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

June 30, 2022

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 for cluster lifecycle support. EKS Anywhere is ideal for AWS customers looking for a consistent experience for their containerized applications in the cloud and on premises. Instead of enterprises needing to build and manage their own DIY tooling to deploy Kubernetes on premises, EKS Anywhere delivers automation tooling that enterprises can leverage to deploy the same Kubernetes distribution (EKS-D) that underpins Amazon EKS clusters in public cloud regions.

A fast-growing number of AWS customers leverage Rafay’s Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP) to meet enterprise-grade automation, security, visibility and governance requirements imposed by platform teams on EKS deployments in public cloud regions. Customers planning to leverage EKS Anywhere for on-premises, bare metal environments can now operate both public cloud and on-premises based clusters easily with Rafay. The Rafay platform delivers a broad set of operational services designed to help enterprise platform teams effectively and efficiently manage the lifecycle of Amazon EKS clusters (both on premises and in public cloud regions) as well as the modern applications being deployed by application teams on said clusters.

Core Services of the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform

  1. Multi-Cluster Management Service
    Ops and platform teams can use this to automate the lifecycle and ongoing operations of Amazon EKS and EKS Anywhere clusters.

  2. Zero-Trust Access Service
    Rafay’s Zero-Trust Access Service allows organizations to enforce controlled, audited SSO-based access for developers, SREs and automation systems to Amazon EKS and EKS Anywhere clusters across both public cloud and on-premises environments.

  3. Backup & Restore Service
    Rafay’s integrated Backup & Restore Service enables organizations to implement backups of both the cluster control plane and volumes for both Amazon EKS and EKS Anywhere clusters.

  4. Visibility & Monitoring Service
    Rafay’s Visibility & Monitoring Service enables development, operations and security/governance teams to visualize and monitor modern apps and underlying Kubernetes infrastructure through dedicated dashboards.

  5. Policy Management Service
    Rafay’s Kubernetes Policy Management Service enables organizations to consistently deploy and enforce OPA Gatekeeper based policies across the entire fleet of Amazon EKS and EKS Anywhere clusters.

  6. GitOps Service
    Rafay’s GitOps Service enables application teams to use Git as the source of truth for both their applications as well as Amazon EKS and EKS Anywhere cluster configuration.

Ready to find out why so many organizations have partnered with Rafay and AWS to streamline Amazon EKS and EKS Anywhere operations? Watch a video of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform managing an EKS Anywhere Bare Metal cluster in a data center. Sign up for a free trial today OR request a demo.

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Amazon EKS
kops
Kubernetes Operations for Amazon EKS
multi-cluster management
Zero-Trust Kubernetes