The Kubernetes Current Blog

Read our thoughts on all things Kubernetes and stay current on the latest news from Rafay

Top 5 Takeaways from DZone’s 2021 Kubernetes and the Enterprise Report

Published December 1, 2021

Sean Wilcox

It's hard to believe that Kubernetes (K8s) is not yet even a ten year-old system, as it has fundamentally changed the way thousands of organizations automate their deployment, scaling, and development operations. Recently, DZone -- one of the top media… Read More

GitOps Principles and Workflows Every Team Should Know

Published November 30, 2021

Kyle Hunter

An Operating Model for Dynamic, Distributed Kubernetes Environments Kubernetes clusters have a lot of moving parts—and so does each application running on a cluster. With frequent application and environment updates, the state of every cluster can change rapidly. Operating at… Read More

Kubernetes Cost Visibility and Analytics with Kubecost and Rafay

Published November 19, 2021

Ben Topolski

Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration system that enables organizations to automate modern applications across public clouds, data centers, and the edge. While Kubernetes allows teams to quickly deploy and scale applications, it presents a challenge for IT departments in… Read More

Managing Policies on Kubernetes using OPA Gatekeeper

Published November 16, 2021

Naveen Chakrapani

As customers scale up their Kubernetes (K8s) environments by adding more clusters and applications, it becomes critical to solve for a consistent, repeatable process to enforce policies and strengthen governance without sacrificing development agility. The OPA Gatekeeper project was conceptualized… Read More

Securing Kubernetes: Applying Zero-Trust Principles to Your Kubernetes Environment

Published November 9, 2021

Kyle Hunter

Controlling Kubernetes Access Becomes More Challenging by the Day The footprint of Kubernetes is expanding rapidly as IT teams take advantage of its power, efficiency, and flexibility to develop modern applications quickly and deliver them at scale. You may already… Read More

Intel Partners with Rafay to Help ISVs Deploy Cloud-First Client Infrastructure

Published October 27, 2021

Stephan Benny

Today, Intel, along with several partners including Rafay, announced its Cloud-First Client (CFC) initiative at the Intel Innovation event. We are incredibly excited to be working with Intel, ISVs and enterprises to help enable this ground-breaking strategy and capability. Today,… Read More

Upgrading Amazon EKS Clusters in 2023

Published October 9, 2021

Kyle Hunter

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 and… Read More

Rafay Systems Named a Global Leader in Cloud Computing for Kubernetes Operations with 2021 Stratus Award

Published October 4, 2021

Sean Wilcox

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

Published October 3, 2021

Ben Topolski

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

Published September 29, 2021

Ben Topolski

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

Published September 26, 2021

Haseeb Budhani

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

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