Robert Brennan

Fairwinds | Blog

This month, we’ve made some updates to Fairwinds Insights that make it easier for you to manage policy and guardrails at scale across multiple clusters. Let’s explore these new capabilities and how they allow you to target certain resources with additional policy enforcement easily, giving you greater control over your ... Read More

This month, we’ve been working hard to make improvements to Fairwinds Insights that will make it easier to use, so you can make informed decisions about your Kubernetes environment faster. These updates include List Ticket Auto-Updates, CI Resolutions, App Groups, Admission Controller UI, Clusters Page Improvements, and Efficiency Scores. Let’s ... Read More

This month, we’re pleased to share new updates in Fairwinds Insights, including aggregated Action Items and admission request resolutions. Let’s explore these new capabilities ... Read More

The critical vulnerability recently disclosed by cloud security firm Orca impacts Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and could allow threat actors with a Google account to take control of a Kubernetes cluster. Estimates show that up to 250,000 active GKE clusters could be susceptible to this attack vector, dubbed Sys:All. According ... Read More

We took a break from sending updates in December, but we didn’t stop making improvements to Fairwinds Insights! This month, we’re delighted to share some new updates in Fairwinds Insights, including redesigned GitHub comments, links to Action Items from the Resources per Pod graph, updates to burstable and limited Quality ... Read More

This month we are happy to share some exciting updates in Fairwinds Insights, including an update that improves the reliability of deleting action items, which helps to reduce cognitive load for devs. We’ve also made more updates to our cost functionality to help increase accuracy. Let’s explore these changes more ... Read More

When you've got a medium- to large-sized company, you need a platform to help your application teams ship code into production in a standardized way. This ensures that your applications are easier to maintain, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient. A platform can provide a standardized development environment, automated deployment and scaling, ... Read More

Kubernetes, as many already know, is a Greek word that means “helmsman” or “pilot” in English — a fitting name for the platform we use to manage containerized workloads and services. Continuing with the Greek theme, Kyverno means to govern, a suitable name for a policy engine. Kyverno is becoming ... Read More

Nova is an open source project that makes it easy for you to scan your cluster for installed Helm charts, then it cross-checks them against all known Helm repositories. If it finds an updated version of the chart you're using or determines that your current version is deprecated, it will ... Read More

Kubernetes is increasingly becoming mainstream, the industry standard for next-generation workloads and digital transformation. In 2022, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation report showed 96% of respondents were using or evaluating Kubernetes, while 79% were using managed services, such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and ... Read More