Centralized Kubernetes Cluster Lifecycle Management for Private Data Centers

Automate, Secure, and Optimize Kubernetes Operations at Scale

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Challenges of Kubernetes Cluster Lifecycle Management in Private Data Centers

Complex Cluster Lifecycle Operations

Managing Kubernetes clusters on-premises requires manual provisioning, scaling, and upgrades, leading to operational inefficiencies. Without automated workflows, organizations struggle with configuration drift, downtime risks, and increased maintenance efforts.

Security, Compliance, and Governance Risks

Private data centers must meet stringent security and compliance requirements while ensuring operational consistency. Enforcing access controls, network policies, and audit logging across multiple clusters without centralized governance increases security vulnerabilities.

Scalability & Infrastructure Bottlenecks

Unlike cloud environments, private data centers have finite resources, making it challenging to scale clusters efficiently. Without intelligent resource management and workload optimization, organizations risk overprovisioning, underutilization, and degraded application performance.

Why Choose Rafay for Multi-Tenancy Infrastructure?

Automated Cluster Provisioning & Scaling

Deploy production-ready clusters with automated workflows for consistency and efficiency.

In-Place Upgrades & Patching

Automate Kubernetes upgrades, patches, and add-ons with zero downtime.

Centralized Security & Compliance Controls

Enforce RBAC, network policies, and compliance controls across all clusters.

Multi-Cluster & Hybrid Management

Manage clusters across private data centers and hybrid clouds from a single control plane.

Self-Service Access & GitOps Automation

Deploy production-ready clusters with automated workflows for consistency and efficiency.

Optimized Resource Utilization & Cost Control

Prevent overprovisioning, improve workload efficiency, and track resource consumption.

Built-In High Availability & Disaster Recovery

Ensure business continuity with automated failover, backups, and recovery mechanisms.

Why companies use Rafay’s managed Kubernetes service in private clouds

There are numerous hurdles to building a Kubernetes solution on-prem. Rafay customers use a CNCF-compliant fully-managed Kubernetes distro in their data centers

Before
After
Build a highly available and scalable Kubernetes solution
Rafay managed upstream K8s for bare metal and virtual (vSphere)
Maintain critical K8s components (CNI, CRI, Etcd, etc..)
Rafay manages critical K8s components
Integration with core Infrastructure providers (Storage, Network and LB)
-500 integrations available out of the box
K8s cluster upgrades, node OS patches & Cluster add-on updates
Automated fleet-wide workflows for in-place upgrades
K8s lifecycle operations automation (provision, scale, update, etc..)
Out-of-box TF, CLI, API, GitOps

Customer Results

45%
Increase in productivity with fleet-based automated workflow
100%
Compliance clusters
4x
Faster cluster and add-on upgrades and patches
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Free Yourself from Old Technology

Leverage turnkey Kubernetes lifecycle management for data centers and the edge, using our easy-to-use, fully CNCF-compliant Kubernetes distro.

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