Why Rafay?

PaaS for Modern Infrastructure and
Accelerated Computing

Rafay’s PaaS for CPU and GPU workloads lets developers and data scientists easily consume cloud and compute resources – with guardrails included

 

Is Rafay right for you?

If any of the below relate to your platform, developer, data scientists or operations/
SRE teams, Rafay is definitely worth a look.

 

Is it difficult to centrally define and enforce consistent configs and workflows across your entire infrastructure?

Are you having difficulty efficiently managing the cluster lifecycle for EKS, AKS, or GKE?

Are you buried in manual work associated with managing the lifecycle of Kubernetes in a private data center?

Is it difficult to dynamically allocate GPUs for data scientists and offer ML workbench as a service?

Are your developers spending too much time requesting and waiting for landing zones or compute instead of innovating?

Rafay accelerates your public and private cloud modernization journey

The below is a typical journey Rafay powers for enterprises. First, enterprises standardize
environments across all public and private clouds, centrally manage the lifecycle of all resources,
and continuously optimize cloud costs. Next, they enable the same for their AI operations and
provide self-service capabilities to developers and data scientists.

 

Learn more about Rafay’s Product suite

Accelerate Cloud-native Adoption

Leverage Rafay to standardize and centralize landing zones and Kubernetes environments, deliver self-service workflows, and keep infrastructure costs low



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Accelerate AI/ML Adoption

Easily manage the underlying AI infrastructure and AI/ML tooling your data scientists need to innovate faster, with guardrails included.



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Key Differentiators

With Rafay, platform teams leverage a single, enterprise-grade, platform to automate self-service workflows for cloud infrastructure provisioning and management. Our platform as a service delivers the following features and capabilities out of the box:

 

SaaS-First Approach

Rafay deploys in minutes, with all the benefits of the cloud including instant scalability, automatic updates, >99.99% uptime and the lowest TCO. Companies requiring air-gapped deployments for compliance and regulatory reasons can deploy Rafay on-premises.

Zero-Trust Fabric Built-in

Rafay does not require inbound access to your cloud infrastructure. Zero-Trust Access governs all activity by end-users as well as CI/CD systems with role-based access control (RBAC) and auditing of all actions.

Scalability & Fleet Management

Rafay allows platform teams to manage their fleets collectively. Create, deploy, operate, monitor, upgrade and retire 1 or 1,000+ clusters or environments just as easily across any number of regions or clouds.

Multi-Cloud Interoperability

Rafay supports every public or private cloud, including all major distributions of Kubernetes and services leveraged by cloud environments. This supports our customers’ cloud migration strategies and allows them to avoid vendor lock-in.

Seamless Enterprise Integrations

Rafay includes integrations with Okta, AzureAD, Jenkins, Hashicorp Terraform & Vault, Datadog … and many more are just a few clicks away.

Market-Leading Support

When blogs and community resources aren’t enough, partner with Rafay’s deep bench of certified cloud automation experts to jump-start & customize your application modernization journey.

Rafay’s Benefits Are Felt Across the Organization

Zero downtime

across mission critical workloads for oncology R&D and analytics

 

Saved over $1M

from being spent on excess cloud costs and operational inefficiency

 

Deployment rates up 4x

which empowers developers to iterate faster and accelerate their innovation

 

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is SaaS the right consumption model for Kubernetes operations?

With Rafay’s SaaS approach, enterprises can take advantage of all the benefits of a Kubernetes Operations Platform while also enjoying all the benefits of the cloud including ease of use, being up and running in minutes, no management of administrative clusters, and automatically scaling to handle hundreds of clusters.

 

Is the Rafay platform competitive with Amazon EKS?

No. Rafay provides a level of automation, security, viability and governance on top of EKS (and also for Azure AKS and GCP GKE). As a result, many Rafay customers use EKS and leverage Rafay to streamline EKS lifecycle management, along with application deployment and governance requirements for containerized apps running in EKS.

 

Does Rafay compete with Rancher?

Although Rancher delivers a number of Kubernetes cluster management capabilities, there are a number of reasons why enterprises are choosing Rafay over Rancher: Rancher is not delivered as a SaaS offering, which is the preferred consumption model for many enterprises; Rancher isn’t architected with zero-trust principles in mind; Rancher doesn’t support enterprise-level multi-tenancy; Rancher doesn’t support native capabilities for GitOps-based application deployment, cluster backup/restore, and more. Net-net Rancher is a great tool for basic cluster automation and visibility, while enterprises are looking for a Kubernetes Operations Platform that delivers automation, security, visibility and governance capability for both clusters and containerized applications.

 

We already have clusters up and running. Why do we need to partner with Rafay?

Provisioning clusters is the first step on a long journey towards Kubernetes operational excellence. Even if you prefer to keep leveraging your preferred methodology for cluster provisioning, you can easily import your clusters into the Rafay platform to implement application deployment automation, cluster and application governance, zero-trust control and access, and more.

 

We've already built a platform in-house. Can Rafay really benefit our business?

Yes! Rafay adds to any platform critical enterprise-grade capabilities such as cluster and application blueprints, drift detection, centralized RBAC and auditability of all actions, just to name a few, across both Kubernetes clusters and their applications. Adding Rafay is a simple exercise, and our solutions team will be more than happy to show you how to reduce the ongoing development and maintenance burden associated with building an in-house platform.

 

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Hybrid Cloud Meets Kubernetes

Learn how to Streamline Kubernetes Ops in Hybrid Clouds with AWS & Rafay

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"Easily operate and rapidly deploy applications anywhere across multi-cloud and edge environments."

Aamir Hussain

SVP Chief Product Officer, Verizon Business

"Rafay’s unified view for Kubernetes Operations & deep DevOps expertise has allowed us to significantly increase development velocity."

Alec Rooney

CTO

"The big draw was that you could centralize the lifecycle management & operations."

Beth Cohen

Cloud Technology Strategist, Verizon Business