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...

General

3 minute read

| May 24, 2021

May Release Notes Rollup - Everything from 4.1.0 to 4.3.0

We’ve had a busy May, adding new capabilities to Fairwinds Insights, Kubernetes security, policy, and governance software. There are some great new features and additional... Read More

Best Practices

5 minute read

| May 18, 2021

Configuration Drift in Kubernetes - What Is It and Why it Matters

Most organizations start out with Kubernetes by piloting it with a single application. Once they’ve gone through a successful pilot and embraced Kubernetes, companies may... Read More

Open Source

2 minute read

| May 13, 2021

Introducing the Fairwinds Open Source User Group

Fairwinds loves open source. We are huge advocates of Kubernetes and the community of open source technologies around it. Having managed thousands of clusters for customers... Read More

General

3 minute read

| May 10, 2021

Running Kubernetes Version 1.15? It Might Be Time to Upgrade

Recently, Amazon Web Services (AWS) shared a post on planning Kubernetes upgrades with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) , driven in part because they’re... Read More

Best Practices

7 minute read

| May 6, 2021

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes Part 5: Your Top 4 FAQs

As we’ve discussed in this series, there are some things that you should simply never, ever do in Kubernetes. Corey Quinn, founder of Screaming in the Cloud and Chief Cloud... Read More

How to Kube

9 minute read

| May 4, 2021

How to create your first OPA custom policy in Fairwinds Insights

Fairwinds Polaris has reached version 4.0, with some awesome new features! (For those keeping score, we jumped past 2.0 pretty quickly due to some breaking changes). Read More

Best Practices

5 minute read

| April 29, 2021

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes Part 4: Three K8s Efficiency Mistakes

As we outlined in our first post in this series, there are some things that you should simply never, ever do in Kubernetes. Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill... Read More

Featured

7 minute read

| April 28, 2021

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes Part 3: 6 K8s Reliability Mistakes

As we outlined in our first post in this series, there are some things that you should simply never, ever do in Kubernetes. Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill... Read More

Best Practices

4 minute read

| April 22, 2021

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes Part 2: Kubernetes Security Mistakes

As we outlined in our first post in this series, there are some things that you should simply never, ever do in Kubernetes. Corey Quinn, founder of Screaming in the Cloud and... Read More

3 minute read

| April 20, 2021

Fairwinds Insights: Don't Miss the Release Notes Rollup - 3.0 to 4.0

We’ve had a busy few months, making significant updates to Fairwinds Insights, Kubernetes security, policy, and governance software. There are some great new features and... Read More

Featured

5 minute read

| April 13, 2021

An Easier Way to Audit your Kubernetes Infrastructure: Self-hosted Fairwinds Insights

We’re excited to announce that a self-hosted release of Fairwinds Insights is now in beta! Read More

Best Practices

5 minute read

| April 12, 2021

Never Should You Ever In Kubernetes: #1 Do K8S The Hard Way

Whether you are new to Kubernetes or have some experience under your belt, there are some things that you should simply never, ever do in Kubernetes. Corey Quinn, founder of... Read More