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Provision and Manage Amazon EKS on AWS Outposts with Rafay

AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS capabilities to a customer's facility providing a truly consistent hybrid experience. AWS services run locally on AWS Outposts and can be accessed using familiar AWS APIs and tooling making it ideal for workloads that require low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, or local data storage.

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A Kubernetes Sea Change: The Path to Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes

Our mission at Rafay is pretty simple: empower enterprises and service providers to support modern applications that are critical to them keeping up with the fast-digitizing economy. Why is this important now?

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What We Learned from the Gartner Forecast Analysis: Container Management (Software and Services), Worldwide

In June 2020, Kubernetes celebrated its 6th birthday. In just a few short years, Kubernetes has become the dominant technology employed to manage clusters and their container-based applications.

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Rafay and Amazon Accelerate SonicWall’s Adoption of Containers and Amazon EKS

Rafay and Amazon Accelerate SonicWall’s Adoption of Containers and Amazon EKS When we first talked to Sonicwall, they were already in the process of embracing the cloud and modern application architectures for their products. In addition to standardizing on Docker as their container technology, they chose Amazon as their cloud partner of choice because of their reliability, global footprint, and a deep portfolio of additional managed technology services including but not limited to databases, security, Kubernetes management and logging.

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All Things Kubernetes: 3 Instances When Kubernetes Namespaces Don’t Work

We continue to capture concepts that enterprise customers struggle with in our “All Things Kubernetes” blog series, which we kicked off with a discussion on log aggregation . In each of these blogs, we also focus on highlighting best practices to overcome these challenges.

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Definitive Requirements for Telcos, CDNs and CSPs Launching Kubernetes-as-a-Service

Something has changed in the industry. The number of cloud service providers, Content Delivery Networks and telecommunications companies that are exploring options to offer Kubernetes-as-a-service (KaaS) to enterprise customers is growing at a surprising pace.

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A Differentiated Approach to Scaling Kubernetes Cluster Management & Operations

How Team Rafay is extending Kubernetes to meet the needs of large enterprises and service providers It's been a fast-paced 2 years here at Rafay, with the company maturing into a healthy startup with engaged customers and a very busy engineering team focused on delivering . a turnkey solution for Multi-Cluster Management & Application Operations.

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Rafay Joins CNCF’s Kubernetes Certified Service Provider Program

Rafay Systems is excited to share the news that we are an official Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ( CNCF ) program. With this certification, Rafay Systems joins an elite group of experienced, field-tested and vetted service providers possessing deep Kubernetes expertise who have extensive involvement helping enterprises, service providers and government agencies successfully adopt Kubernetes.

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Kubernetes Best Practices

As a Solution Architect here at Rafay Systems, I get to work with customers and prospects across a wide spectrum of industries. Some of these customers are very early in their Kubernetes journey, while others have been actively using K8s for a very long time.

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Rafay Startup Package

With the changing health & economic situation that all of us are facing, many critical projects in companies are facing delays due to freezes on hiring and deprioritized team training initiatives. Doing more with existing teams, faster, is going to be key.

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"We can build this In-house" is the new Mythical Man Month

The best part of my job is talking to really smart DevOps and Ops/SRE engineers who understand Kubernetes and the surrounding ecosystem well. They understand that running Kubernetes in any meaningful way requires a significant investment in the right people, the right tools, and time.

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Getting started with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed environment for deploying, managing and scaling containerized applications using the Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. The environment that Google Kubernetes Engine provides consists of multiple machines, specifically Google Compute Engine instances, which are grouped together to form a cluster.

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#Kubecon 2019 Takeaway Part 2: It's a Multi-Cluster, Multi-Distro World

This blog was co-authored by Rupinder (Robbie) Gill and Haseeb Budhani . In a previous blog , we discussed reasons why companies are choosing to operate many small clusters.

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#Kubecon 2019 Takeaway Part 1: We Live in a Multi-Cluster World

This blog was co-authored by Rupinder (Robbie) Gill and Haseeb Budhani . Kubecon 2019 was an incredibly engaging event where we had the pleasure of engaging with Kubernetes enthusiasts from a variety of different verticals.

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Getting started with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Kubernetes service (AKS) maintains your hosted Kubernetes environment, making it quick and easy to deploy and manage containerized applications without having a proficiency in container orchestration. It also eliminates the burden of ongoing Kubernetes operations and maintenance by provisioning, upgrading, and scaling resources on demand, without taking your applications offline.

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Getting Started with HashiCorp Vault

Every business needs to pay special attention to security matters. Secrets management is one of the leading security tasks.

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Getting started with Pivotal Container Service (PKS)

Pivotal Container Service (PKS) is a managed Kubernetes service for developers to operate and manage enterprise-grade Kubernetes clusters using BOSH and Pivotal Ops Manager. PKS uses the On-Demand Broker to deploy Cloud Foundry Container Runtime , a BOSH release that offers a uniform way to instantiate, deploy, and manage highly available Kubernetes clusters on a cloud platform using BOSH.

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Getting started with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed Kubernetes to deploy, scale and monitor containerized applications on AWS. Amazon EKS auto-scales worker nodes, including the API servers and back-end persistence layer, across multiple AWS availability zones for high availability and fault tolerance.

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Getting Started with OpenShift

Many Rafay Systems customers use Red Hat OpenShift as their platform of choice for building, deploying, running and scaling Kubernet es containerized applications. OpenShift is flexible and versatile; it can be deployed in public and private clouds, using physical or virtual servers, or both.

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All Things Kubernetes: Application Secrets — Part 2

This blog was originally published on Medium. All Things Kubernetes This is part of a series of blogs on “All Things Kubernetes”.

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All Things Kubernetes: Application Secrets - Part 1

This is part of a series of blogs on “All Things Kubernetes”. Each blog post will focus on highlighting the common issues that people encounter with Kubernetes and how they can overcome these issues.

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Why Rafay

Before beginning our Rafay journey, a number of us on Team Rafay were at another startup called Soha Systems. At Soha, we operated a platform in a multi-cluster (multi-region) environment across multiple cloud provider networks.

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The Ping Mesh

We have all wondered how long it takes to get from here to there. Our younger selves may have asked, "Are we there yet?

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Done: Rafay Achieves Kubernetes Conformance

We at Rafay have received our Kubernetes conformance results from CNCF, joining many other service providers building upon the Kubernetes platform for distributed application management. Kubernetes® is a registered trademark of The Linux Foundation in the United States and other countries, and is used pursuant to a license from The Linux Foundation.

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Rafay and Amazon Accelerate SonicWall’s Adoption of Containers and Amazon EKS

All Things Kubernetes: 3 Instances When Kubernetes Namespaces Don’t Work

Definitive Requirements for Telcos, CDNs and CSPs Launching Kubernetes-as-a-Service

A Differentiated Approach to Scaling Kubernetes Cluster Management & Operations

Rafay Joins CNCF’s Kubernetes Certified Service Provider Program

Kubernetes Best Practices

Rafay Startup Package

"We can build this In-house" is the new Mythical Man Month

Getting started with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

#Kubecon 2019 Takeaway Part 2: It's a Multi-Cluster, Multi-Distro World

#Kubecon 2019 Takeaway Part 1: We Live in a Multi-Cluster World

Getting started with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Getting Started with HashiCorp Vault

Getting started with Pivotal Container Service (PKS)

Getting started with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Getting Started with OpenShift

All Things Kubernetes: Application Secrets — Part 2

All Things Kubernetes: Application Secrets - Part 1

Why Rafay

The Ping Mesh

Done: Rafay Achieves Kubernetes Conformance

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