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.

Open Source

6 minute read

| September 13, 2021

How to Choose: Benefits of Using Goldilocks vs. Fairwinds Insights

At Fairwinds, we’ve spent the last few years managing hundreds of clusters for dozens of organizations, which gives us considerable knowledge about and insight into the... Read More

Open Source

6 minute read

| August 18, 2021

What Is Goldilocks? (Or How to Set Your Kubernetes Resource Requests)

When we open sourced Goldilocks in October 2019, our goal was to provide a dashboard utility that helps you identify a baseline for setting Kubernetes resource requests and... Read More

Security

8 minute read

| July 27, 2021

Validating Container Security with Fairwinds Insights

Overview: What Is Container Security? Container security protects the integrity of containers, including the applications within them and the infrastructure they rely on.... Read More

5 minute read

| March 10, 2021

Eliminate The Registry As A Single Point of Kubernetes Failure Using Saffire

Has this ever happened to you? You're running a kops cluster with flannel as the CNI, and Quay experiences a day-long outage. Suddenly, the well-oiled machine that is your... 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

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