Kubernetes

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What’s New in Kubernetes v1.24?
Kubernetes v1. 24 is almost here.
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Rafay Systems has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Container Management
Rafay Systems has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Container Management. * We believe that being included in this market guide report underscores that Rafay’s global customer base and Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) teams recognize value in the company’s unique approach for operating Kubernetes infrastructure and modern, containerized applications.
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What’s New in Kubernetes v1.23
Many people already have eyes on the upcoming Kubernetes v1. 24, which is scheduled for an official rollout on Tuesday, April 19, 2022.
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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.
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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.
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Rafay Systems Named a Global Leader in Cloud Computing for Kubernetes Operations with 2021 Stratus Award
We are thrilled to announce that Rafay has won the 2021 Stratus Award for Cloud Computing! Rafay’s Kubernetes Operations Platform was recognized as a leader in the Kubernetes category for the awards program.
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Operational Simplicity with Equinix Metal and Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform
Equinix Metal is a fully automated and interconnected bare metal service that enables organizations to automate hardware deployments across Equinix's global data center footprint and interconnection fabric. Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for modern applications being deployed and orchestrated across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It’s Official: Rafay’s Cloud-based Kubernetes Management Solution is a Hit With Enterprises (800% ARR growth YoY)
Years ago at another company where my co-founder, Hemanth Kavuluru, and I built the security industry’s first software-defined perimeter (SDP) platform, we spent just as much time wrestling with application and infrastructure orchestration as we did developing the solution we were actually selling. Back then, Kubernetes wasn’t yet a thing, but a number of container orchestration platforms were in use by early adopters.
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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.
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Kubernetes Secrets Management with HashiCorp Vault and Rafay
Thanks to Lan Nguyen and Mohan Atreya for their contributions to this blog. Kubernetes and containers enable applications to be instantaneously deployed across public clouds, data centers and the edge.
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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.
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Top 5 Trends for DevOps & Kubernetes in 2021: Welcome the KubeMaster
2020 has been a challenging year for many companies due to the global pandemic, which has had a varying impact on businesses. The software technology industry, for the most part, has been able to react faster to the changing landscape, with many verticals witnessing incredible levels of innovation.
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Kubernetes Cluster Backup & Restore with Velero and Rafay
Kubernetes cluster backup and restore is one of the top priorities for DevOps teams and KubeMasters running containerized applications in production. Without this critical capability, organizations run the risk of a disruption of service and unplanned downtime.
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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?
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What is Amazon EKS Distro (EKS D)?
At re:Invent this week, Amazon announced Amazon EKS Distro (AKA EKS-D). But what is EKS-D all about and where or when should you use it?
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How to Provision and Manage Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) Using Rafay
Today Amazon announced Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) , a Kubernetes distribution based on and used by Amazon EKS. EKS-D enables organizations to create reliable and secure Kubernetes clusters using the same versions of Kubernetes and its dependencies deployed by Amazon EKS.
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Verizon Partners with Rafay Systems to Power Cutting-“Edge” Application Kubernetes Platform
Today we are extremely excited to publicly talk about the work we’ve been doing with Verizon over the last year: Verizon announced a new managed offering called Application Edge, which is powered by Rafay Systems’ Kubernetes Management Cloud for MSPs product. The Application Edge platform allows enterprises to deploy business applications across the edge and multi-cloud environments.
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Rafay Systems Achieves Advanced Technology Partner Status in the AWS Partner Network
Today I am excited to announce that Rafay Systems has achieved Advanced Technology Partner status in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). The Advanced tier is the highest designation APN Technology Partners can achieve and includes companies that have met specific benchmarks for successful customer engagements and technical certification.
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Rafay Product Bytes: Zero-Trust Security for Kubectl, Deeper Amazon EKS Integration, Enhanced Fleet Management and More!
Welcome to our new, ongoing blog series called Product Bytes that highlights recent product enhancements we’ve made to our Kubernetes Management Cloud (for enterprises) and Kubernetes Management Cloud for MSPs (for service providers) products so you can stay up to date on what’s new. In this, our first installment, we’ll introduce a number of key improvements, but stay tuned because we’ll follow up with detailed blog posts on the features worth taking a deeper dive.
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Provision and Manage Amazon EKS on AWS Outposts with Rafay
AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS capabilities to a customer's facility providing a truly consistent hybrid experience. AWS services run locally on AWS Outposts and can be accessed using familiar AWS APIs and tooling making it ideal for workloads that require low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, or local data storage.
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