Fairwinds Blog

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

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

How to Kube

3 minute read

| January 6, 2021

How to Identify Docker :latest Tag in Kubernetes Clusters

As your team updates an app with new features or solves for bugs, you’ll be pushing the latest image to your Docker registry. In Kubernetes, Docker's latest tag is applied by... Read More

How to Kube

4 minute read

| December 22, 2020

Kubernetes How to: Ensure imagePullPolicy set to Always

Relying on cached versions of a Docker image can become a security vulnerability. By default, an image will be pulled if it isn't already cached on the node attempting to run... Read More

How to Kube

2 minute read

| December 21, 2020

Check Kubernetes Pod SecurityContext for readOnlyRootFilesystem

Kubernetes pod security policies enable fine-grained controls around pod creation and updates. securityContext defines a set of restraints on the runtime of a pod. Read More

How to Kube

5 minute read

| December 9, 2020

Kubernetes CVE-2020-8554: Instructions to Identify if You’re Impacted

A new medium severity CVE has been discovered (CVE-2020-8554) affecting multitenant Kubernetes clusters. If a potential attacker can already create or edit services and pods,... Read More

How to Kube

9 minute read

| December 3, 2020

Operate Kubernetes in a Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cloud World

When operating multiple Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud accounts, how can you work efficiently while minimizing accidental changes? In this post, I’ll share some... Read More

How to Kube

10 minute read

| December 2, 2020

How to Kubernetes: Use Conftest to Audit Infrastructure-As-Code

AtFairwinds, we leverage OPA (Open Policy Agent) in our open source productPolaris, as well as in our SaaS product,Fairwinds Insights. As our dev team implemented these... Read More

How to Kube

6 minute read

| November 23, 2020

Kubernetes: 10 Technical Transformation Steps

Fairwinds released the Kubernetes Maturity Model tool to help people self-identify their maturity with Kubernetes, understand gaps in their environment and gain insights into... Read More

How to Kube

8 minute read

| October 29, 2020

Considering a Move to Kubernetes? Here’s What You Need to Know

So your team is suggesting you replatform to Kubernetes and you’re wondering if this is the right thing to do? Read More

How to Kube

4 minute read

| September 10, 2020

OPA Alternative: A Stepped Approach to Kubernetes Policy Enforcement

Recently we’ve had a number of conversations around Open Policy Agent (OPA) where Kubernetes users are intrigued and want to use it, but are attempting to figure out the best... Read More

How to Kube

14 minute read

| September 9, 2020

Hands-On With Agones and Google Cloud Game Servers

I recently had the pleasure of exploring Agones and Google Cloud Game Servers (GCGS), and I wanted to share my experience. Read More

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