# Kubernetes Management Platform

The Kubernetes management solution within the Rafay Platform streamlines the automation of self-service provisioning for Kubernetes infrastructure, while assuring consistent standardization and governance.

## Kubernetes Management with the Rafay Platform

As enterprises modernize their applications, they are quickly realizing the significant increase in the cost and resources required to manage Kubernetes clusters. The Rafay Platform's SaaS-first approach enables companies to gain efficiencies from Kubernetes almost immediately, thus speeding digital transformation initiatives while keeping operating costs low.

## Built for Platform Teams

with benefits felt across the organization:

### **Autonomy to cloud users**

Move fast and innovate when dependable, self-service access to Kubernetes resources is available to anyone who needs it for development or testing.

### **Control to platform engineers**

Manage self-service workflows across a hybrid Kubernetes environment, ensuring that all compliance, security, and financial requirements are met.

### **Efficiency to operations**

Increase service availability by automating Kubernetes management and standardizing configurations across all teams from a single console.

## How the Rafay Platform's Kubernetes Management Works

The Rafay Platform's single SaaS-based controller manages hundreds of Kubernetes clusters with ease, while allowing software-defined isolation across any department, business group, or geography. It drops seamlessly into existing environments, plugs into your existing Internal Developer Platforms, CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code repositories, and automates operations immediately to make Kubernetes workflows faster and more efficient.

\* A self-hosted version is also available.

## All Your Kubernetes Management & Operational Needs In a Single Solution

With Benefits Felt Across the Organization

### For **Developer Autonomy**

- Use workflows with built-in automation and governance
- Provision rapidly with cluster or namespace as a service
- Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes infrastructure

### For **Control**

- Standardize configs and add-ons across clusters and clouds
- Optimize costs and track chargebacks across teams
- Build an internal portal for developers and cloud users

### For **Efficiency**

## Our Kubernetes Management Platform’s Key Features

### Multi-Cloud Cluster Lifecycle Management

### Multi-Tenancy with Team Isolation

### Add-on management with catalog & blueprints

### Centralized Cluster & Network Policy Management

### Integrated Monitoring & Troubleshooting

### Integrated Backup & Restore

## Use Case Example: Cluster Upgrade

Several times a year, when a cloud service provider updates their distribution of Kubernetes (for example, EKS, AKS, or GKE), IT organizations often scramble to identify the impacts to their operations as they plan their upgrade before their current version of K8s falls outside support. Here’s how that process works.

### Typical Process

1. Investigate what changed, and determine how your environment is impacted (retired APIs, prereq steps, etc.)
2. Build a plan to address concerns identified in the prior step.
3. Identify resources to upgrade.
4. Execute a dry run.
5. Test the upgrade.
6. Run post upgrade actions and checks.
7. Upgrade a few worker nodes.
8. Run post upgrade actions and checks.
9. Upgrade a few more nodes.
10. Run post upgrade actions and checks.

## The Rafay Platform: Environment Management

Automatically provision templated, fully featured, policy compliant environments, with just one click, for developers, data scientists, researchers, and more.

## Rafay Enterprise PaaS Datasheet

Rafay bridges the infrastructure complexity gap, so your business can focus on rapid innovation rather than cloud management.