# Kyle Hunter **Top 7 Reasons Why a Centralized Management Platform is Key to Overcoming Day 2 Kubernetes Challenges** Your organization has committed to modernize its software efforts, you’ve successfully deployed Kubernetes, and you have applications in production. Perhaps you’ve even established a platform team with the goal of implementing a shared services model and improving operational efficiency. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/top-7-reasons-why-a-centralized-management-platform-is-key-to-overcoming-day-2-kubernetes-challenges) **Unlocking Four Requirements for Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes** For enterprises of all shapes and sizes, Kubernetes has become a go-to-choice for shipping software and improving delivery time, visibility, and control of CI/CD workflows. With more organizations enjoying the benefits of Kubernetes, it is all the more crucial to integrate enterprise-grade Kubernetes across the business pipeline. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/unlocking-four-requirements-for-enterprise-grade-kubernetes) **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. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/shared-kubernetes-clusters-for-hybrid-and-multicloud) **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 to add other management services. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/5-practices-for-kubernetes-operations-with-amazon-eks) **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). [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/the-innate-risk-of-vmware-tanzu-with-broadcom-acquisition) **How to Bring Shadow Kubernetes IT into the Light** Shadow IT continues to be a challenge for IT leaders, but perhaps not in the sense that companies have seen in the past. Traditionally, shadow IT occurs within the application stack, which creates problems because the use of IT systems occurs without the approval, or even knowledge, of the corporate IT department. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/how-to-bring-shadow-kubernetes-it-into-the-light) **Securing Access to Kubernetes Environments with Zero Trust** Modern IT environments are becoming more dynamic by the day. Kubernetes, for example, is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for many IT organizations. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/securing-access-to-kubernetes-environments-with-zero-trust) **Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus** 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 consumption, and workload performance. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/kubernetes-monitoring-with-prometheus) **Choosing the Best Kubernetes Cluster and Application Deployment Strategies** 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 and over again. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/choosing-the-best-kubernetes-cluster-and-application-deployment-strategies) **Top Six Kubernetes Best Practices for Fleet Management** 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. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/top-six-kubernetes-best-practices-for-fleet-management) **Rafay Systems has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Container Management** Rafay Systems has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Container Management Rafay Systems has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Container Management. We believe that being included in this market guide report underscores that Rafay’s global customer base and Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) teams recognize value in the company’s unique approach for operating Kubernetes infrastructure and modern, containerized applications. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/rafay-systems-has-been-recognized-as-a-representative-vendor-in-the-2022-gartner-market-guide-for-container-management) **Multi-cluster Kubernetes Management and Access** As cloud and Kubernetes have become a standard, security remains one of the top inhibitors to modern application development. To reduce security risks, organizations can’t manage access control on a cluster-by-cluster basis. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/multi-cluster-kubernetes-management-and-access) **Run Containers and VMs Together with KubeVirt** Although many enterprises have deployed Kubernetes and containers, most also operate virtual machines. The two environments will likely co-exist for years, creating operational complexity, adding cost in terms of time and infrastructure. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/run-containers-and-vms-together-with-kubevirt) **Kubernetes Fleet Management: Four Key Pillars** With the success of Kubernetes (K8s), many teams have gone from operating just a handful of clusters to operating “fleets” of K8s clusters—both on-premises and in the cloud. As if the growing pains that come with scaling clusters rapidly aren’t bad enough, having a growing number of applications on different clouds, running different K8s distributions and many add-ons has resulted in significant management challenges. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/four-pillars-of-kubernetes-fleet-management) **Best Practices, Tools, and Approaches for Kubernetes Monitoring** In a Kubernetes environment, applications operate across multiple nodes within a cluster, and application services can be distributed across multiple clusters and multiple clouds, making tracking the health of an application and the infrastructure it depends on quite challenging. 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. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/best-practices-tools-and-approaches-for-kubernetes-monitoring) **3 Steps to Streamline Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Management** The footprint of Kubernetes is expanding rapidly in all industries. Many enterprises already operate multiple Kubernetes clusters in multiple regions to address the needs of global operations and reduce application latency for customers worldwide. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/3-steps-to-streamline-kubernetes-multi-cluster-management) **7 Common Kubernetes Backup & Recovery Mistakes** As enterprises move Kubernetes into production and increase the number of Kubernetes clusters and applications in use, they need to deliver the same “enterprise-level” services as for other production applications. Implementing Kubernetes backup is critical to protect your applications in the event of an accident, system failure, or deliberate attack. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/7-common-kubernetes-backup-recovery-mistakes) **GitOps Principles and Workflows Every Team Should Know** An Operating Model for Dynamic, Distributed Kubernetes Environments Kubernetes clusters have a lot of moving parts—and so does each application running on a cluster. With frequent application and environment updates, the state of every cluster can change rapidly. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/gitops-principles-and-workflows-every-team-should-know) **Securing Kubernetes: Applying Zero-Trust Principles to Your Kubernetes Environment** Controlling Kubernetes Access Becomes More Challenging by the Day The footprint of Kubernetes is expanding rapidly as IT teams take advantage of its power, efficiency, and flexibility to develop modern applications quickly and deliver them at scale. You may already have a large number of development and production Kubernetes clusters spread across on-premises data centers, multiple public cloud providers, and edge locations. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/securing-kubernetes-applying-zero-trust-principles-to-your-kubernetes-environment) **Upgrading Amazon EKS Clusters in 2023** Kubernetes is a rapidly evolving open-source project with periodic releases. And organizations embracing Kubernetes must adopt the practice of regular upgrades. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/upgrading-amazon-eks-clusters-in-2023) **What is Amazon EKS?** Kubernetes has proved an invaluable containerization tool since its inception. It increases application portability, enhances multi-cloud capability, and boosts developer productivity. [Read Now](https://pr@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/what-is-amazon-eks)