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4 minute read

| August 17, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes: 8.10-9.6

Over the past month, the Fairwinds development team have released a number of updates to Insights including our newly designed Vulnerabilities Explorer that helps teams... Read More

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| August 16, 2022

Find Your Kubernetes Cost Blind Spots

Cloud infrastructure has changed so dramatically in the last decade it's almost hard to believe. One of my first jobs in tech had a server room in a closet and we handled... Read More

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5 minute read

| August 3, 2022

3 Ways for Engineering Leaders to Kickstart a FinOps Program

As an engineering leader you need to be BFFs with your CFO. It’s that partnership that gives you a deep understanding of the business - and gives your CFO a view into the... Read More

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5 minute read

| June 21, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 8.6-10: Spotlight on Policies and NSA Hardening Guidance

Fairwinds Insights has been enhanced over the last month to include a number of new features and bug fixes. The Kubernetes governance platform ensures users can configure... Read More

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6 minute read

| June 17, 2022

Top 12 Kubernetes Resources: Learn and Stay Up-to-Date

The cloud native community is thriving and Kubernetes has a lot to do with it. As an open source community, members are dedicated to education and support on the topic. Read More

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4 minute read

| June 2, 2022

What are Kubernetes Guardrails?

If you’ve ever gone bowling with small children, you’ll easily visualize a bowling lane with the bumpers up. The purpose: allow the bowling ball to reach the pins without the... Read More

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5 minute read

| June 1, 2022

Kubernetes: The Blackhole of FinOps

FinOps has become another buzzword in the cloud native ecosystem of late. FinOps, as defined by the FinOps Foundation, is the: Read More

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4 minute read

| May 26, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Latest Release Notes: 8.5.0

Fairwinds recently highlighted some of our enhancements to Insights helping to further unify DevSecOps with additional shift-left security features. We’ve also dug deep into... Read More

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6 minute read

| May 16, 2022

3 Things to Look Forward to at KubeCon EU

This week, the cloud native community will come together in Valencia, Spain for the first time, in person, since KubeCon in Barcelona in 2019. As an attendee of many KubeCons... Read More

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5 minute read

| April 6, 2022

KubeCrash: Cloud Native Crash Courses

KubeCrash is a new virtual KubeCon co-located event for those who can’t attend KubeCon in person or are in “timezone-left-behinds.” Created by five companies with Kubernetes... Read More

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13 minute read

| March 22, 2022

Clover, PagerDuty and Fairwinds: Enabling Developers on Kubernetes

Listen as Rishi Malik from Clover Network, Tristan Bates from PagerDuty, Kendall Miller from Fairwinds and Danielle Cook from Fairwinds moderates a discussion on Kubernetes... Read More

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3 minute read

| January 25, 2022

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 6.7.0-7.1.0: Spotlight on Reducing Kubernetes Alert Fatigue

We are always working on new features for Fairwinds Insights based on our customer feedback. We recently made several changes to our software. From bug fixes to compliance... Read More

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