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EKS Anywhere Bare Metal Cluster Management Made Easy with Rafay

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a popular container orchestration system used by many businesses. One of the options available with EKS is EKS Anywhere for Bare Metal environments, which allows you to run Kubernetes on your own hardware. While… Read More

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Key Kubernetes Challenges for AI/ML in the Enterprise – Part 1

This blog is based on our learnings over the last two years as we worked very closely with our customers who use Kubernetes for AI/ML extensively. This is part-1 of a two-part series. In part-1, we will - Start by looking… Read More

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Announcing our April 2023 (v1.24) Release

A few weeks back in early April 2023, we upgraded our Preview environment to v1.24 of the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform. We sincerely thank our customers and partners who have been testing the new functionality. We have received timely feedback… Read More

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The Straight Stroop from KubeCon EU 2023, Amsterdam

The Rafay team had the opportunity to attend CNCF’s KubeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam in full force last week. As a sponsor, we spent time with 1000's of attendees helping them understand Rafay’s Kubernetes Operations Platform. As a maintainer of… Read More

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Deepen Your Kubernetes Knowledge and Grow Your Career with Rafay Certification

Today I’m incredibly excited to announce our new Rafay Certification program for Rafay customers! The Rafay Certification program equips participants with best practices that gain efficiencies from Kubernetes almost immediately, thus speeding digital transformation initiatives while keeping Kubernetes operating costs… Read More

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How Platform Teams can enable developers to use their preferred Kubernetes Tools

There are cases where developers may prefer to use tools on their laptops such as Lens Desktop to visualize resources and interact with Kubernetes clusters. The use of a desktop based app such as Lens can be a better user experience for… Read More

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

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

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Announcing our New Preview Environment

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

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

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

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

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

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10 Key Considerations When Implementing Virtual Kubernetes Clusters

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

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Architecture and Design Considerations for Platform Engineering Teams

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