The Kubernetes Current Blog
Read our thoughts on all things Kubernetes and stay current on the latest news from Rafay
Best Practices for Upgrading Amazon EKS Clusters
Kubernetes is a rapidly evolving open source project with periodic releases. And organizations embracing Kubernetes must adopt the practice of regular upgrades. This is because Kubernetes doesn't follow the Long Term Support (LTS) concept. Instead, they have created a versioning… Read More
Rafay Systems Named a Global Leader in Cloud Computing for Kubernetes Operations with 2021 Stratus Award
We are thrilled to announce that Rafay has won the 2021 Stratus Award for Cloud Computing! Rafay’s Kubernetes Operations Platform was recognized as a leader in the Kubernetes category for the awards program. The Stratus Awards recognize companies and individuals… Read More
Operational Simplicity with Equinix Metal and Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform
Equinix Metal is a fully automated and interconnected bare metal service that enables organizations to automate hardware deployments across Equinix's global data center footprint and interconnection fabric. Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for modern applications being deployed… Read More
Providing Reliable Monitoring of Kubernetes Clusters with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Rafay
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) is a new managed service by Amazon launching in general availability and providing an easy, scalable equivalent to the CNCF open-source Prometheus project. With AMP, enterprises get all the container monitoring benefits of open-source… Read More
Cathy Grim Joins Rafay as Customer Success Executive
We are excited to announce that Cathy Grim has joined Rafay Systems as our new Vice President of Customer Success! As I’m sure existing customers leveraging Rafay’s Kubernetes Operations Platform will attest, Team Rafay is truly a customer-centric organization. It's… Read More
Streamlining Amazon EKS Anywhere Operations with the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform
Amazon EKS Anywhere is a new deployment option for Amazon EKS that enables enterprises to easily create and manage Kubernetes clusters on premises, both on virtual machines (VMs) and bare metal servers. EKS Anywhere provides an installable software package for… Read More
A New Chapter for Rafay Systems, and Kubernetes Operations
Today marks an exciting new chapter for Rafay, as we announce a $25 million Series B funding round led by Alberto, Leo and team at ForgePoint Capital. Our existing investors Ridge Ventures, Costanoa Ventures and Moment Ventures also participated in… Read More
Getting Started with Amazon EKS
Kubernetes is the leading container orchestration engine. It excels in executing application containers and supports many operational aspects like scalability, self-recovery, service-discovery, secrets configuration, workload management and batch execution, rolling updates, etc. All of this results in distributed systems with… Read More
etcd & Kubernetes: What You Should Know
Kubernetes is architected as a set of microservices that manage the lifecycle of containers and coordinate application management tasks such as configuration, deployment, service discovery, load balancing, scheduling, scaling, and monitoring across a fleet of clusters. The microservices-based architecture of… Read More
Rafay Enhances Kubernetes Operations Platform with Enterprise-Grade Security, Standardization and Automation Capabilities
Over the past several years we’ve experienced a tremendous amount of change in the Kubernetes management and container orchestration market. Years ago, Kubernetes was used to support a relatively small number of clusters in lab environments, handling mostly corner use… Read More
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 trends that we will discuss below.… 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