The Kubernetes Current Blog

As enterprises modernize with cloud-native, they find themselves vulnerable to serious impact due to application vulnerability coupled with a lack of secure runtime configuration (AKA shared responsibility). A single pod or application compromise can put the whole cluster at risk.… Read More

Containers have become increasingly popular as software development shifts from traditional methods to cloud native development and DevOps. In a containerized environment, a single instance of an operating system is shared across apps. For those more familiar with virtual machines,… Read More

Kubernetes monitoring is the process of gathering metrics from the Kubernetes clusters you operate to identify critical events and ensure that all hardware, software, and applications are operating as expected. Monitoring is essential to provide insight into cluster health, resource… Read More

As your Kubernetes environment grows into a multi-cluster, multi-cloud fleet, cluster and workload deployment challenges increase exponentially. It becomes critical to streamline, automate, and standardize operations to avoid having to revisit decisions or perform the same, error-prone manual tasks over… Read More

Kubernetes v1.24 is almost here. In fact, it’s only taken this long because the official release was pushed back twice, from April 15th to 19th and then from April 19th to May 3rd. But it’s finally on the way. So,… Read More

EKS Blueprints helps companies configure Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters that are fully bootstrapped with the operational software that is needed to deploy and operate workloads. Once an EKS blueprint is configured, you can use it to deploy… Read More

In our Kubernetes journey, where Rafay makes it easy to provision and manage cluster lifecycle, we have seen end-users creating unique and sometimes unusual Kubernetes cluster configurations that do not comply with corporate security guidelines and generate increased infrastructure costs.… Read More

Provisioning a Kubernetes cluster is relatively easy. However, each new cluster is the beginning of a very long journey and every cluster you add to your Kubernetes fleet increases management complexity. Many enterprises are struggling to keep up with a… Read More

In a previous blog post, we described how OPA Gatekeeper can be leveraged to enforce policies and strengthen governance in Kubernetes environments. We also covered the challenges customers face when implementing OPA Gatekeeper at scale across many clusters. To summarize,… Read More