Fairwinds Blog

Kubernetes in 2025: Are You Ready For These Top 5 Trends & Predictions?

9 minute read | January 3, 2025

Now that Kubernetes has turned 10, it has firmly established itself as a cornerstone of cloud-native deployment. That means it’s finally fair to request ten years of...

Security

5 minute read

| October 6, 2022

Kubernetes Security vs. Security Theater

Physical Security Checks When I was a kid my father worked for the government and that sent us around the world to some interesting places. One of the places we lived had a... Read More

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

General

4 minute read

| September 22, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 9.7-9.11: Spotlight on New Reports

We are always working on new features for Fairwinds Insights based on our customer feedback. We recently made several changes to our software. From bug fixes to new... Read More

Featured

6 minute read

| September 22, 2022

3 Things to Know about FinOps and Kubernetes

Recently I undertook the FinOps Foundation training and became certified. If you are looking to expand your FinOps knowledge, I’d highly recommend it. The training is vast... Read More

Featured

3 minute read

| September 20, 2022

Kubernetes Policy Engine, Polaris: A General Preview of New Checks

Polaris is an open source policy engine for Kubernetes that validates and remediates Kubernetes resources. It includes 30+ built in configuration policies and the ability to... Read More

Featured

7 minute read

| September 19, 2022

Kubernetes security, cost avoidance an' policy go 'and in 'and

Kubernetes security continues to be one o' the biggest concerns fer organizations adoptin' the technology. Security teams be learnin' kubernetes while devops an' developers... Read More

Featured

4 minute read

| September 14, 2022

New Fairwinds Insights Releases: Azure DevOps Integration & Secret Encryption

If you are managing a team of developers using Kubernetes, no doubt you are running into some scaling issues - not around supporting end-users, but around easily being able... Read More

General

4 minute read

| September 13, 2022

KubeCrash is Back! The KubeCon Detroit Warm-up

I’m so excited to be part of the second KubeCrash happening virtually this year in preparation for KubeCon Detroit. Alongside other great open source contributors -... Read More

Security

6 minute read

| September 8, 2022

Kubernetes Security, Cost Avoidance and Policy Go Hand in Hand

Kubernetes security continues to be one of the biggest concerns for organizations adopting the technology. Security teams are learning Kubernetes while DevOps and developers... Read More

Security

4 minute read

| September 1, 2022

Why Infrastructure-as-Code Scanning Matters for Kubernetes Configuration

Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the ability to provision and manage infrastructure using a configuration language. It offers the repeatability, transparency, and testing of... Read More

General

7 minute read

| August 24, 2022

FinOps "Crawl, Walk, Run" Maturity Model Applied to Kubernetes

FinOps has become an increasingly popular goal of many organizations. It helps to unite financial teams and cloud operations teams across organizations to speak the same... Read More

General

10 minute read

| August 23, 2022

5 Ways to Make Your Dev Teams (Using Kubernetes) Love You

As an engineering leader, you have a choice: you can make decisions constantly that drive everyone mad, or you can make your developers love you by enabling them to do the... Read More