The Kubernetes Current Blog
Read our thoughts on all things Kubernetes and stay current on the latest news from Rafay
Top Kubernetes Takeaways From the 2020 AWS Container Security Survey
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently published the 2020 AWS Container Security Survey results. This survey is a follow-up to the 2019 AWS Container Security Survey. The differences between these two surveys highlight several interesting… Read More
It’s Official: Rafay’s Cloud-based Kubernetes Management Solution is a Hit With Enterprises (800% ARR growth YoY)
Years ago at another company where my co-founder, Hemanth Kavuluru, and I built the security industry’s first software-defined perimeter (SDP) platform, we spent just as much time wrestling with application and infrastructure orchestration as we did developing the solution we… Read More
The Ultimate Guide to Helm Charts
The declarative model of Kubernetes uses Kubernetes Objects stored in configuration files which are essentially a set of YAML files. For every version and instance of a Kubernetes application that DevOps personnel deploy and run in… Read More
Kubernetes Secrets Management with HashiCorp Vault and Rafay
Thanks to Lan Nguyen and Mohan Atreya for their contributions to this blog. Kubernetes and containers enable applications to be instantaneously deployed across public clouds, data centers and the edge. While this enables an organization to be nimble and… Read More
Helm Chart Hooks Tutorial
Helm chart hooks are a useful tool in your Kubernetes deployments and are used to perform certain actions at specific points in a release cycle. Helm supports a variety of hooks and this blog serves as a tutorial to help… Read More
Top 5 Trends for DevOps & Kubernetes in 2021: Welcome the KubeMaster
2020 has been a challenging year for many companies due to the global pandemic, which has had a varying impact on businesses. The software technology industry, for the most part, has been able to react faster to the changing landscape,… Read More
Kubernetes Cluster Backup & Restore with Velero and Rafay
Kubernetes cluster backup and restore is one of the top priorities for DevOps teams and KubeMasters running containerized applications in production. Without this critical capability, organizations run the risk of… Read More
Using Kubernetes (and not VMs) for Edge Computing and Machine Learning
There is near-universal agreement in IT circles that containers and Kubernetes are de facto technologies used for managing modern applications both for on-premises and cloud deployments. But what about emerging use cases such as edge computing and machine learning? Edge… Read More
What is Amazon EKS Distro (EKS D)?
At re:Invent this week, Amazon announced Amazon EKS Distro (AKA EKS-D). But what is EKS-D all about and where or when should you use it? Read on to learn the basics about EKS-D. What is Amazon… Read More
How to Provision and Manage Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) Using Rafay
Today Amazon announced Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D), a Kubernetes distribution based on and used by Amazon EKS. EKS-D enables organizations to create reliable and secure Kubernetes clusters using the same versions of Kubernetes and its dependencies… Read More
Zero-Trust Kubectl Access: The Easiest & Most Secure Option For Managing Kubernetes Clusters
This post was authored by Stephan Benny, Bheema “Sarat” Kaki and Avinash Varma. Rafay delivers a SaaS-first Kubernetes management approach that enables companies to deploy and manage modern applications across data centers, public cloud, and edge… Read More
Verizon Partners with Rafay Systems to Power Cutting-“Edge” Application Kubernetes Platform
Today we are extremely excited to publicly talk about the work we’ve been doing with Verizon over the last year: Verizon announced a new managed offering called… Read More