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...

Best Practices

6 minute read

| April 1, 2021

Over-Provisioned and Over-Permissioned Containers & Kubernetes

If you live in operations you know every single decision is just one in a seemingly endless series of trade-offs. The “easiest to use systems” are completely accessible by... Read More

Best Practices

5 minute read

| March 31, 2021

Make Your Kubernetes Policies Stick: Use an Effective Enforcement Plan

As teams move beyond their first Kubernetes pilot and into a broader deployment across the organization, DevOps teams have an increasingly difficult job. They don’t have time... Read More

5 minute read

| March 10, 2021

Eliminate The Registry As A Single Point of Kubernetes Failure Using Saffire

Has this ever happened to you? You're running a kops cluster with flannel as the CNI, and Quay experiences a day-long outage. Suddenly, the well-oiled machine that is your... Read More

Best Practices

5 minute read

| March 3, 2021

Kubernetes Policy Enforcement to Enable DevSecOps

You are managing Kubernetes users: do you know what’s happening in your clusters? Do you know if your clusters are secure, cost-efficient, or unreliable? This is a problem... Read More

How to Kube

1 minute read

| February 25, 2021

How to Use Fairwinds Insights to Identify Kubernetes Cluster Misconfiguration

See a video from Andy Suderman, ‎Principal Engineer at Fairwinds on how he uses Fairwinds Insights daily to gain visibility into Kubernetes cluster misconfiguration. Read More

Open Source

7 minute read

| February 25, 2021

Polaris vs. KubeLinter

Identifying Kubernetes misconfiguration can help you ensure your clusters are secure, efficient and reliable. Polaris, by Fairwinds, is an open source tool that our team... Read More

Featured

7 minute read

| February 24, 2021

Fairwinds Insights Reaches 3.0

I’m excited to announce the next major release of Fairwinds Insights! Read More

Best Practices

5 minute read

| February 17, 2021

What to Measure and Control in Kubernetes

The Kubernetes Maturity Model includes seven phases that you’ll undertake to achieve full maturity. In phase six, we discuss measurement and control. Read More

How to Kube

4 minute read

| February 11, 2021

Manage Open Policy Agent (OPA) Consistently

Last week the CNCF announced the graduation of Open Policy Agent (OPA), an open source, general-purpose policy engine that enables unified, context-aware policy enforcement... Read More

Featured

9 minute read

| February 8, 2021

An Interview with Flatfile on Why Fairwinds Insights: Kubernetes Configuration Validation

One of the best things about Kubernetes is how every company using it is transforming their business. One of our customers, Flatfile, is set up for huge growth in 2021 as... Read More

Best Practices

7 minute read

| February 5, 2021

Kubernetes Multi Cluster Visibility: Why & How to Get It

If you are managing a team of engineers using Kubernetes, how do you know what’s really happening in your clusters? That’s a problem we hear about a lot. Read More

General

4 minute read

| February 2, 2021

What is Kubernetes Policy as Code?

From Infrastructure as Code to Policy as Code It wasn’t that long ago people started talking about Infrastructure as Code. Part of the reason why is how fast the technology... Read More