Get your resource requests "Just Right"

Goldilocks is a utility that can help you identify a starting point for resource requests and limits.

Documentation

Check out the documentation at docs.fairwinds.com

How can this help with my resource settings?

By using the kubernetes vertical-pod-autoscaler in recommendation mode, we can see a suggestion for resource requests on each of our apps. This tool creates a VPA for each workload in a namespace and then queries them for information.

Once your VPAs are in place, you'll see recommendations appear in the Goldilocks dashboard:

Notice: Registry Migration and Immutable Images (v4.14.19 → v4.15.0)

Starting with v4.15.0:

• Images moved to us-docker.pkg.dev/fairwinds-ops/oss/goldilocks
• quay.io/fairwinds/goldilocks is deprecated

Required action

- quay.io/fairwinds/goldilocks:<tag>
+ us-docker.pkg.dev/fairwinds-ops/oss/goldilocks:<tag>

Immutable and signed images

• Images are now signed

• Tags are immutable

• No more floating tags:

  • v4
  • v4.14
  • latest

Use full version tags:

us-docker.pkg.dev/fairwinds-ops/oss/goldilocks:v<major>.<minor>.<patch>

Or pin by digest:

us-docker.pkg.dev/fairwinds-ops/oss/goldilocks@sha256:<digest>

Join the Fairwinds Open Source Community

The goal of the Fairwinds Community is to exchange ideas, influence the open source roadmap, and network with fellow Kubernetes users. Chat with us on Slack

Other Projects from Fairwinds

Enjoying Goldilocks? Check out some of our other projects:

• Polaris - Audit, enforce, and build policies for Kubernetes resources, including over 20 built-in checks for best practices
• Pluto - Detect Kubernetes resources that have been deprecated or removed in future versions
• Nova - Check to see if any of your Helm charts have updates available
• rbac-manager - Simplify the management of RBAC in your Kubernetes clusters

Or check out the full list

Fairwinds Insights

If you're interested in running Goldilocks in multiple clusters, tracking the results over time, integrating with Slack, Datadog, and Jira, or unlocking other functionality, check out Fairwinds Insights, a platform for auditing and enforcing policy in Kubernetes clusters.