# K8s Stay updated with our expert articles and insights on cloud-native and AI infrastructure management and orchestration topics. No items found. **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://mailto:Info@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/best-practice-for-upgrading-amazon-eks-clusters) **What’s New in Kubernetes v1.24?** Kubernetes v1. 24 is almost here. [Read Now](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/what-is-new-in-kubernetes-v1-24) **Top 5 Takeaways from DZone’s 2021 Kubernetes and the Enterprise Report** It's hard to believe that Kubernetes (K8s) is not yet even a ten year-old system, as it has fundamentally changed the way thousands of organizations automate their deployment, scaling, and development operations. Recently, DZone -- one of the top media outlets for IT pros and developers -- released their annual Kubernetes and the Enterprise report. [Read Now](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/top-5-takeaways-from-dzones-2021-kubernetes-and-the-enterprise-report) **Intel Partners with Rafay to Help ISVs Deploy Cloud-First Client Infrastructure** Today, Intel, along with several partners including Rafay, announced its Cloud-First Client (CFC) initiative at the Intel Innovation event. We are incredibly excited to be working with Intel, ISVs and enterprises to help enable this ground-breaking strategy and capability. [Read Now](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/intel-partners-with-rafay-to-help-isvs-deploy-cloud-first-client-infrastructure) **Providing Reliable Monitoring of Kubernetes Clusters with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Rafay** Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) is a new managed service by Amazon launching in general availability and providing an easy, scalable equivalent to the CNCF open-source Prometheus project. With AMP, enterprises get all the container monitoring benefits of open-source Prometheus without the hardware, storage, or software reliability and maintenance issues. [Read Now](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/providing-reliable-monitoring-of-kubernetes-clusters-with-amazon-managed-service-for-prometheus-and-rafay) **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://mailto:Info@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/what-is-amazon-eks) **etcd & Kubernetes: What You Should Know** Kubernetes is architected as a set of microservices that manage the lifecycle of containers and coordinate application management tasks such as configuration, deployment, service discovery, load balancing, scheduling, scaling, and monitoring across a fleet of clusters. The microservices-based architecture of the Kubernetes control plane offers the flexibility and resiliency to scale up and down according to the demands of the workloads. [Read Now](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/etcd-kubernetes-what-you-should-know) **Rafay Enhances Kubernetes Operations Platform with Enterprise-Grade Security, Standardization and Automation Capabilities** Over the past several years we’ve experienced a tremendous amount of change in the Kubernetes management and container orchestration market. Years ago, Kubernetes was used to support a relatively small number of clusters in lab environments, handling mostly corner use cases, and seen as a simple cluster management tool that was used by DevOps and IT Ops. [Read Now](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/rafay-enhances-kubernetes-management-cloud-with-enterprise-grade-security-standardization-and-automation-capabilities) **Top Kubernetes Takeaways From the 2020 AWS Container Security Survey** Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently published the 2020 AWS Container Security Survey results. This survey is a follow-up to the 2019 AWS Container Security Survey. [Read Now](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/top-kubernetes-takeaways-from-the-2020-aws-container-security-survey) **What Is a Helm Chart? The Complete Guide** The declarative model of Kubernetes uses Kubernetes Objects stored in configuration files which are essentially a set of YAML files. For every version and instance of a Kubernetes application that DevOps personnel deploy and run in their environments, a set of YAML files need to be created and managed. [Read Now](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-helm-charts) **Helm Chart Hooks Tutorial** Helm chart hooks are a useful tool in your Kubernetes deployments and are used to perform certain actions at specific points in a release cycle. Helm supports a variety of hooks and this blog serves as a tutorial to help you quickly learn how and when you can use them to make your kubernetes management process as efficient and repeatable as possible. [Read Now](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/helm-chart-hooks-tutorial) **Using Kubernetes (and not VMs) for Edge Computing and Machine Learning** There is near-universal agreement in IT circles that containers and Kubernetes are de facto technologies used for managing modern applications both for on-premises and cloud deployments. But what about emerging use cases such as edge computing and machine learning? [Read Now](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/using-kubernetes-and-not-vms-for-edge-computing-and-machine-learning)