# Rafay Kubernetes Management Services

- **MCP Server**  
  Connect any MCP-compatible AI assistant to the Rafay platform. Query clusters, pods, namespaces, workloads, and more using plain English with real-time responses.

- **Cluster Blueprints**  
  Centralized configuration with software add-ons and governance policies. Enforce continuous reconciliation with drift detection policies.

- **Backup and Restore**  
  Securely backup your Kubernetes resources and volumes to protect against infrastructure loss, data corruption, and/or service outages.

- **Catalog - System and Custom**  
  Create and curate custom app catalogs to meet the needs of various teams within the organization.

- **Monitoring & Visibility**  
  Automatically aggregate and visualize critical metrics from clusters operating in different regions, cloud providers, datacenters and edge locations.

- **Cost Management**  
  Consolidated fine-grained visibility and reporting of all your Kubernetes clusters. Automate showback and chargeback workflows.

- **Network Policy Manager**  
  Comply with security and compliance requirements for isolation and network access esp. in shared clusters. Prevent lateral movement and reduce attack surface.

- **Policy Management**  
  Centrally enforce OPA Gatekeeper policies. Aggregate and view policy metrics, violations and audits in a central dashboard.

- **Secrets Management**  
  Secure application secrets and automate lifecycle management and delivery via turnkey integrations with HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Sealed Secrets.

- **Workloads and GitOps**  
  Develop and operate multi-stage pipelines for both infrastructure orchestration and application deployments through pull requests in configured Git repositories.

- **Zero-Trust Kube API/Kubectl**  
  Controlled, audited, secure access for developers, SREs and automation systems to your clusters, with just-in-time service account creation.