Fairwinds Blog

Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service: A Force Multiplier for Your Tech Team

6 minute read | November 20, 2024

Kubernetes revolutionized container orchestration, but managing it is still a complex and time-consuming process. That’s why Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service offerings have...

Reliability

6 minute read

| May 5, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Resolve Readiness Probe Action Items

Readiness probes, like liveness probes, are a type of health check in Kubernetes. They determine whether a container is ready to accept traffic. If a container fails a... Read More

Reliability

14 minute read

| May 3, 2023

Increase Kubernetes Reliability: A Best Practices Guide for Readiness Probes

Kubernetes, released by Google as an open source container orchestration system in 2014 under Apache License 2.0, is written in the programming language Go. Today, Kubernetes... Read More

General

4 minute read

| April 28, 2023

How to Lean into the Good and Mitigate Risk When Adopting Front-Edge Technology

Over the course of my career, I’ve primarily worked with front-edge technology. It can be a thrilling experience — thrilling good, and thrilling scary! The common thread is a... Read More

Governance

10 minute read

| April 27, 2023

Building a Kubernetes Platform: How & Why to Apply Governance and Policy

A Platform, sometimes called an "internal developer platform," is a unified infrastructure that allows development teams in a company to deliver applications rapidly and... Read More

Policy

9 minute read

| April 25, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basic Tutorial: Validating OPA Policies in the CLI for Cloud-Native Infrastructure

The Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine that provides a framework for validating structured data across your cloud-native stack. It... Read More

Governance

6 minute read

| April 20, 2023

Now Available: NSA Hardening Guidance Compliance Report in Fairwinds Insights

The Kubernetes Hardening Guide published by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) provides comprehensive guidance... Read More

General

6 minute read

| April 18, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 11.12-12.2: Spotlight on Automated Fix PRs

This month’s Fairwinds Insights release notes offer a number of bug fixes and also details of our latest enhancements to Automated Fix Pull Requests (PRs) and our new NSA... Read More

Security

10 minute read

| April 13, 2023

How to Meet FedRAMP's Requirements for Container Vulnerability Scanning

The federal government continues to work to increase cybersecurity efforts in the United States, including, of course, in cloud environments. Specifically focused on cloud... Read More

Reliability

6 minute read

| April 11, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Resolve Liveness Probe Action Items

Liveness probes are an important type of health check in Kubernetes that determines whether a container is running and responsive. Kubernetes probes can help you identify... Read More

Security

7 minute read

| April 3, 2023

Kubernetes Basics Tutorial: Host IPC Should Not Be Configured

Containers are standard software units that package code with all its dependencies so you can run applications quickly and reliably in one computing environment or another.... Read More

General

5 minute read

| March 29, 2023

Fix Your Kubernetes Misconfigurations Faster with Automated Fix Pull Requests

We're excited to announce the launch of our latest Fairwinds Insights feature, Automated Fix Pull Requests (PRs). You can automatically fix many Kubernetes misconfigurations... Read More

Security

7 minute read

| March 28, 2023

Empower Your Developers by Giving Them a Life Vest for Kubernetes Security

# Insecurity on the water I'm taking sailing lessons with my 12 year old son and he's as excited about it as I am. We have been out twice on a 37 foot sailboat with an... Read More