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Kubernetes as we all know is a complex yet effective system with a lot of moving parts. Pods, services, replica sets, and namespaces are just a few of them. The complexity involved in efficiently managing applications on Kubernetes gave rise… Read More

Rafay is pleased to announce that we have been named a Pilot Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances. This designation recognizes that the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform… Read More

Managing Kubernetes costs efficiently is essential while scaling up in the cloud and Kubernetes world. In a previous blog, we discussed a major gap where more than 68% of organizations either do not monitor Kubernetes costs or simply rely on… Read More

While the growth in cloud computing over the past decade is undeniable, many enterprises expect to continue running some applications in datacenters or colocation environments due to legal, security or regulatory reasons. Examples of such scenarios are listed below: Highly… Read More

For organizations managing user access to numerous Kubernetes clusters at once, maintaining security while ensuring that users can access only the resources they need is a complex balancing act. Oftentimes, teams manage access to each cluster separately, sometimes using jump… Read More

In a previous blog post, Securing Your Kubernetes Environments via Network Policies, we alluded to the value that network policies bring to Kubernetes environments in terms of isolation and reducing the lateral attack surface area, while also articulating some of… Read More

Your organization has committed to modernize its software efforts, you’ve successfully deployed Kubernetes, and you have applications in production. Perhaps you’ve even established a platform team with the goal of implementing a shared services model and improving operational efficiency. While… Read More

The recently released version of Kubernetes v1.25 removed the ‘PodSecurityPolicy (PSP)’ capability. The intent behind PodSecurityPolicy (PSP) was to control security-sensitive aspects of pod specifications by defining the requirements that Pods must meet. If the PSP requirements aren’t met, the… Read More

A platform team can face significant challenges when it comes to operating a dynamic Kubernetes environment with multiple clusters spanning development, testing, and production. Frequent code deployments: In modern application environments, code changes frequently—often multiple times per day. Frequent infrastructure… Read More