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Considerations for In-Place Upgrades to Amazon EKS v1.23

Earlier this year, AWS added support for Kubernetes v1. 23 for their Amazon EKS offering.

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Rafay Terraform Provider

Customers can interface with the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform via multiple approaches: Web Console/UI RCTL CLI (with declarative specs) Rafay Terraform Provider Open API Many of our customers that are standardized on the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pattern are heavy users of HashiCorp's Terraform. They use Rafay's Terraform Provider for their automation requirements.

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Integrated Cost Visibility & Governance for Kubernetes

With Rafay, you can enable visibility into costs associated with your resources in your fleet of Kubernetes clusters in just a single step. categories: Product Blog Training Cost Management Integrated Cost Visibility & Governance for Kubernetes Last week, we wrapped up "hands-on enablement" on our recently released "Integrated Cost Management" service for approximately 25 technologists.

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Provisioning clusters: Spinning up cost-effective clusters for training sessions

We have been running a number of internal and external enablement sessions with partners and customers over the last few weeks to provide "hands-on, labs-based training" on some recently introduced capabilities in the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform. Here's what we set up for those enablement sessions: Each attendee was provided with their own Kubernetes cluster We spun up ~25 "ephemeral" Kubernetes clusters on Digital Ocean (for life of the session) We needed the clusters to be provisioned in just a few minutes for the training exercise Each attendee had their own dedicated "Project" in the Rafay Org A question that we frequently got asked after those enablement sessions was " I would love to run similar sessions with my extended team, how much did it cost to run those clusters?

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How to Deploy Backstage in Kubernetes With Enterprise-Grade Governance and Automation

With Rafay, you can easily set up open-source Backstage as a means of enabling internal developer platforms and developer self-service on any type of Kubernetes cluster in the following categories: Product Blog Backstage Developer Self-Service Introduction To Backstage Recently, I published a ' recipe for Backstage ', an open-source project by Spotify that over the last year has witnessed tremendous adoption and growth by platform engineering teams of all types of enterprises. Some of the key features of Backstage include: An easy-to-use interface for developers Extensible plugin ecosystem (for ex.

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Cluster Blueprints and Drift Detection

Around three years back, we noticed many of our customers struggling with enterprise-wide standardization of their Kubernetes clusters. Every cluster in their Organization was a snowflake and they were looking for a way to enforce that every cluster had a "baseline set of add-ons".

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Learn Basics of Kubernetes: For Everyone

Are you an App Developer struggling to learn the basics of Kubernetes because you have no time and no access to resources that help you with this in a step-by-step manner? Background Application teams are typically extremely busy with their sprints and do not have the time or bandwidth to learn yet another thing such as Kubernetes.

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Amazon EKS and EKS Anywhere - All You Need To Know

Kubernetes as we all know is a complex yet effective system with a lot of moving parts. Pods, services, replica sets, and namespaces are just a few of them.

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Rafay Joins Amazon EC2 Spot Ready Program to Provide Cost-Saving Solutions for AWS Customers

Rafay is pleased to announce that we have been named a Pilot Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances. This designation recognizes that the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP), which simplifies the lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters and modern applications, has demonstrated successful support for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.

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How To Optimize Your K8s Cloud Spend with Rafay’s New Kubernetes Cost Optimization & Management Service

Managing Kubernetes costs efficiently is essential while scaling up in the cloud and Kubernetes world. In a previous blog , we discussed a major gap where more than 68% of organizations either do not monitor Kubernetes costs or simply rely on monthly estimates.

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Rafay Extends Support for Amazon EKS Anywhere with Turnkey Automation and Governance Capabilities

While the growth in cloud computing over the past decade is undeniable, many enterprises expect to continue running some applications in datacenters or colocation environments due to legal, security or regulatory reasons. Examples of such scenarios are listed below: Highly regulated enterprises in financial services and healthcare sectors, where some proprietary applications and related data are not permitted to be deployed on cloud environments Telecommunications companies that have standardized on Kubernetes for modern application orchestration and are deploying applications and Kubernetes on clouds as well as across their cellular network Remote locations where internet access is unreliable and may be impacted for extended periods of time leading application owners to deploy applications at the edge instead of on the cloud With Amazon EKS Anywhere, Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives enterprises and service providers leveraging hybrid infrastructure a set of tools to deploy Kubernetes clusters in datacenters.

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Paralus Applies to Become a CNCF Sandbox Project

For organizations managing user access to numerous Kubernetes clusters at once, maintaining security while ensuring that users can access only the resources they need is a complex balancing act. Oftentimes, teams manage access to each cluster separately, sometimes using jump hosts or VPNs, and with makeshift tooling to audit the actions performed by each user.

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Streamline Network Security with Centralized and Automated Network Policy Management

In a previous blog post, Securing Your Kubernetes Environments via Network Policies , we alluded to the value that network policies bring to Kubernetes environments in terms of isolation and reducing the lateral attack surface area, while also articulating some of the challenges around operationalizing network policies. To summarize, these challenges include the following: Integration and standardization of network policies : The operational burden in defining and enforcing network policies across a heterogeneous fleet of clusters r can be a significant exercise.

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Top 7 Reasons Why a Centralized Management Platform is Key to Overcoming Day 2 Kubernetes Challenges

Your organization has committed to modernize its software efforts, you’ve successfully deployed Kubernetes, and you have applications in production. Perhaps you’ve even established a platform team with the goal of implementing a shared services model and improving operational efficiency.

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Goodbye PodSecurityPolicy, Hello OPA Gatekeeper

The recently released version of Kubernetes v1. 25 removed the ‘PodSecurityPolicy (PSP)’ capability.

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IaC vs GitOps: What's the Difference?

A platform team can face significant challenges when it comes to operating a dynamic Kubernetes environment with multiple clusters spanning development, testing, and production. Frequent code deployments: In modern application environments, code changes frequently—often multiple times per day.

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Webinar Follow-Up: Secure your Kubernetes Infrastructure with Zero Trust Principles

During this webinar, Ashish Kar, VP of Product Management at Aarali Networks, and Naveen Chakrapani, Director of Product Management at Rafay Systems, covered securing K8s environments with Zero Trust principles. You can access the recording of the webinar here .

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What Makes Kubernetes Cost Management Difficult?

Kubernetes as a platform allows teams to scale up applications at a rapid pace but this may come at a significant cost if done inefficiently. According to the 2021 CNCF survey , more than 68% of organizations reported an increase in Kubernetes spend over the past year.

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Unlocking Four Requirements for Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes

For enterprises of all shapes and sizes, Kubernetes has become a go-to-choice for shipping software and improving delivery time, visibility, and control of CI/CD workflows. With more organizations enjoying the benefits of Kubernetes, it is all the more crucial to integrate enterprise-grade Kubernetes across the business pipeline.

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Securing Your Kubernetes Environments via Network Policies

Today, one of the most significant benefits of Kubernetes is the ability to quickly deploy and connect applications, whether across namespaces in a cluster or across different cloud environments. By default, a pod/application running in a Kubernetes cluster has the freedom to communicate with anything inside and outside the cluster with no security rules applied.

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Kubernetes Security: Top 5 Best Practices for Securing Kubernetes Clusters

As more and more of your business-critical applications run in Kubernetes, securing Kubernetes becomes increasingly critical. The ability to operate and secure clusters in a standardized fashion is essential in a rapidly growing Kubernetes environment.

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Unified Management of Multi-OS Kubernetes Clusters

One of the most common enterprise scenarios that engineers deal with today is managing multi-OS platforms or applications. This requires teams to run separate environments for each workload type based on the operating system (OS) and system architectures leading to additional costs and complexities.

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Powering Developer Self-Service for Application teams using Workspaces

In a previous blog post , we described how platform teams can leverage Rafay’s Cluster Templates capability to enable a self-service model where application teams can provision clusters on demand. And now, platform teams can configure the necessary restrictions on resource values as part of Cluster Templates to achieve compliance and standardization.

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Enterprise Best Practices for Solving the Top Kubernetes Security Risks

Countless developers have adopted Kubernetes to help build cloud-native applications. However, many companies still struggle with managing this new environment.

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Integrated Cost Visibility & Governance for Kubernetes

Provisioning clusters: Spinning up cost-effective clusters for training sessions

How to Deploy Backstage in Kubernetes With Enterprise-Grade Governance and Automation

Cluster Blueprints and Drift Detection

Learn Basics of Kubernetes: For Everyone

Amazon EKS and EKS Anywhere - All You Need To Know

Rafay Joins Amazon EC2 Spot Ready Program to Provide Cost-Saving Solutions for AWS Customers

How To Optimize Your K8s Cloud Spend with Rafay’s New Kubernetes Cost Optimization & Management Service

Rafay Extends Support for Amazon EKS Anywhere with Turnkey Automation and Governance Capabilities

Paralus Applies to Become a CNCF Sandbox Project

Streamline Network Security with Centralized and Automated Network Policy Management

Top 7 Reasons Why a Centralized Management Platform is Key to Overcoming Day 2 Kubernetes Challenges

Goodbye PodSecurityPolicy, Hello OPA Gatekeeper

IaC vs GitOps: What's the Difference?

Webinar Follow-Up: Secure your Kubernetes Infrastructure with Zero Trust Principles

What Makes Kubernetes Cost Management Difficult?

Unlocking Four Requirements for Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes

Securing Your Kubernetes Environments via Network Policies

Kubernetes Security: Top 5 Best Practices for Securing Kubernetes Clusters

Unified Management of Multi-OS Kubernetes Clusters

Powering Developer Self-Service for Application teams using Workspaces

Enterprise Best Practices for Solving the Top Kubernetes Security Risks

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