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

Introducing the Rafay Plugins For Backstage to Enable Developer Self-Service Through One-Click Kubernetes Cluster, Namespace, and Environment Provisioning

Published April 17, 2023

Abhinav Mishra

Today, I am pleased to announce the launch of the Rafay Plugins for Backstage, which will be generally available in the 2nd half of this year. For those who are unfamiliar with Backstage, it is an open source project by… Read More

Announcing our New Preview Environment

Published April 13, 2023

Mohan Atreya

We just rolled out "enhancements'' and "new functionality" from our upcoming v1.24 release to our Preview environment. This release will be promoted to our "Production" environment in a few weeks. Learn more about our Preview Environment and about the enhancements… Read More

Rafay’s new Environment Manager Enables Developer Self-Service For Modern App Deployments – From Code To Cloud

Published March 20, 2023

Abhinav Mishra

Today, I am pleased to pre-announce the launch of Rafay Environment Manager, which will be generally available in the 2nd half of this year. Environment Manager is a new, cutting-edge service that provides platform teams with the management, governance, and… Read More

Rafay Named Leader and Outperformer in 2023 GigaOm Radar Report for Managed Kubernetes

Published March 16, 2023

Sean Wilcox

All of us at Team Rafay are extremely proud to be recognized as a “Leader” and “Outperformer” in GigaOm’s 2023 Radar Report for Managed Kubernetes. Rafay’s leading position in the Innovator and Platform Play hemispheres highlights our continued innovation and… Read More

10 Key Considerations When Implementing Virtual Kubernetes Clusters

Published March 7, 2023

Hemanth Kavuluru

In a Kubernetes context, multi-tenancy refers to sharing one large cluster among multiple teams, applications, or users primarily in lower environments such as development and testing—mainly to reduce cost and operational overhead around managing many clusters. Multi-tenancy is becoming an… Read More

Architecture and Design Considerations for Platform Engineering Teams

Published March 6, 2023

Hemanth Kavuluru

Platform engineering is not a new concept and has existed for a long time in companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and many other large companies. For any large-scale product-engineering team, a platform is a set of standard services,… Read More

Considerations for In-Place Upgrades to Amazon EKS v1.24

Published February 20, 2023

Mohan Atreya

Recently, AWS added support for Kubernetes v1.24 for their Amazon EKS offering. One significant change with this version is the removal of Dockershim as the Container Runtime (CRI). Amazon EKS clusters v1.24 onwards are standardized on containerd. New Amazon EKS… Read More

The Kubernetes Crystal Ball: Predictions and Expectations for 2023

Published February 10, 2023

Haseeb Budhani

2022 was a huge year for Kubernetes. We witnessed significant growth in adoption of the open-source container orchestration system within enterprises given its ability to rapidly scale and manage modern applications. However, Kubernetes still holds its reputation for complexity, which… Read More

Kubernetes Cluster Insights for Platform Teams

Published February 7, 2023

Mohan Atreya

Many customers of the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform are Platform Teams. In many cases, the first priority for these platform teams is to take over and standardize existing Kubernetes clusters in active use by application teams. However, one of the… Read More

Takeover Lifecycle Management of Amazon EKS Clusters

Published January 22, 2023

Mohan Atreya

We invest a lot of time training our employees, partners and customers on capabilities that are seeing a lot of inbound interest from our customers. Earlier this week, we provided "hands-on, labs-based training" for approximately 30 technologists on a very interesting "capability"… Read More

Multi-tenancy: Best practices for shared Kubernetes clusters

Published January 21, 2023

Naveen Chakrapani

Some of the key questions that platform teams have to think about very early on in their K8s journey are: How many clusters should I have? What is the right number for my organization? Should I set up dedicated or… Read More

Seamless Landing Zone For Our Docs

Published January 20, 2023

Abhinav Mishra

These past few months, we've invested a lot of time as a team working to create a more seamless experience for our customer-facing product documentation. While we built a lot of content covering key functionality of the platform, one of… Read More