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Simplify Policy Management with Rafay and OPA Gatekeeper

In a previous blog post , we described how OPA Gatekeeper can be leveraged to enforce policies and strengthen governance in Kubernetes environments. We also covered the challenges customers face when implementing OPA Gatekeeper at scale across many clusters.

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The Hidden Costs of Building and Managing Kubernetes Clusters with Rancher Open Source

Enterprise IT departments are always on the quest for the best return on investment (ROI) for any technology investment. Understanding the ROI with an open source technology provides its own unique challenges because one important factor in determining the ROI is TCO, or total cost of ownership.

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Rafay Systems has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Container Management

Rafay Systems has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Container Management Rafay Systems has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Container Management. * We believe that being included in this market guide report underscores that Rafay’s global customer base and Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) teams recognize value in the company’s unique approach for operating Kubernetes infrastructure and modern, containerized applications.

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Multi-cluster Kubernetes Management and Access

As cloud and Kubernetes have become a standard, security remains one of the top inhibitors to modern application development. To reduce security risks, organizations can’t manage access control on a cluster-by-cluster basis.

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How a Hosted Software Delivery Model Differs from SaaS for Kubernetes Management and Operations

Over the past several decades a debate has raged between software as a service (SaaS) and on-premises (or in VPC) software delivery models. Both approaches make sense depending on the use case for the reasons that will be described below, however, enterprises should carefully evaluate each in order to determine the approach that best meets their needs.

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Run Containers and VMs Together with KubeVirt

Although many enterprises have deployed Kubernetes and containers, most also operate virtual machines. The two environments will likely co-exist for years, creating operational complexity, adding cost in terms of time and infrastructure.

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Four Pillars of Kubernetes Fleet Management

With the success of Kubernetes (K8s), many teams have gone from operating just a handful of clusters to operating “fleets” of K8s clusters—both on-premises and in the cloud. As if the growing pains that come with scaling clusters rapidly aren’t bad enough, having a growing number of applications on different clouds, running different K8s distributions and many add-ons has resulted in significant management challenges.

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AKS vs. EKS: The Battle of Managed Kubernetes Services

Developers love containerization, and Kubernetes (K8s) is the best open-source system for deploying and managing multi-container applications at scale. However, a significant challenge is choosing the best managed Kubernetes service for your application development.

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What is a Shared Services Platform for Kubernetes?

Enterprises around the globe are modernizing their IT architecture and applications for many well-known business reasons, including boosting productivity, increasing agility, and reducing capital costs. By centralizing the delivery of Kubernetes (K8s) services, IT is able to standardize workflows, enable self-service, and optimize application delivery for multiple teams across the enterprise, such as engineering, QA, DevOps, security, and operations.

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Apiiro Warns Companies of ArgoCD 0-Day Vulnerability

Argo CD is a popular open-source continuous delivery (CD) platform that is used by thousands of organizations globally. Recently, a serious vulnerability was uncovered by Apiiro which enables attackers to access sensitive information, such as secrets, passwords, and API keys.

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Best Practices, Tools, and Approaches for Kubernetes Monitoring

In a Kubernetes environment, applications operate across multiple nodes within a cluster, and application services can be distributed across multiple clusters and multiple clouds, making tracking the health of an application and the infrastructure it depends on quite challenging. Kubernetes monitoring is the process of gathering metrics from the Kubernetes clusters you operate to identify critical events and ensure that all hardware, software, and applications are operating as expected.

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What’s New in Kubernetes v1.23

Many people already have eyes on the upcoming Kubernetes v1. 24, which is scheduled for an official rollout on Tuesday, April 19, 2022.

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3 Steps to Streamline Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Management

The footprint of Kubernetes is expanding rapidly in all industries. Many enterprises already operate multiple Kubernetes clusters in multiple regions to address the needs of global operations and reduce application latency for customers worldwide.

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Why Run Virtual Machines on Kubernetes?

Containers and Kubernetes are technologies that provide a repeatable, standard way to run applications. The main differences are in terms of scale and portability.

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Automating Backup for Your K8s Workloads with Rafay and CloudCasa

Having a backup and disaster recovery plan for enterprises has long been a best practice to minimize business risk and be able to quickly recover in the event of a cyber attack, system outage/failure, natural disaster, and more. With enterprises moving more production workloads to Kubernetes, they need to provide the same enterprise critical backup and recovery services for this new modern architecture as they did for their legacy workloads and architecture.

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Rafay Extends Amazon EKS Operations Support for 5G Edge Applications using AWS Wavelength

As deployment of 5G networks continues to expand and become more widespread globally, technologies such as AWS Wavelength are an integral part of supporting applications on the edge of these networks. First launched in August of 2020, AWS Wavelength allows solution providers to use AWS compute and storage services, including Amazon EKS clusters, within supported carrier 5G networks to build and run high performance and low latency applications.

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7 Common Kubernetes Backup & Recovery Mistakes

As enterprises move Kubernetes into production and increase the number of Kubernetes clusters and applications in use, they need to deliver the same “enterprise-level” services as for other production applications. Implementing Kubernetes backup is critical to protect your applications in the event of an accident, system failure, or deliberate attack.

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Top 5 Takeaways from DZone’s 2021 Kubernetes and the Enterprise Report

It's hard to believe that Kubernetes (K8s) is not yet even a ten year-old system, as it has fundamentally changed the way thousands of organizations automate their deployment, scaling, and development operations. Recently, DZone -- one of the top media outlets for IT pros and developers -- released their annual Kubernetes and the Enterprise report .

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GitOps Principles and Workflows Every Team Should Know

An Operating Model for Dynamic, Distributed Kubernetes Environments Kubernetes clusters have a lot of moving parts—and so does each application running on a cluster. With frequent application and environment updates, the state of every cluster can change rapidly.

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Kubernetes Cost Visibility and Analytics with Kubecost and Rafay

Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration system that enables organizations to automate modern applications across public clouds, data centers, and the edge. While Kubernetes allows teams to quickly deploy and scale applications, it presents a challenge for IT departments in understanding the cost of Kuberenetes and containerized applications.

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Managing Policies on Kubernetes using OPA Gatekeeper

As customers scale up their Kubernetes (K8s) environments by adding more clusters and applications, it becomes critical to solve for a consistent, repeatable process to enforce policies and strengthen governance without sacrificing development agility. The OPA Gatekeeper project was conceptualized to provide the necessary tooling to help address this problem.

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Securing Kubernetes: Applying Zero-Trust Principles to Your Kubernetes Environment

Controlling Kubernetes Access Becomes More Challenging by the Day The footprint of Kubernetes is expanding rapidly as IT teams take advantage of its power, efficiency, and flexibility to develop modern applications quickly and deliver them at scale. You may already have a large number of development and production Kubernetes clusters spread across on-premises data centers, multiple public cloud providers, and edge locations.

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Intel Partners with Rafay to Help ISVs Deploy Cloud-First Client Infrastructure

Today, Intel, along with several partners including Rafay, announced its Cloud-First Client (CFC) initiative at the Intel Innovation event. We are incredibly excited to be working with Intel, ISVs and enterprises to help enable this ground-breaking strategy and capability.

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Upgrading Amazon EKS Clusters in 2023

Kubernetes is a rapidly evolving open-source project with periodic releases. And organizations embracing Kubernetes must adopt the practice of regular upgrades.

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Simplify Policy Management with Rafay and OPA Gatekeeper

The Hidden Costs of Building and Managing Kubernetes Clusters with Rancher Open Source

Rafay Systems has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Container Management

Multi-cluster Kubernetes Management and Access

How a Hosted Software Delivery Model Differs from SaaS for Kubernetes Management and Operations

Run Containers and VMs Together with KubeVirt

Four Pillars of Kubernetes Fleet Management

AKS vs. EKS: The Battle of Managed Kubernetes Services

What is a Shared Services Platform for Kubernetes?

Apiiro Warns Companies of ArgoCD 0-Day Vulnerability

Best Practices, Tools, and Approaches for Kubernetes Monitoring

What’s New in Kubernetes v1.23

3 Steps to Streamline Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Management

Why Run Virtual Machines on Kubernetes?

Automating Backup for Your K8s Workloads with Rafay and CloudCasa

Rafay Extends Amazon EKS Operations Support for 5G Edge Applications using AWS Wavelength

7 Common Kubernetes Backup & Recovery Mistakes

Top 5 Takeaways from DZone’s 2021 Kubernetes and the Enterprise Report

GitOps Principles and Workflows Every Team Should Know

Kubernetes Cost Visibility and Analytics with Kubecost and Rafay

Managing Policies on Kubernetes using OPA Gatekeeper

Securing Kubernetes: Applying Zero-Trust Principles to Your Kubernetes Environment

Intel Partners with Rafay to Help ISVs Deploy Cloud-First Client Infrastructure

Upgrading Amazon EKS Clusters in 2023

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