Fairwinds Insights Training Resources

Fairwinds Insights Tutorial: How to Manage Policy at Scale

Dexter Garner — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:48:04 GMT

As the number of apps and services deployed in Kubernetes environments grows, your environment is going to become more complex. Being able to manage policies at scale goes from a nice-to-have to an essential. Having a solution that enables you to automate processes and use the right tools to maintain consistency, efficiency, and security can help enormously. Fairwinds Insights is a solution that allows you to manage your policies at scale to help you maintain reliability, efficiency, and security in your Kubernetes deployments.

Setting Image Pull Policy to "Always"

Grace Gude — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:51:13 GMT

Learn how to check containers for image pull policy settings.

How to Integrate Jira and Fairwinds Insights

Grace Gude — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:40:51 GMT

Fairwinds Insights can connect to Jira in order to create Jira tickets from Action Items. Learn how to set up the integration.

How to Integrate Slack and Fairwinds Insights

rachel@fairwinds.com (Rachel Sweeney) — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:32:06 GMT

Fairwinds Insights has an integration with Slack, so you can get notifications about critical changes to your clusters.

How to Install Fairwinds Insights

rachel@fairwinds.com (Rachel Sweeney) — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:03:56 GMT

Fairwinds Insights can help you discover potential security, efficiency, and reliability issues with your Kubernetes configuration at each point in the development process. Get an overview of the three ways to connect with Fairwinds Insights including Continuous Integration, the Admission Controller and the In-Cluster Agent.

Install: How to Install the Fairwinds Insights In-Cluster Agent

rachel@fairwinds.com (Rachel Sweeney) — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 18:50:31 GMT

The Insights Agent runs inside your Cluster, and sends back data to Fairwinds Insights.

Action Item: Ensure Containers Do Not Run As Root

Stevie Caldwell — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:42:05 GMT

See how to check containers that are running as root within your Kubernetes clusters.

Action Item: Check Kubernetes Configuration for Privilege Escalation

Stevie Caldwell — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:39:48 GMT

Learn how Fairwinds Insights checks for privilege escalation.

Action Item: Avoiding Container Dangerous Capabilities

James de Souza — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:35:39 GMT

Containers should not have dangerous capabilities. Learn how Fairwinds Insights scans your Kubernetes clusters for this.

Action Item: Host IPC

Nung Bedell — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:47:22 GMT

See how to check your host ICP configurations with Fairwinds Insights.