Fairwinds Blog

What Is EKS Auto Mode and Will It Fully Manage My Kubernetes?

7 minute read | December 19, 2024

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon introduced EKS Auto Mode, marking a significant expansion in AWS management of Kubernetes clusters, moving beyond the cluster itself. While EKS Auto...

Featured

4 minute read

| August 16, 2023

Fairwinds Named a Cool Vendor in the Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Container Management

I’m very pleased and proud to announce that Fairwinds has been named in the 2023 Gartner Cool Vendor™ in Container Management report! We believe this is an honor for the... Read More

Open Source

6 minute read

| August 10, 2023

Nova Contributors: Help Us Scan YAML templates and Ignore Non-Stable Versions

Nova is an open source project that makes it easy for you to scan your cluster for installed Helm charts, then it cross-checks them against all known Helm repositories. If it... Read More

Governance

10 minute read

| August 8, 2023

Kubernetes Governance & the Top 5 Best Practices of K8s Deployment

The widespread adoption of containerized applications has fundamentally changed how organizations develop, deploy, and manage their software infrastructure. Kubernetes is... Read More

Open Source

8 minute read

| August 3, 2023

Upload Polaris Findings to Fairwinds Insights to Access More Capabilities

Kubernetes is increasingly becoming mainstream, the industry standard for next-generation workloads and digital transformation. In 2022, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation... Read More

How to Kube

10 minute read

| August 1, 2023

How & Why You Should Install the Admission Controller in Insights

In the world of containerized everything, Kubernetes has emerged as a platform to automate the process of deployment, scaling, and management of these applications and... Read More

Cost

4 minute read

| July 27, 2023

How to Adapt the FinOps Model for Kubernetes

As we continue to deploy more applications and services to production in Kubernetes environments, our financial strategies around managing costs in Kubernetes must adapt... Read More

General

3 minute read

| July 25, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 12.16-13.2

This month we’re delighted to share some updates in Fairwinds Insights related to Prometheus metrics in addition to other improvements and bug fixes. Prometheus-metrics can... Read More

Reliability

5 minute read

| July 20, 2023

8 Advanced Strategies to Help You Optimize Kubernetes Reliability

If you’ve covered all the basics of improving reliability for your Kubernetes apps and services, you might be wondering what else you can do to make it even better. Based on... Read More

General

11 minute read

| July 18, 2023

Building a Kubernetes Platform: What You Need to Monitor in K8s and Why

Lots of people are talking about platforms, frequently talking about it as an IDP or internal developer platform. Essentially what this means is that you have a unified... Read More

Open Source

7 minute read

| July 13, 2023

Answering Your Goldilocks Questions About How HPA and VPA Work Together

Kubernetes, the open source platform for managing containerized workloads, provides you with a framework for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Let’s... Read More

Cost

8 minute read

| July 11, 2023

4 Ways to Improve Long Term Kubernetes Capacity & Cloud Costs in Kubernetes

Today, who isn’t looking for ways to minimize costs and increase efficiency? The uncertain economic environment is causing many organizations to take another look at cloud... Read More

Security

12 minute read

| July 5, 2023

Navigating Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Security

The era of cloud-native applications has arrived, and new security challenges have emerged for those developing cloud-native applications. Many modern business applications... Read More