Name: Fairwinds Insights Example of Daily Usage to Identify Kubernetes Cluster Misconfiguration
Uploaded: 2021-02-25T20:48:24.000Z
Duration: 7 min 53 s
Description: Fairwinds Insights Example of Daily Usage to Identify Kubernetes Cluster Misconfiguration

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Fairwinds Insights is a software solution designed specifically for platform teams running Kubernetes. According to the vendor, it aims to help these teams implement standards, enforce best practices, and gain visibility into their Kubernetes clusters. The goal is to increase development velocity, ensure security and compliance, and optimize costs. Fairwinds Insights is suitable for companies of various sizes, ranging from small startups to large enterprises. It is utilized by platform teams, DevOps teams, Kubernetes administrators, IT operations teams, and software development companies.

## Key Features

**Kubernetes Cost Optimization**: According to the vendor, Fairwinds Insights provides cost estimation and allocation for workloads, nodes, and clusters. It offers advice on optimizing resource usage, recommends adjustments based on actual usage, and integrates with AWS billing for cost monitoring.

**Kubernetes Governance**: Fairwinds Insights offers a policy library with 100+ built-in policies to achieve compliance and enable self-service. According to the vendor, it supports Policy-as-Code automation, allowing policies to be written once and deployed everywhere. It also provides multi-cluster visibility into compliance and supports CIS Benchmark. The vendor states that Fairwinds Insights offers compliance self-assessment for SOC 2 and provides recommendations.

**Shift-Left Kubernetes Security**: The vendor claims that Fairwinds Insights scans infrastructure-as-code to identify misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. It conducts container vulnerability scanning to ensure secure images and provides runtime monitoring to detect security threats. According to the vendor, it supports auto-scan of infrastructure-as-code to support GitOps workflows. Fairwinds Insights implements Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for secure access management and integrates with Falco for enhanced security. The vendor states that it provides a vulnerability explorer to track and manage vulnerabilities.

**Customer Success**: Fairwinds Insights offers dedicated customer success managers to assist with onboarding and platform adoption. It also provides technical account managers and ongoing support for assistance. According to the vendor, it offers remediation services to help resolve issues and improve platform performance.

**Integration with Existing Tools and Open Source**: Fairwinds Insights integrates with ticketing systems, CI/CD pipelines, and workflows. According to the vendor, it allows the operationalization of open source tools at scale.

Fairwinds offers a Kubernetes enablement platform to help organizations adopt cloud-native infrastructure. Solutions to accelerate the Kubernetes journey include a fully managed service to add capacity to existing DevOps team; an advisory service for those who need to develop their expertise; and software offerings for those looking to improve security and reduce costs for their cloud-native infrastructure.

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Fairwinds Insights Example of Daily Usage to Identify Kubernetes Cluster Misconfiguration

See a video from Andy Suderman,  ‎Principal Engineer at Fairwinds on how he uses Fairwinds Insights daily to gain visibility into Kubernetes cluster misconfiguration. The short video provides an overview of Action Items, how to assign them and how to make upgrades via Fairwinds Insights recommendations.

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