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...

2 minute read

| May 7, 2020

Introducing Fairwinds Insights - Managing Kubernetes Configuration for security, efficiency and reliability

Maintaining secure, efficient, and reliable Kubernetes apps is increasingly complex and time-consuming. The Fairwinds engineering team wanted a better way. Kubernetes... Read More

General

4 minute read

| April 30, 2020

How to Identify if Kubernetes Pods are Running as Root

It's often easier to over-permission a Kubernetes deployment with root access to just get something working, but it’s not recommended. It leads to security issues and over... Read More

News

11 minute read

| April 28, 2020

Introducing Fairwinds Insights: A Kubernetes Management Tool

I have served as a Chief Technology Officer for application security and data security companies for over fifteen years, and during that time I have seen many of the... Read More

General

7 minute read

| April 21, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practices for Monitoring and Alerts

The truth is Kubernetes monitoring done right is a fantasy for most. It’s a problem magnified in a dynamic, ever-changing Kubernetes environment. And it is a serious problem. Read More

General

7 minute read

| April 17, 2020

A Q&A on Kubernetes Basics, Tooling and More

Recently I answered Kubernetes questions submitted by the community. Here is a quick summary of the questions and answers discussed around tooling, Kubernetes basics and... Read More

General

4 minute read

| April 14, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practices for Reliability

Many adopters of Kubernetes attempt to capitalize on 100% of the existing infrastructure automation technology that predates cloud native applications and Kubernetes, such as... Read More

General

4 minute read

| April 10, 2020

Kubernetes Solved: Easily Find Deprecated API Versions with Pluto

Pluto is an open source utility to help users easily find deprecated Kubernetes API versions in their Infrastructure-as-Code repositories and Helm releases. The Kubernetes... Read More

Featured

3 minute read

| April 9, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practice for Efficient Resource Utilization

We all know that we need to manage Kubernetes efficiently. It’s similar to how we all know we need to drive our cars more efficiently. But we cannot simply do this just by... Read More

General

5 minute read

| April 3, 2020

Kubernetes Best Practices for Security

Kubernetes is the dominant container orchestration solution. The genius of Kubernetes is its ability to provide you with a framework to run distributed systems resiliently.... Read More

General

2 minute read

| March 31, 2020

COVID-19 Hackathon: Pitch Your Pandemic App Ideas

We are living in unprecedented times. Our lives have been turned upside down as we all attempt to balance our unique set of circumstances. That’s why our inspiring team at... Read More

4 minute read

| March 30, 2020

Fairwinds Hosts COVID-19 Hackathon; Competition to Create Applications to Address Pandemic

BOSTON, March 31, 2020 (Newswire.com) -Fairwinds, a Kubernetes enablement company, today announced a joint COVID-19 Hackathon. The program is designed to encourage... Read More

1 minute read

| March 26, 2020

Kubernetes Expert Q&A Pre-recorded Virtual Session

Fairwinds engineers answer general and technical Kubernetes questions from the community. Read More