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Securing Your Kubernetes Environments via Network Policies

Today, one of the most significant benefits of Kubernetes is the ability to quickly deploy and connect applications, whether across namespaces in a cluster or across different cloud environments. By default, a pod/application running in a Kubernetes cluster has the… Read More

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Kubernetes Security: Top 5 Best Practices for Securing Kubernetes Clusters

As more and more of your business-critical applications run in Kubernetes, securing Kubernetes becomes increasingly critical. The ability to operate and secure clusters in a standardized fashion is essential in a rapidly growing Kubernetes environment. If your team has been… Read More

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Unified Management of Multi-OS Kubernetes Clusters

One of the most common enterprise scenarios that engineers deal with today is managing multi-OS platforms or applications. This requires teams to run separate environments for each workload type based on the operating system (OS) and system architectures leading to… Read More

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Powering Developer Self-Service for Application teams using Workspaces

In a previous blog post, we described how platform teams can leverage Rafay’s Cluster Templates capability to enable a self-service model where application teams can provision clusters on demand. And now, platform teams can configure the necessary restrictions on resource… Read More

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Enterprise Best Practices for Solving the Top Kubernetes Security Risks

Countless developers have adopted Kubernetes to help build cloud-native applications. However, many companies still struggle with managing this new environment. In the last few years, companies were not only eager to implement digital tools like VPNs, and antivirus security measures… Read More

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Shared Kubernetes Clusters for Hybrid and Multicloud

Now more than ever, hybrid and multicloud deployments are quickly becoming key enterprise requirements. As Kubernetes adoption in an enterprise grows, effectively managing multicluster deployments becomes increasingly critical to application delivery. To bring Kubernetes usage and hybrid/multicloud infrastructure together, IT… Read More

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What You Should Know About The Rise Of The Platform Organization

Kubernetes is a central force in the cloud-native computing universe. It plays a significant role in most major technology trends today, from containerization and microservices architecture to edge computing to AI and machine learning workloads. Around 5.6 million developers now… Read More

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5 Practices for Kubernetes Operations with Amazon EKS

In the past several years, organizations of all sizes and verticals have helped to accelerate their IT development pipelines using containerized applications orchestrated by Kubernetes (K8s) and the cloud. But to achieve optimum efficiency, many of these organizations are looking… Read More

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The Innate Risk of VMware Tanzu with Broadcom Acquisition

Have you heard the news of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware for $61B? I personally have had flashbacks of Dell’s acquisition of EMC (which included VMware). Both of these were groundbreaking in terms of being one of the largest tech deals… Read More

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Easily Deploy Approved Technologies and Full-Stack Solutions with Custom Catalogs

As customers scale up their Kubernetes (K8s) environments, it becomes critical to create a process that ensures only applications that are vetted and approved are deployed to clusters. Without that, it is impossible for customers to standardize clusters, implement best… Read More

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What is Container Management?

Containerization is a popular means to package application code and associated dependencies for increased code portability. Containers also encourage faster and more efficient software development. You need a clear and proven way to organize your containers so you can easily… Read More

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Streamlining Kubernetes Operations for Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS-A) for Bare Metal Environments

Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS-A) now supports a deployment option to provision Kubernetes clusters on bare metal environments such as data centers. EKS Anywhere provides an installable software package for creating and managing Kubernetes clusters in data centers, along with tooling… Read More