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...

Best Practices

7 minute read

| September 23, 2021

How the Fairwinds Team Worked Together to Receive SOC 2 Certification

Service Organization Control, more commonly known as SOC, comes in two flavors: SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports. SOC 1 reports are for businesses that handle financial information... Read More

How to Kube

5 minute read

| September 20, 2021

Operationalize Kubernetes Open Source Tools at Scale With Fairwinds Insights

At Fairwinds, we have a long history managing hundreds of Kubernetes clusters across dozens of organizations. To manage that complexity and keep our customers online and... Read More

How to Kube

2 minute read

| September 17, 2021

Kubernetes CVE, Symlink Exchange: Identify Containers Running as Root

Symlink Exchange Can Allow Host Filesystem Access Read More

General

4 minute read

| September 16, 2021

Why DevSecOps is Just a Fancy Acronym for Kubernetes Service Ownership

Yes, software development is becoming one of the most prominent and critical industries in the world, but it’s still in the throes of its own evolution—especially as it... Read More

Best Practices

4 minute read

| September 15, 2021

How to Rightsize Your Kubernetes Workloads

It’s time to make your first big spend commit to the cloud of your choosing, or you’re getting ready to renew a commit and need all the details to get things right. Before... Read More

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

10 minute read

| September 1, 2021

Open Source Vulnerability Scanning

Open source vulnerability scanners are used to detect open source components in software applications. Some scanners are referred to as software composition analysis (SCA)... Read More

News

4 minute read

| August 30, 2021

Fairwinds Insights 5.2.0 - 5.4.0 Release Notes

In August we’ve been fixing bugs and adding new team management capabilities in our Fairwinds Insights latest releases. The updates in 5.2.0, 5.3.0, and 5.4.0 include new... Read More

General

7 minute read

| August 25, 2021

Kubernetes Is Maturing — And It’s Enabling Business Transformation

Kubernetes is central to how many enterprises are transforming their businesses, and the de facto standard for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized... 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

Best Practices

5 minute read

| August 5, 2021

Kubernetes Configuration Validation: Learn Why It's not One and Done

If you're using Kubernetes in production, it's critical that you're validating the configuration for each of your workloads. The smallest changes or omissions can lead to... Read More

How to Kube

4 minute read

| August 3, 2021

An Introduction to the Kubernetes Maturity Model - How to Use It

The Fairwinds team developed the Kubernetes Maturity Model over a year ago, and we continue to update and refine it to reflect the five stages you go through in your journey... Read More