Streamline Amazon EKS Operations With Rafay KOP
Rafay’s Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP) delivers the deepest EKS integration in the market, enabling enterprises to operate Amazon EKS clusters across public cloud regions and Amazon EKS-A within their data centers. KOP delivers the automation, security, visibility and governance that enterprise platform teams expect in production-grade Amazon EKS environments running mission-critical modern (containerized) apps.
Kubernetes Operations Features for Amazon EKS
Rafay’s deep Amazon EKS integration means you have one console to manage the operations of your Amazon EKS clusters and applications across AWS regions and in data centers
Hybrid and multi-cloud support
Enables the lifecycle management and blueprinting support for Amazon EKS. This service also incorporates logs/metrics collection, storage management, secrets management, and more.
GitOps for Kubernetes
Enables AWS infrastructure orchestration and application deployment through multi-stage, git-triggered pipelines.
Visibility & Monitoring
Enables development, operations and security/governance teams to globally visualize and monitor modern apps and underlying EKS/EKS-A infrastructure through dedicated dashboards.
Zero-Trust Access
Enables controlled, audited access for developers, SREs and automation systems to Kubernetes infrastructure, with just-in-time service account creation and user-level credentials management, including using AWS IAM.
Blueprints & Drift Detection
Standardize cluster configurations and software add-ons across environments and clouds to achieve compliance
Kubernetes Policy Management
Enable policy management for clusters via the Open Policy Agent (OPA) framework for Kubernetes security and governance.
Network Policy Manager
Enforces isolation boundaries and reduces the lateral attack surface with network flow visualization.
Backup & Restore
Enables disaster recovery and migration of the Kubernetes control plane and application data to Amazon S3.
Environment Manager
1 in 4 enterprises take three months or longer to deploy a modern application due to challenges with provisioning environments. Environment Manager automates environment provisioning and accelerates app deployment.
Kubernetes Operations Features for Amazon EKS
Rafay’s deep Amazon EKS integration means you have one console to manage the operations of your Amazon EKS clusters and applications across AWS regions and in data centers
Centralized Multi-Cluster Management
Deploy, view, manage, and upgrade all of your Amazon EKS (& EKS-A) clusters in any AWS region using Rafay’s self-service workflows
Native GitOps Pipelines
Drive standardized EKS cluster and application deployments and updates using Git as the source of truth
Standardize with EKS Cluster Blueprints & Templates
Use Rafay to easily create and apply cluster blueprints across your fleet of EKS and EKS-A clusters across Amazon, data centers and the edge
Intent-Based Application Deployments
Intelligently deploy your AWS applications where they are needed based on policy, labels, namespaces, geography, etc.
Spot Instance Optimization
Save costs using spot instances for worker nodes. Admins can leverage built-in Rafay workflows for instance-type diversification, automated instance interruption handling, and leveraging auto-scaling groups.
Nodes and Nodegroups
Easily provision both managed and unmanaged nodegroups, and manage nodegroup scaling up and down to zero, as neede
Secure Zero-Trust Access
Manage EKS clusters without inbound access to VPCs or without setting up bastions, while keeping EKS control planes private. Rafay leverages mutually authenticated TLS channels that are spawned dynamically and are tied to enterprise identity systems
SSO & Role-based Access Control
Rafay supports secure AWS credentials as well as delegated IAM capabilities for one-click provisioning/scaling/deprovisioning workflows
Add-On Policies
Easily configure add-on policies for services such as Amazon ECR, AppMesh, ALB Ingress Controller, etc., through Rafay
Full Amazon IAM Support
Rafay fully supports AWS IAM Roles for EKS cluster lifecycle management and doesn't require Amazon secrets to be managed/secured separately. The use of AWS IAM roles is strongly recommended by AWS.
Integrate & Automate
Comprehensive automation for Amazon can be quickly developed by using either our command line interface (RCTL) utility or REST APIs
Centralized Logging & Monitoring
Rafay provides built-in, detailed audit trails for administrative activities across all EKS clusters as well as intuitive, integrated monitoring, visualization and alerts for all EKS and EKS-A clusters under management
Rafay's How-To Guide: Streamlining Amazon EKS Operations
Learn the 4 essential pillars of Kubernetes operations and how to predict operational gaps across automation, security, visibility and governance of clusters.
"The big draw was that you could centralize the lifecycle management & operations."
"Rafay’s thought leadership and white glove support has been fantastic."
"Rafay’s unified view for Kubernetes Operations & deep DevOps expertise has allowed us to significantly increase development velocity."
"Rafay stood out from the crowd with their deep integration with Amazon EKS."
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