Written By: Kendall Miller — 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 danger of falling in a gutter. Kubernetes guardrails serve a similar purpose: allow developers to work with Kubernetes securely, in…

Written By: Patrick Loring — FinOps has become another buzzword in the cloud native ecosystem of late. FinOps, as defined by the FinOps Foundation, is the: FinOps is an evolving cloud financial management discipline and cultural practice that enables organizations to get maximum business value by helping engineering, finance, technology and business teams to collaborate…

Written By: Dakoda Wogan 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 why you need to keep third-party images up-to-date to help manage potential Kubernetes vulnerabilities. …

Written By: Joe Pelletier The Kubernetes ecosystem is built on a vast array of open source technologies. …

Written By: Danielle Cook — 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 in Europe and North America, I’m excited to once again be in person with this buzzing community. Here are the…

Written By: Joe Pelletier — If you haven’t already thumbed through the NSA’s recent Kubernetes Hardening Guide to learn more about today’s best practices in Kubernetes and cloud native technologies, don’t worry-we’ve got you covered. …

Written By: Robert Brennan — In our second blog covering the NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidelines, we will discuss the myriad ways Fairwinds Insights -along with open source and cloud native technologies-can help your organization comply with these important recommendations. …

Written By: Robert Brennan — The NSA has released a stringent set of guidelines for hardening your Kubernetes clusters. The 38-page document outlines a strong defense-in-depth approach to minimize the chances of a breach-and to ensure the blast radius remains as small as possible if an attacker does manage to infiltrate your Kubernetes clusters. …

Written By: Kendall Miller — Kubernetes as a technology gives organizations the ability to run containerized applications at scale across different cloud infrastructures and distributions. What it can’t do (yet) is centrally manage a wide expanse of clusters out of the box in a compliant and reliable manner. This reality makes it difficult to deliver…