Telecommunications / Managed Service Providers

Verizon provides services for their business and government clients, which includes over 500,000 network, hosting and security devices across 4,000 managed networks in 150 countries. They wanted to offer a managed service to help their customers deploy and operate containerized applications across data centers, in the cloud and at the edge. The complexity and overhead required to manage the lifecycle of these edge applications pushed Verizon to leverage Kubernetes technology.

Verizon wanted to rapidly create a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering with an automation framework for managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized application deployment. Building an in-house solution to handle their long list of requirements would have taken too much time.

Verizon isn’t alone. Many other service providers working on innovative technology solutions struggle to deliver next-gen Kubernetes capabilities like global visibility and control, full multi-tenancy, self-service capabilities, a zero-trust security architecture, highly automated cluster provisioning and lifecycle management – all with hard isolation boundaries between customers.

Rafay’s next-gen Kubernetes automation platform was designed to handle these challenges, so managed solution providers can focus on serving their customers instead.