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

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

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The Kubernetes Crystal Ball: Predictions and Expectations for 2023

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

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Kubernetes Cluster Insights for Platform Teams

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

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Takeover Lifecycle Management of Amazon EKS Clusters

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

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Multi-tenancy: Best practices for shared Kubernetes clusters

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

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Seamless Landing Zone For Our Docs

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

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New User Experience for Product Documentation

We invest a lot of time in creating and maintaining our customer-facing product documentation. Over the last few years, as we added significant width to our platform, we found ourselves in a situation where the way the content was presented especially… Read More

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Rafay Terraform Provider

Customers can interface with the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform via multiple approaches: Web Console/UI RCTL CLI (with declarative specs) Rafay Terraform Provider Open API Many of our customers that are standardized on the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pattern are heavy… Read More

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Integrated Cost Visibility & Governance for Kubernetes

With Rafay, you can enable visibility into costs associated with your resources in your fleet of Kubernetes clusters in just a single step. categories: Product Blog Training Cost Management Integrated Cost Visibility & Governance for Kubernetes Last week, we wrapped… Read More

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How to Deploy Backstage in Kubernetes With Enterprise-Grade Governance and Automation

With Rafay, you can easily set up open-source Backstage as a means of enabling internal developer platforms and developer self-service on any type of Kubernetes cluster in the following categories: Product Blog Backstage Developer Self-Service Introduction To Backstage Recently, I… Read More

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Cluster Blueprints and Drift Detection

Around three years back, we noticed many of our customers struggling with enterprise-wide standardization of their Kubernetes clusters. Every cluster in their Organization was a snowflake and they were looking for a way to enforce that every cluster had a… Read More

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Learn Basics of Kubernetes: For Everyone

Are you an App Developer struggling to learn the basics of  Kubernetes because you have no time and no access to resources that help you with this in a step-by-step manner? Background Application teams are typically extremely busy with their… Read More