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MoneyGram’s Journey from Command Line to Kubernetes Platform

At theCUBE’s coverage of Kubecon 2022, EU, MoneyGram’s Enterprise Architect Adnan Khan and Haseeb Budhani, CEO of Rafay, discussed MoneyGram’s journey to Kubernetes Management Platform and how Rafay has simplified and improved their Kubernetes operations. Adnan, what did your pre-Kubernetes landscape look like?

Mastering Amazon EKS Upgrades with Rafay’s Kubernetes Operations Platform

Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a popular managed Kubernetes service that simplifies containerized applications' deployment, scaling, and management. As with any technology, EKS requires periodic upgrades to ensure the latest features, security patches, and performance improvements are in place.

AI/ML Superpowers for Kubernetes Troubleshooting

In the last two blogs ( part 1 and part 2 ), we discussed the challenges customers face with running AI/ML on Kubernetes and innovative solutions to address these challenges. In this blog, we will flip this on its head and look at how AI/ML can make Kubernetes easier to use and operate.

Solutions for Key Kubernetes Challenges for AI/ML in the Enterprise - Part 2

This is part-2 of our blog series on challenges and solutions for AI/ML in the enterprise. This blog is based on our learnings over the last two years as we worked very closely with our customers that make extensive use of Kubernetes for AI/ML use cases.

EKS Anywhere Bare Metal Cluster Management Made Easy with Rafay

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a popular container orchestration system used by many businesses. One of the options available with EKS is EKS Anywhere for Bare Metal environments, which allows you to run Kubernetes on your own hardware.

Key Kubernetes Challenges for AI/ML in the Enterprise - Part 1

This blog is based on our learnings over the last two years as we worked very closely with our customers who use Kubernetes for AI/ML extensively. This is part-1 of a two-part series.

Announcing our April 2023 (v1.24) Release

A few weeks back in early April 2023, we upgraded our Preview environment to v1. 24 of the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform.

The Straight Stroop from KubeCon EU 2023, Amsterdam

The Rafay team had the opportunity to attend CNCF’s KubeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam in full force last week. As a sponsor, we spent time with 1000's of attendees helping them understand Rafay’s Kubernetes Operations Platform .

How Platform Teams can enable developers to use their preferred Kubernetes Tools

There are cases where developers may prefer to use tools on their laptops such as Lens Desktop to visualize resources and interact with Kubernetes clusters. The use of a desktop based app such as Lens can be a better user experience for developers over the Kubectl CLI.

Deepen Your Kubernetes Knowledge and Grow Your Career with Rafay Certification

Today I’m incredibly excited to announce our new Rafay Certification program for Rafay customers! The Rafay Certification program equips participants with best practices that gain efficiencies from Kubernetes almost immediately, thus speeding digital transformation initiatives while keeping Kubernetes operating costs low.

Introducing the Rafay Plugins For Backstage to Enable Developer Self-Service Through One-Click Kubernetes Cluster, Namespace, and Environment Provisioning

Today, I am pleased to announce the launch of the Rafay Plugins for Backstage, which will be generally available in the 2nd half of this year. For those who are unfamiliar with Backstage, it is an open source project by Spotify that enables platform engineering teams to build out internal developer portals (IDPs) as a means to enable developer self-service and significantly reduce cognitive load and burden that developers face today.

Announcing our New Preview Environment

We just rolled out "enhancements'' and "new functionality" from our upcoming v1. 24 release to our Preview environment.

Rafay’s new Environment Manager Enables Developer Self-Service For Modern App Deployments - From Code To Cloud

Today, I am pleased to pre-announce the launch of Rafay Environment Manager, which will be generally available in the 2nd half of this year. Environment Manager is a new, cutting-edge service that provides platform teams with the management, governance, and automation capabilities needed to enable developer self-service for full-stack environment provisioning.

Rafay Named Leader and Outperformer in 2023 GigaOm Radar Report for Managed Kubernetes

All of us at Team Rafay are extremely proud to be recognized as a “Leader” and “Outperformer” in GigaOm’s 2023 Radar Report for Managed Kubernetes . Rafay’s leading position in the Innovator and Platform Play hemispheres highlights our continued innovation and commitment to creating the most comprehensive, enterprise-grade platform to eliminate Kubernetes complexity.

10 Key Considerations When Implementing Virtual Kubernetes Clusters

In a Kubernetes context, multi-tenancy refers to sharing one large cluster among multiple teams, applications, or users primarily in lower environments such as development and testing—mainly to reduce cost and operational overhead around managing many clusters. Multi-tenancy is becoming an essential requirement for platform teams deploying Kubernetes infrastructure.

Architecture and Design Considerations for Platform Engineering Teams

Platform engineering is not a new concept and has existed for a long time in companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and many other large companies. For any large-scale product-engineering team, a platform is a set of standard services, frameworks and patterns that are originally developed by one or more teams for their use that can be leveraged by the other teams of the organization.

Considerations for Windows Containers on Kubernetes

With the increasing adoption of Kubernetes in organizations, we are seeing interest from a number of customers that would like to deploy and operate their "legacy Windows applications" on Kubernetes as well.  In this blog, we have attempted to capture our learnings from working with customers that use the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform to deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters with Windows-based containerized applications.

Considerations for In-Place Upgrades to Amazon EKS v1.24

The Kubernetes Crystal Ball: Predictions and Expectations for 2023

2022 was a huge year for Kubernetes. We witnessed significant growth in adoption of the open-source container orchestration system within enterprises given its ability to rapidly scale and manage modern applications.

Kubernetes Cluster Insights for Platform Teams

Many customers of the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform are Platform Teams. In many cases, the first priority for these platform teams is to take over and standardize existing Kubernetes clusters in active use by application teams.

Takeover Lifecycle Management of Amazon EKS Clusters

We invest a lot of time training our employees, partners and customers on capabilities that are seeing a lot of inbound interest from our customers. Earlier this week, we provided "hands-on, labs-based training" for approximately 30 technologists on a very interesting "capability" in the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform.

Multi-tenancy: Best practices for shared Kubernetes clusters

Some of the key questions that platform teams have to think about very early on in their K8s journey are: How many clusters should I have? What is the right number for my organization?

Seamless Landing Zone For Our Docs

These past few months, we've invested a lot of time as a team working to create a more seamless experience for our customer-facing product documentation . While we built a lot of content covering key functionality of the platform, one of the key questions that would arise from our readers was how do I know where to start?

New User Experience for Product Documentation

We invest a lot of time in creating and maintaining our customer-facing product documentation . Over the last few years, as we added significant width to our platform, we found ourselves in a situation where the way the content was presented especially for new users was overwhelming to them.