K8s Infrastructure Design Assessment: Optimize Cloud-Native Foundation

K8s Infrastructure Design Assessment: Optimize Cloud-Native Foundation

A Kubernetes Infrastructure Design Assessment is an important step for organizations seeking to ensure reliable, cost effective, and secure infrastructure. At Fairwinds, a K8s infrastructure design assessment is led by top-level engineers to evaluate your architecture and business needs. Most organizations begin their Kubernetes journey with pilot programs and then ... Read More
Look Good & Gain Peace of Mind with Fairwinds' Managed Kubernetes

Look Good & Gain Peace of Mind with Fairwinds’ Managed Kubernetes

| | security
Identifying and remediating Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) as soon as possible is important for businesses, particularly when a new vulnerability is disclosed. In organizations using microservices, containers, and Kubernetes, such vulnerabilities can be particularly difficult to identify, because there are multiple images and it can be difficult to keep ... Read More
Embracing Managed Kubernetes Is a Strategic Move for Your Business

Embracing Managed Kubernetes Is a Strategic Move for Your Business

| | General
In the continuously evolving world of software engineering and infrastructure management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams have become increasingly important. These people play a critical role in ensuring the operation of cloud-native applications and services, ensuring that everything is running reliably, scales well, and is as cost-efficient as possible. Managing ... Read More
Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Check Host Port Configuration

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Check Host Port Configuration

| | security
In Kubernetes, a host port configuration allows you to expose a port from your container to the host node's interface. This enables external systems to access a service inside a container through the host node's IP address and the specified host port.  ... Read More
Increase Kubernetes Reliability: A Best Practices Guide for Readiness Probes

Increase Kubernetes Reliability: A Best Practices Guide for Readiness Probes

| | reliability
Kubernetes, released by Google as an open source container orchestration system in 2014 under Apache License 2.0, is written in the programming language Go. Today, Kubernetes is maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It offers impressive flexibility, enabling organizations of all sizes to deploy, scale, and manage production ... Read More