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Getting Started with OpenShift

Many Rafay Systems customers use Red Hat OpenShift as their platform of choice for building, deploying, running and scaling Kubernetes containerized applications. OpenShift is flexible and versatile; it can be deployed in public and private clouds, using physical or virtual… Read More

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All Things Kubernetes: Application Secrets — Part 2

This blog was originally published on Medium. All Things Kubernetes This is part of a series of blogs on “All Things Kubernetes”. Each blog post focused on the common issues that people encounter with Kubernetes and how they can overcome these… Read More

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All Things Kubernetes: Application Secrets – Part 1

This is part of a series of blogs on “All Things Kubernetes”. Each blog post will focus on highlighting the common issues that people encounter with Kubernetes and how they can overcome these issues. This blog was originally posted on Medium… Read More

Why Rafay

Before beginning our Rafay journey, a number of us on Team Rafay were at another startup called Soha Systems. At Soha, we operated a platform in a multi-cluster (multi-region) environment across multiple cloud provider networks. At the time, multi-cloud wasn’t… Read More

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The Ping Mesh

We have all wondered how long it takes to get from here to there. Our younger selves may have asked, "Are we there yet?" Any uncertainty in the answer leads to a sense of angst or concern, which is why… Read More

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Done: Rafay Achieves Kubernetes Conformance

We at Rafay have received our Kubernetes conformance results from CNCF, joining many other service providers building upon the Kubernetes platform for distributed application management. Kubernetes® is a registered trademark of The Linux Foundation in the United States and other… Read More

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Azure & OpenShift: App Lifecycle Management is super important

But Customers are On Their Own to Figure it out.   The industry is clearly recognizing the need for application lifecycle management capabilities needed by devops teams to extract value from all the amazing capabilities that Kubernetes and its associated… Read More

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All Things Kubernetes: Painless Log Application Aggregation

This is the first in a series on “All Things Kubernetes”. Each blog will focus on highlighting the common issues that people encounter with Kubernetes and how they can overcome these issues. In this blog, we will describe the common… Read More

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Haseeb Budhani Interview at CloudExpo 2019 – Transcription

This interview was conducted at the 23rd International Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The full video interview is available here. Roger Strukhoff: We're joined right now by Haseeb Budhani, CEO and Cofounder with… Read More

Airship & Rafay: Automated Cluster Management & Application Distribution

The Combination delivers seamless Lifecycle Management for Bare-Metal Infrastructure, Kubernetes and Containerized Applications for Service Provider Networks  Telcos and service providers such as AT&T and South Korea Telecom (SKT) are leveraging Airship, an Open Infrastructure project, to programmatically bring up… Read More

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The Unintended Consequences of the “Infrastructure as Code” Paradigm

This blog covers a contrarian — possibly heretical — view of the “infrastructure as code” paradigm. TL;DR: If left unchecked, the drive to institutionalize “infrastructure as code” concepts can drive teams to make decisions that negatively impact the business. At DockerCon19, I asked a number of the… Read More

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Perftest Application Now Available on Github

Following up on my earlier post, I am publishing a perftest utility application that measures web page performance, including underlying network latency, and which further demonstrates how to use some of the features of the Rafay platform. First, I want… Read More