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Fairwinds | Remote (US) | Full-Time

Fairwinds is looking for an SRE with Kubernetes experience.

As an SRE at Fairwinds, you’ll work directly with clients to ensure their goals are met through automation, analysis, and infrastructure configuration. Working collaboratively with the other SREs at Fairwinds, your expertise will help our clients succeed with Kubernetes through building robust infrastructure, solving complex problems, maintaining reliable, secure environments, and standing behind our work as a part of our on-call rotation.

https://www.fairwinds.com/careers/openings/site-reliability-...

Fairwinds | Senior Frontend Engineer (React) | Full-Time or Contract - $130-150k | fairwinds.com

https://boards.greenhouse.io/fairwinds/jobs/4776828003

Polaris maintainer here - happy to answer any questions!

Fairwinds | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Remote | Full-time

https://www.fairwinds.com/careers

We're a provider of software and services focused on Kubernetes. We've been remote-first since our inception ~6 years ago, and have built an inclusive, learning-driven engineering culture. We're looking for someone with Kubernetes experience who likes working with customers and solving hard problems.

Fairwinds | Site Reliability Engineer | Remote (US) | Full Time

Fairwinds is a leading provider of Kubernetes software and services. We're looking for an intellectually curious, collaborative, enthusiastic, and flexible engineer to join our team as a Site Reliability Engineer.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/fairwinds/jobs/4196103003

Fairwinds | Remote | Frontend, Product, Sales

Fairwinds is creating Open Source and commercial software to help folks with Kubernetes. We're building an inclusive, remote-first culture with an emphasis on learning and growth. Come join us!

https://boards.greenhouse.io/fairwinds

Fairwinds | Full-Time | Remote | $85k-$180k

Fairwinds is a trusted provider of Kubernetes security and governance software. We're a remote-first organization, with a heavy focus on learning and growth.

We are hiring for two open eng positions:

SRE tech lead: https://boards.greenhouse.io/fairwinds/jobs/4728102003

Frontend Engineer (React): https://boards.greenhouse.io/fairwinds/jobs/4776828003

FYI - Polaris open source has both these things :)

(Disclosure - I'm a maintainer)

Fairwinds | Engineers | Remote (US)

We're looking for folks familiar with Kubernetes. Specifically:

* SREs to help us serve our clients

* A Kubernetes developer to help build k8s-focused software

Apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/fairwinds

Hey all - author here.

Just to clear up any confusion: Polaris is 100% free and open source, under the Apache 2.0 License

Some of the questions below pertain to a commercial product, Fairwinds Insights, which includes Polaris as a plug-in (as well as Goldilocks, kube-bench, kube-hunter, and others). While Insights is a separate (paid) product, it can help folks track the lifecycle of their Polaris findings, collate results across clusters, set up Slack/Datadog alerts, etc.

Sorry if that wasn't clear from the article - happy to answer questions about either!

Agreed per-node pricing is not ideal, but it appears to be an industry standard - most k8s tooling charges per node.

Since different clusters have different node profiles (in terms of size, scaling, etc), we offer discounts on per-node pricing when customers have a large number of nodes.

We're looking at building OPA support into Polaris as well, given how much the community has invested in it. For all the promise of OPA, we haven't seen it gain much traction outside of large enterprises, for many of the reasons we outline in the article.

Polaris is also 100% free. My guess is you're referring to Insights[0], which is a SaaS that incorporates Polaris, as well as several other open source auditing tools. We do offer per-node discounts for customers with a large number of nodes.

[0] https://www.fairwinds.com/insights

Popeye is a very cool project with the same general aim - it checks a lot of the same things as Polaris. It's very much CLI-first (and does an amazing job at that), while Polaris is happy to run as a CLI, a web dashboard, a validating webhook, or a CI/CD check.

kube-score I hadn't heard of, but looks very cool. You're right on matching resources - one of the requests we've gotten is to be able to check that every deployment comes with a PDB, which it looks like kube-score checks. Definitely a feature we're looking into!

Cue looks very cool! We hadn't heard of it when implementing custom checks, but looks like it would have been a contender

Good to know! I might adjust this to do it with a keystroke rather than a click. Anything to make a tedious process faster :)