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User Access Reports for Kubernetes

Access reviews are required and mandated by regulations such as SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI, NYDFS, and SOC-2. Access reviews are critical to help organizations maintain a strong risk management posture and uphold compliance.

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EC2 vs. Fargate for Amazon EKS: A Cost Comparison

When it comes to running workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS), two popular choices are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and AWS Fargate. Both have their merits, but understanding their cost implications is crucial for making an informed decision.

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Kubernetes Management with Amazon EKS

Kubernetes management is the process of administering your Kubernetes clusters, their node fleets, and their workloads. Organizations seeking to use Kubernetes at scale must understand effective management strategies so they can successfully operate containerized applications without sacrificing observability, security, and control.

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Mastering Kubernetes Management: Challenges and Best Practices

Kubernetes empowers you to reliably operate and scale cloud-native apps, but it can be daunting to manage your Kubernetes clusters and their associated infrastructure resources. The need to maintain consistent configuration, enforce correct security policies, and gain clear visibility into your clusters and their workloads is an acute issue that should be addressed before you start using Kubernetes in production—otherwise, you're liable to suffer from usability challenges or even costly compliance breaches.

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LLMOps for Platform Teams: How LLMOps Powers the GenAI Revolution

Generative AI has risen to prominence as the next technology revolution. It's driven by the surging adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT and Llama, machine learning models that are capable of understanding the meaning of written text to then produce new content.

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Navigating MLOps for Platform Teams: Key Challenges and Emerging Best Practices

MLOps is a new discipline that defines processes and best practices for effectively managing machine learning (ML) development and deployment workflows. With demand for ML and generative AI apps representing the latest push in the software industry, it's increasingly crucial you can utilize these technologies effectively within your products.

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Rafay honored as Gold Stevie® Award Winner in 2024 American Business Awards®

Gold is our new favorite color. This year, more than 300 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s American Business, a.

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Navigating Container Management Challenges: Strategies for Security, Integration, and Troubleshooting

Containers have transformed how software is built and deployed but they pose unique management challenges that can be daunting for DevOps teams to address. You need an effective strategy to mitigate security risks, integrate containers with legacy systems, and troubleshoot problems that affect your containerized apps and their host environments.

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CPU vs GPU: What’s the Difference for AI/ML Workloads?

This is a multi-series blog on GPUs, how they intersect with Kubernetes and containers. In this blog, we will discuss how CPUs and GPUs are architecturally similar and different.

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Advanced EKS Optimization Strategies for Performance and Cost Efficiency

Amazon's Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) makes it easy to provision and operate cloud-hosted Kubernetes clusters using AWS. It's a managed service that automates the process of creating a control plane and connecting AWS EC2 instances that act as cluster nodes.

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Rafay Unveils Groundbreaking Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Innovations for AI Workloads

In the bustling world of technology, innovation is the lifeblood of progress. At Team Rafay, we continue to innovate and challenge ourselves to go farther than we thought possible.

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Mastering Kubernetes Namespaces: Advanced Isolation, Resource Management, and Multi-Tenancy Strategies

Kubernetes namespaces let you separate logical groups of resources within a single Kubernetes cluster. They’re used to share clusters between different apps and provide platform teams with many benefits including improved operating efficiency, less cluster sprawl, and reduced infrastructure spending—a particular benefit given spinning up new clusters can quickly become expensive.

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Demystifying Kubernetes Cloud Cost Management: Strategies for Visibility, Allocation, and Optimization

Kubernetes cloud cost management is the process of tracking, attributing, and reducing the expenses associated with running clusters in the cloud. Although Kubernetes can improve DevOps operational efficiency, it's often challenging to control costs across multiple apps and teams.

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How Rafay Helps Sovereign & GPU Cloud Companies Accelerate Time to Market

The Generative AI (GenAI) gold rush is in full swing, and a new use case is fast emerging globally: Sovereign Clouds for AI workloads, a. k.

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What is JupyterHub? A Beginner’s Guide

This is part of a blog series on AI/Machine Learning. In the previous blog , we discussed Jupyter Notebooks, how they are different and the challenges organizations run into at scale with it.

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Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks

Jupyter Notebook is open-source software created and maintained by the Jupyter community . A Jupyter notebook allows for the creation and sharing of documents with code and rich text elements .

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Introducing Rafay’s Generative AI based Copilot

As part of our early March 2024 release, we opened up Rafay’s Generative AI based Copilot to our customers. For the folks that are active readers of our product blogs, you will recognize that this is the result of a GenAI focused Hackathon we ran in late 2023.

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Resize and Right Size Applications on Kubernetes

It is a well understood fact on Kubernetes that there is a significant amount of wastage of expensive cloud/infrastructure because of over provisioned applications. In this blog, we will look at how app developers and platform teams can save their organizations millions of dollars by right-sizing their applications using a free , open-source tool appropriately called resize that we recently developed for our customers.

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Choosing Between Amazon ECS and EKS

We frequently get asked by users that are currently on AWS whether they should be using Amazon ECS or EKS to deploy and operate their containerized applications. Since this is such a common question and the answers are somewhat nuanced, we wanted to share our thoughts and recommendations for the benefit of all users.

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Unlocking AI Innovation: Launching the Rafay RAG-a-Thon at NVIDIA GTC!

Welcome, AI tech enthusiasts, innovators, and problem solvers! Today marks an exciting moment as we introduce the community to the work we’ve been doing here at Rafay through a RAG-focused hackathon – called a RAG-a-Thon – this week during NVIDIA’s GTC event!

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Rafay is a DevOps Dozen Winner for the Best Kubernetes Platform/Service

The 2023 DevOps Dozen Award results are in: Rafay was awarded the title of Best Kubernetes Platform/Service! The adoption of containers has paved the way for an entire solutions ecosystem supporting and enhancing container technology.

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Harnessing the Edge: 3 Kubernetes for Edge Computing Strategies

Introduction: The Edge of Tomorrow Imagine a world where data latency is a relic of the past. In our connected society, edge computing seeks to bring data processing closer to its source—be it a remote store, hotel, or any other location that uses an edge device, as well as telecom and data centers.

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Rafay Releases 4 New Certifications for Customers and Partners

Today marks another red-letter day in the history of Rafay Systems. We are launching 4 new certifications as part of the Rafay Training program.

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Auto-Scaling K8s Applications on Amazon EKS: 8 Best Practices and Tips

Auto-scaling, a dynamic and intelligent approach to resource provisioning, is one of the defining features of Kubernetes. It allows applications to automatically adjust their capacity based on real-time metrics and policies, ensuring optimal performance and cost-effectiveness.

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EC2 vs. Fargate for Amazon EKS: A Cost Comparison

Kubernetes Management with Amazon EKS

Mastering Kubernetes Management: Challenges and Best Practices

LLMOps for Platform Teams: How LLMOps Powers the GenAI Revolution

Navigating MLOps for Platform Teams: Key Challenges and Emerging Best Practices

Rafay honored as Gold Stevie® Award Winner in 2024 American Business Awards®

Navigating Container Management Challenges: Strategies for Security, Integration, and Troubleshooting

CPU vs GPU: What’s the Difference for AI/ML Workloads?

Advanced EKS Optimization Strategies for Performance and Cost Efficiency

Rafay Unveils Groundbreaking Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Innovations for AI Workloads

Mastering Kubernetes Namespaces: Advanced Isolation, Resource Management, and Multi-Tenancy Strategies

Demystifying Kubernetes Cloud Cost Management: Strategies for Visibility, Allocation, and Optimization

How Rafay Helps Sovereign & GPU Cloud Companies Accelerate Time to Market

What is JupyterHub? A Beginner’s Guide

Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks

Introducing Rafay’s Generative AI based Copilot

Resize and Right Size Applications on Kubernetes

Choosing Between Amazon ECS and EKS

Unlocking AI Innovation: Launching the Rafay RAG-a-Thon at NVIDIA GTC!

Rafay is a DevOps Dozen Winner for the Best Kubernetes Platform/Service

Harnessing the Edge: 3 Kubernetes for Edge Computing Strategies

Rafay Releases 4 New Certifications for Customers and Partners

Auto-Scaling K8s Applications on Amazon EKS: 8 Best Practices and Tips

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