The Kubernetes Current Blog
Read our thoughts on all things Kubernetes and stay current on the latest news from Rafay
Rafay’s new Environment Manager Enables Developer Self-Service For Modern App Deployments – From Code To Cloud
Today, I am pleased to pre-announce the launch of Rafay Environment Manager, which will be generally available in the 2nd half of this year. Environment Manager is a new, cutting-edge service that provides platform teams with the management, governance, and… Read More
Rafay Named Leader and Outperformer in 2023 GigaOm Radar Report for Managed Kubernetes
All of us at Team Rafay are extremely proud to be recognized as a “Leader” and “Outperformer” in GigaOm’s 2023 Radar Report for Managed Kubernetes. Rafay’s leading position in the Innovator and Platform Play hemispheres highlights our continued innovation and… Read More
Key Considerations When Implementing Virtual Kubernetes Clusters
In a Kubernetes context, multi-tenancy refers to sharing one large cluster among multiple teams, applications, or users primarily in lower environments such as development and testing—mainly to reduce cost and operational overhead around managing many clusters. Multi-tenancy is becoming an… Read More
Architecture and Design Considerations for Platform Engineering Teams
Platform engineering is not a new concept and has existed for a long time in companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and many other large companies. For any large-scale product-engineering team, a platform is a set of standard services,… Read More
Considerations for In-Place Upgrades to Amazon EKS v1.24
Recently, AWS added support for Kubernetes v1.24 for their Amazon EKS offering. One significant change with this version is the removal of Dockershim as the Container Runtime (CRI). Amazon EKS clusters v1.24 onwards are standardized on containerd. New Amazon EKS… Read More
The Kubernetes Crystal Ball: Predictions and Expectations for 2023
2022 was a huge year for Kubernetes. We witnessed significant growth in adoption of the open-source container orchestration system within enterprises given its ability to rapidly scale and manage modern applications. However, Kubernetes still holds its reputation for complexity, which… Read More
Kubernetes Cluster Insights for Platform Teams
Many customers of the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform are Platform Teams. In many cases, the first priority for these platform teams is to take over and standardize existing Kubernetes clusters in active use by application teams. However, one of the… Read More
Takeover Lifecycle Management of Amazon EKS Clusters
We invest a lot of time training our employees, partners and customers on capabilities that are seeing a lot of inbound interest from our customers. Earlier this week, we provided "hands-on, labs-based training" for approximately 30 technologists on a very interesting "capability"… Read More
Enforce mTLS using Rafay’s Managed Service Mesh
We previously provided "hands-on, labs-based training" for approximately 25 technologists on the recently introduced "Managed Service Mesh" capability in the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform. Here's what we set up for the enablement session: Each attendee was provided with their own Kubernetes… Read More
Multi-tenancy: Best practices for shared Kubernetes clusters
Some of the key questions that platform teams have to think about very early on in their K8s journey are: How many clusters should I have? What is the right number for my organization? Should I set up dedicated or… Read More
Seamless Landing Zone For Our Docs
These past few months, we've invested a lot of time as a team working to create a more seamless experience for our customer-facing product documentation. While we built a lot of content covering key functionality of the platform, one of… Read More
New User Experience for Product Documentation
We invest a lot of time in creating and maintaining our customer-facing product documentation. Over the last few years, as we added significant width to our platform, we found ourselves in a situation where the way the content was presented especially… Read More