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10 Questions to Help You Decide Whether to Hire an SRE or Managed KaaS

9 minute read | February 11, 2025

Deciding between managing Kubernetes in-house or partnering with a managed service provider can be a difficult choice for organizations seeking to optimize their cloud...

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How to Kube
7 minute read
| July 29, 2021

Top 5 Questions About Running Kubernetes Securely and Efficiently

Since Kubernetes is still relatively new, there’s often not a lot of expertise within organizations. That means in many organizations, there are a lot of questions about... Read More
How to Kube
7 minute read
| June 30, 2021

K8s Clinic: How to Run Kubernetes Securely and Efficiently

Why Organizations Choose Kubernetes With the adoption of containers, software packaging is increasingly shifting left, which means (depending on your organization) that... Read More
How to Kube
5 minute read
| June 10, 2021

Meeting the Challenges of Kubernetes Multi-cluster Management

Whether you are looking to separate security boundaries, isolate the impact of a scary configuration change, scale applications closer to customers, achieve data sovereignty,... Read More
How to Kube
9 minute read
| May 4, 2021

How to create your first OPA custom policy in Fairwinds Insights

Fairwinds Polaris has reached version 4.0, with some awesome new features! (For those keeping score, we jumped past 2.0 pretty quickly due to some breaking changes). Read More
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