Mohan Atreya - Rafay Product Documentation

Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks

Jupyter Notebook is open-source software created and maintained by the Jupyter community. A Jupyter notebook allows for the creation and sharing of documents with code and rich text elements. It works with over 40 programming languages including Python, R, and Ruby making it versatile and flexible for data scientists. In this introductory blog to Jupyter notebooks, we will look at "why it exists" and "what it looks like".

Choosing between Amazon ECS and EKS

We frequently get asked by users that are currently on AWS whether they should be using Amazon ECS or EKS to deploy and operate their containerized applications. Since this is such a common question and the answers are somewhat nuanced, we wanted to share our thoughts and recommendations for the benefit of all users.

Resize and Right Size Applications on Kubernetes

It is a well understood fact on Kubernetes that there is a significant amount of "wastage" of expensive cloud/infrastructure because of over provisioned applications. In this blog, we will look at how app developers and platform teams can save their organizations millions of dollars by right sizing their applications using a free, open-source tool called resize that we recently developed for our customers.

Conversation with Equinix at KubeCon 2023

At KubeCon 2023, I had the opportunity to sit down and have a discussion with Amy Tobey from Equinix. We thought it would be a lot of fun to record a completely unscripted conversation for folks that may not be that familiar with Rafay. This full conversation (approx. 20 minutes) is available now on Equinix's YouTube channel.

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Rafay at AWS re:Invent 2023

The Rafay team was at AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas from 27-30th Nov, 2023. In this blog, we summarize some of our announcements at AWS re:Invent 2023, describe some of the cutting edge demos we showcased to the attendees at the event and also highlight some of our observations.

Upstream Kubernetes on RHEL 9 using Rafay

Our recent release update adds support for a number of new features and enhancements. This blog is focused on support for Upstream Kubernetes on nodes based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v9.2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v9.1. Both new cluster provisioning and in-place upgrades of Kubernetes clusters are supported for lifecycle management.

KubeCon 2023: Observations and Takeaways

This year's KubeCon for North America was hosted at the McCormick Place in the windy city aka Chicago. It appears that there were 15,000 in-person attendees which explains why we were extremely busy all through the conference. In this blog, we summarize our observations and learnings from this year's KubeCon.

Amazon EKS v1.28 Cluster Provisioning using Rafay

In our recent release, we added support for new EKS cluster provisioning based on Kubernetes v1.28.

Customers have shared with us that they would like to provision new EKS clusters using new Kubernetes versions so that they do not have to plan/schedule for Kubernetes upgrades for these clusters right away. For the last few releases, we have introduced support for new cluster provisioning for the new Kubernetes version first and then follow up with support for zero touch in-place upgrades.

Intelligent Cluster Autoscaling with Karpenter

Congratulations to the maintainers of the Karpenter project!

The Karpenter project graduated to beta on 1st Nov, 2023. This is a major milestone for the Karpenter project.

We were very early adopters of Karpenter and have collaborated extensively with our customers and AWS to ensure that Karpenter works seamlessly for their EKS clusters when used with the Rafay Kubernetes Management platform. In this blog, we will describe the benefits of Karpenter and how our customers use Karpenter with Rafay.

Rafay at HashiConf 2023 in San Francisco

In October 2023, the Rafay team participated at HashiConf 2023 in San Francisco. We had several users ask us last week about our thoughts on the conference itself and things we presented and demonstrated. In this blog, we will briefly describe our learnings and observations from this major conference.