Is Container OS Insecurity Making Your K8s Infrastructure Less Secure?
The decision to adopt a purpose-built container operating system (OS) versus maintaining a standard OS across legacy and cloud-native systems depends on your organization’s risk tolerance, compliance requirements, and visibility needs. Below is a structured approach you can take to evaluate the trade-offs and select the right strategy ... Read More
Security, Compliance, and Visibility in Kubernetes Infrastructure
The shift to cloud-native infrastructure has introduced a difficult dilemma for many security and compliance teams: do compliance requirements and the desire for visibility impede the ability to use more secure systems in cloud-native environments? This tension arises from legacy tooling, evolving attack surfaces, and the rigidity of existing compliance ... Read More
Cloud Native Security: How to Protect Your Kubernetes Infrastructure
As organizations increasingly adopt cloud-native technologies, securing Kubernetes infrastructure has become more important than ever. Cloud-native security encompasses practices and tools designed specifically to protect applications, data, and infrastructure in today’s ephemeral, distributed cloud environments. By aligning cloud native security practices with regulatory requirements, you can better ensure compliance, which ... Read More
Top 6 Lessons Learned Managing Kubernetes for SMBs
In the fast-growing landscape of cloud computing, Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration platform that transformed how organizations deploy and manage applications and services. At Fairwinds, we’ve spent the last eight years building and maintaining Kubernetes infrastructure for clients large and small, and we’ve learned a lot along the way ... Read More
5 Lessons Learned Managing Kubernetes in Enterprise Organizations
Now the recognized standard for container orchestration, Kubernetes has revolutionized how organizations deploy and manage applications and services. However, deploying Kubernetes at scale in enterprise environments presents unique challenges that are different from those faced in smaller companies. Let’s walk through the key lessons we’ve learned from enabling enterprise clients ... Read More
Who Owns Kubernetes? Dive Into the Teams and the Expertise They Bring
Kubernetes is more than just a technical tool — it's a critical element of modern IT infrastructure that supports containerized applications at scale. However, understanding who "owns" Kubernetes within an organization isn’t always a simple question. It involves recognizing the roles and responsibilities for different aspects of Kubernetes that are ... Read More
Choosing Your Kubernetes Cloud Provider: The Pros and Cons of AKS
In the evolving cloud-native world, Kubernetes has become the gold standard for container orchestration over the past decade. While there are multiple cloud providers that offer managed Kubernetes services, Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) offers compelling capabilities. However, like every other technology, AKS is great at some things and not ... Read More
