in your Kubernetes cluster using an Amazon provided KMS Key. Read More

General

5 minute read

| December 18, 2019

Cluster Health Checkup: Reliability - Part Two

As I mentioned in part one, site reliability engineers care a great deal about reliability in Kubernetes environments. In most cases, reliability is synonymous with stability... Read More

General

3 minute read

| December 17, 2019

Cluster Health Checkup: Reliability

A Site Reliability Engineer cares a lot about reliability in a Kubernetes environment, as you might have guessed from the job title. Reliability is important to a software... Read More

General

6 minute read

| March 6, 2019

Best Practices for Implementing CI/CD Pipelines in Kubernetes

At Fairwinds, we take an opinionated approach on how to implement CI/CD pipelines in Kubernetes and Docker. In the following sections, I will outline the guiding principles... Read More

General

13 minute read

| January 29, 2019

Security Basics for your first Kubernetes Cluster

So you built a cluster. Maybe you have some apps deployed. You’re sold on this whole Kubernetes thing. Now what do you do? Read More

General

19 minute read

| November 20, 2018

Making Kubernetes Fully Operational

A Kubernetes cluster is a powerful tool. It gives you the power to deploy your containerized workloads, automatically scale them, and schedule them across multiple machines.... Read More

General

3 minute read

| October 10, 2018

Why My IP Is Not My Password

My IP Is Not My Password In the last several years, I’ve seen an alarming number of requests to implement a system where we allow access based on the user’s IP address. In my... Read More