Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 15.1.1-15.5.0 App Groups Auto-Updates

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 15.1.1-15.5.0 App Groups Auto-Updates

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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
Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 15.0-15.2: Aggregated Action Items

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 15.0-15.2: Aggregated Action Items

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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
Fairwinds Insights Now Enables You to Find Critical GKE Vulnerability

Fairwinds Insights Now Enables You to Find Critical GKE Vulnerability

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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
Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 14.8 through 14.13.4: GitHub Comments

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 14.8 through 14.13.4: GitHub Comments

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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
Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 14.4-14.7: Reliability & Costs Updates

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 14.4-14.7: Reliability & Costs Updates

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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
Top 5 Tips for Better Kubernetes Self Service

Top 5 Tips for Better Kubernetes Self Service

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
Expanding Your Kubernetes Policy Control Options with Kyverno Integration

Expanding Your Kubernetes Policy Control Options with Kyverno Integration

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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 Contributors: Help Us Scan YAML templates and Ignore Non-Stable Versions

Nova Contributors: Help Us Scan YAML templates and Ignore Non-Stable Versions

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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
View Polaris Findings in Fairwinds Insights Free Tier

Upload Polaris Findings to Fairwinds Insights to Access More Capabilities

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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
Fairwinds Jamathon: Create OPA Policies with OpenAI

Fairwinds Jamathon: Create OPA Policies with OpenAI

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Fairwinds hosts an annual Jamathon amongst employees. It’s a fun, several week program that gives every person the chance to try something new, work with different teams, and come up with some pretty cool ideas.  ... Read More