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6 minute read

| February 20, 2023

Kubernetes: The Cost of Doing It Wrong

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10 minute read

| February 15, 2023

Kubernetes Clinic: Learn How to Check Your Kubernetes Cluster Health

At the beginning of a new year, we all want to start doing things to make ourselves healthier, more productive, or happier. Your Kubernetes clusters deserve the same kind of... Read More

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8 minute read

| February 7, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Install the In-Cluster Agent

First of all, let’s talk about the Fairwinds Insights In-Cluster Agent —what is it, anyway? At Fairwinds, we refer to the Helm chart used to deploy it as the Fairwinds... Read More

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14 minute read

| January 27, 2023

Get Started with Fairwinds Insights (Free Tier), Kubernetes Governance Platform

Fairwinds Insights is software for Kubernetes platform engineers to integrate into internal developer platforms with built-in and customized Kubernetes best practices that... Read More

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6 minute read

| January 24, 2023

Why Now, Why Free? Try Fairwinds Insights, Kubernetes Governance Today

We’re excited that starting this year we are offering a free tier of Fairwinds Insights, our Kubernetes governance software. Many organizations are just getting started with... Read More

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4 minute read

| January 20, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 10.7-11.1: New Insights Continuous Integration (CI) Script

This month’s Fairwinds Insights release notes include several bug fixes and improvements as well as a new Insights Continuous Integration (CI) script to improve the... Read More

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6 minute read

| January 18, 2023

Kubernetes Basics Tutorial: How to Integrate Jira and Fairwinds Insights

Jira is an issue and project tracking solution by Atlassian. Many organizations use Jira as a way to collaborate across teams, helping them to plan projects, assign tasks,... Read More

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7 minute read

| January 10, 2023

2023 Kubernetes Benchmark Report: How Do Your Kubernetes Workloads Compare?

Kubernetes adoption is growing, and as organizations increasingly use it to automate the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications, more teams are... Read More

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4 minute read

| December 20, 2022

2023 Cloud Native Predictions

As we wrap 2022 and look to 2023, here are a round up of cloud native and Kubernetes predictions by the Fairwinds team: Bill Ledingham, Andy Suderman, Robert Brennan and... Read More

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7 minute read

| December 16, 2022

Kubernetes Basics Tutorial: Why & How to Set Image Pull Policy to "Always"

Getting started with Kubernetes can seem a bit overwhelming because, while it offers a great deal of flexibility and scalability, those benefits come with complexity. Getting... Read More

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10 minute read

| December 1, 2022

Are you Having These 5 Disagreements about Kubernetes? You Should Be!

As we head into 2023, it’s a great time to think about how you are using your tech stack, particularly Kubernetes. Many organizations jumped into Kubernetes in 2020, spurred... Read More

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2 minute read

| November 22, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 10.2-10.6: Spotlight on Workload Cost Allocation

This month’s Fairwinds Insights release notes offer a number of bug fixes and also details of our latest enhancements to cost allocation functionality. Workload Cost... Read More

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