Kubernetes Best Practice: How to (Correctly) Set Resource Requests and Limits

Kubernetes Best Practice: How to (Correctly) Set Resource Requests and Limits

| | Best Practices
One of my biggest pet peeves when managing Kubernetes is when there are workloads  with no resource requests and limits. I was so frustrated by this that I created Goldilocks, an open source project, to make the process of setting initial resource requests and limits easier. In this blog, I’ll ... Read More
K8s Tutorial: Find Outdated Helm Charts with Nova

K8s Tutorial: Find Outdated Helm Charts with Nova

| | open source
Making sure you have the most recent version of software you install in a Kubernetes cluster helps you avoid known security issues and have access to the most up-to-date project features. If you use Helm to manage your releases, Fairwinds Nova can help you find outdated or deprecated Helm charts ... Read More
K8s Tutorial: Setting and Rightsizing Kubernetes Workloads with Goldilocks

K8s Tutorial: Setting and Rightsizing Kubernetes Workloads with Goldilocks

| | open source
A standard piece of advice for optimizing your Kubernetes cluster is to ensure that you set CPU and Memory Requests and Limits on every container. This seems simple, but how do you know which values to select?  ... Read More