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...

General

6 minute read

| June 17, 2022

Top 12 Kubernetes Resources: Learn and Stay Up-to-Date

The cloud native community is thriving and Kubernetes has a lot to do with it. As an open source community, members are dedicated to education and support on the topic. Read More

Security

5 minute read

| June 15, 2022

NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guide: Upgrade and Application Security

Our NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guide series has looked at pod security, network access, authentication and authorization, audit logging and threat detection. In the final... Read More

Security

5 minute read

| June 10, 2022

NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guide: Audit Logging and Threat Detection Overview

In our series on the NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guide, we’ve looked at pod security, network access and authentication and authorization. Today we look at the audit logging and... Read More

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

General

4 minute read

| June 2, 2022

What are Kubernetes Guardrails?

If you’ve ever gone bowling with small children, you’ll easily visualize a bowling lane with the bumpers up. The purpose: allow the bowling ball to reach the pins without the... Read More

Featured

5 minute read

| June 1, 2022

Kubernetes: The Blackhole of FinOps

FinOps has become another buzzword in the cloud native ecosystem of late. FinOps, as defined by the FinOps Foundation, is the: Read More

General

4 minute read

| May 26, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Latest Release Notes: 8.5.0

Fairwinds recently highlighted some of our enhancements to Insights helping to further unify DevSecOps with additional shift-left security features. We’ve also dug deep into... Read More

Security

3 minute read

| May 24, 2022

Kubernetes Vulnerability Management: Keep Third-party Images Up-to-Date

The Kubernetes ecosystem is built on a vast array of open source technologies. Kubernetes itself is one of the largest open source projects, and a community of tools and... Read More

General

6 minute read

| May 16, 2022

3 Things to Look Forward to at KubeCon EU

This week, the cloud native community will come together in Valencia, Spain for the first time, in person, since KubeCon in Barcelona in 2019. As an attendee of many KubeCons... Read More

Featured

7 minute read

| May 9, 2022

NSA Hardening Guide: How Can Fairwinds Insights Strengthen Your Authentication & Authorization Practices?

If you haven’t already thumbed through the NSA’s recent Kubernetes Hardening Guide to learn more about today’s best practices in Kubernetes and cloud native technologies,... Read More

Featured

8 minute read

| May 5, 2022

NSA Hardening Guide: Locking Down Network Access with Fairwinds Insights

In our second blog covering the NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidelines, we will discuss the myriad ways Fairwinds Insights—along with open source and cloud native... Read More

Featured

7 minute read

| April 29, 2022

NSA Hardening Guide: Three Ways Fairwinds Insights Can Root Out Poor Pod Security

The NSA has released a stringent set of guidelines for hardening your Kubernetes clusters. The 66-page document outlines a strong defense-in-depth approach to minimize the... Read More