Leverage Rafay’s Integrated Service Mesh Manager to take the Hassle Out of...
As organizations embrace microservices based architecture, they run into challenges in terms of authentication and authorization, traffic routing between various services or versions, load balancing...
View ArticleIntegrated Cost Visibility & Governance for Kubernetes
With Rafay, you can enable visibility into costs associated with your resources in your fleet of Kubernetes clusters in just a single step. categories: Product Blog Training Cost Management Integrated...
View ArticleRafay Terraform Provider
Customers can interface with the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform via multiple approaches: Web Console/UI RCTL CLI (with declarative specs) Rafay Terraform Provider Open API Many of our customers...
View ArticleNew User Experience for Product Documentation
We invest a lot of time in creating and maintaining our customer-facing product documentation. Over the last few years, as we added significant width to our platform, we found ourselves in a situation...
View ArticleSeamless Landing Zone For Our Docs
These past few months, we’ve invested a lot of time as a team working to create a more seamless experience for our customer-facing product documentation. While we built a lot of content covering key...
View ArticleMulti-tenancy: Best practices for shared Kubernetes clusters
Some of the key questions that platform teams have to think about very early on in their K8s journey are: How many clusters should I have? What is the right number for my organization? Should I set up...
View ArticleEnforce mTLS using Rafay’s Managed Service Mesh
We previously provided “hands-on, labs-based training” for approximately 25 technologists on the recently introduced “Managed Service Mesh” capability in the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform....
View ArticleTakeover Lifecycle Management of Amazon EKS Clusters
We invest a lot of time training our employees, partners and customers on capabilities that are seeing a lot of inbound interest from our customers. Earlier this week, we provided “hands-on, labs-based...
View ArticleKubernetes Cluster Insights for Platform Teams
Many customers of the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform are Platform Teams. In many cases, the first priority for these platform teams is to take over and standardize existing Kubernetes clusters in...
View ArticleThe Kubernetes Crystal Ball: Predictions and Expectations for 2023
2022 was a huge year for Kubernetes. We witnessed significant growth in adoption of the open-source container orchestration system within enterprises given its ability to rapidly scale and manage...
View ArticleConsiderations for In-Place Upgrades to Amazon EKS v1.24
Recently, AWS added support for Kubernetes v1.24 for their Amazon EKS offering. One significant change with this version is the removal of Dockershim as the Container Runtime (CRI). Amazon EKS...
View ArticleKey Considerations When Implementing Virtual Kubernetes Clusters
In a Kubernetes context, multi-tenancy refers to sharing one large cluster among multiple teams, applications, or users primarily in lower environments such as development and testing—mainly to reduce...
View ArticleRafay Named Leader and Outperformer in 2023 GigaOm Radar Report for Managed...
All of us at Team Rafay are extremely proud to be recognized as a “Leader” and “Outperformer” in GigaOm’s 2023 Radar Report for Managed Kubernetes. Rafay’s leading position in the Innovator and...
View ArticleRafay’s new Environment Manager Enables Developer Self-Service For Modern App...
Today, I am pleased to pre-announce the launch of Rafay Environment Manage, which will be generally available in the 2nd half of this year. Environment Manager is a new, cutting-edge service that...
View ArticleArchitecture and Design Considerations for Platform Engineering Teams
Platform engineering is not a new concept and has existed for a long time in companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and many other large companies. For any large-scale product-engineering...
View ArticleAnnouncing our New Preview Environment
We just rolled out “enhancements” and “new functionality” from our upcoming v1.24 release to our Preview environment. This release will be promoted to our “Production” environment in a few weeks. Learn...
View ArticleIntroducing the Rafay Plugins For Backstage to Enable Developer Self-Service...
Today, I am pleased to announce the launch of the Rafay Plugins for Backstage, which will be generally available in the 2nd half of this year. For those who are unfamiliar with Backstage, it is an open...
View ArticleDeepen Your Kubernetes Knowledge and Grow Your Career with Rafay Certification
Today I’m incredibly excited to announce our new Rafay Certification program for Rafay customers! The Rafay Certification program equips participants with best practices that gain efficiencies from...
View ArticleHow Platform Teams can enable developers to use their preferred Kubernetes Tools
There are cases where developers may prefer to use tools on their laptops such as Lens Desktop to visualize resources and interact with Kubernetes clusters. The use of a desktop based app such as Lens...
View ArticleThe Straight Stroop from KubeCon EU 2023, Amsterdam
The Rafay team had the opportunity to attend CNCF’s KubeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam in full force last week. As a sponsor, we spent time with 1000’s of attendees helping them understand Rafay’s...
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