THE RAFAY PLATFORM

Finally, Kubernetes Automation for Everyone, Everywhere

The Kubernetes management solution within the Rafay Platform streamlines the automation of self-service provisioning for Kubernetes infrastructure, while assuring consistent standardization and governance.

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Kubernetes Management with the Rafay Platform

                   As enterprises modernize their applications, they are quickly realizing the significant increase in the cost and resources required to manage Kubernetes clusters. The Rafay Platform's SaaS-first approach enables companies to gain efficiencies from Kubernetes almost immediately, thus speeding digital transformation initiatives while keeping operating costs low.                

Built for Platform Teams

with benefits felt across the organization:

Autonomy to cloud users

Move fast and innovate when dependable, self-service access to Kubernetes resources is available to anyone who needs it for development or testing.

Control to platform engineers

Manage self-service workflows across a hybrid Kubernetes environment, ensuring that all compliance, security, and financial requirements are met.

Efficiency to operations

Increase service availability by automating Kubernetes management and standardizing configurations across all teams from a single console.

How the Rafay Platform's Kubernetes Management Works

The Rafay Platform's single SaaS-based* controller manages hundreds of Kubernetes clusters with ease, while allowing software-defined isolation across any department, business group, or geography. It drops seamlessly into existing environments, plugs into your existing Internal Developer Platforms, CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code repositories, and automates operations immediately to make Kubernetes workflows faster and more efficient.

* A self-hosted version is also available.

All Your Kubernetes Management & Operational Needs In a Single Solution

With Benefits Felt Across the Organization

For Developer Autonomy

  • Use workflows with built-in automation and governance
  • Provision rapidly with cluster or namespace as a service
  • Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes infrastructure

For Control

  • Standardize configs and add-ons across clusters and clouds
  • Optimize costs and track chargebacks across teams
  • Build an internal portal for developers and cloud users

For Efficiency

  • Standardize configs and add-ons across clusters and clouds
  • Optimize costs and track chargebacks across teams
  • Build an internal portal for developers and cloud users

Our Kubernetes Management Platform’s Key Features

Multi-Cloud Cluster Lifecycle Management

Multi-Tenancy with Team Isolation

Add-on management with catalog & blueprints

Centralized Cluster & Network Policy Management

Integrated Monitoring & Troubleshooting

Integrated Backup & Restore

Use Case Example: Cluster Upgrade

               Several times a year, when a cloud service provider updates their distribution of Kubernetes (for example, EKS, AKS, or GKE), IT organizations often scramble to identify the impacts to their operations as they plan their upgrade before their current version of K8s falls outside support. Here’s how that process works.            

Typical Process
Process With Rafay
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Typical Process
Investigate what changed, and determine how your environment is impacted (retired APIs, prereq steps, etc.)
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Process with Rafay
Import Rafay’s fleet plan and configure it to run in your environment. Customize any prereq and post-upgrade checks.
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Typical Process
Build a plan to address concerns identified in the prior step.
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Process with Rafay
Automatically select resources to upgrade.
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Typical Process
Identify resources to upgrade.
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Process with Rafay
Execute a dry run.
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Typical Process
Test the upgrade.
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Process with Rafay
Solve any issues that are surfaced.
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Typical Process
Upgrade the control plane.
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Process with Rafay
Execute the plan. Monitor the dashboard in Rafay to track how upgrades are progressing.
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Typical Process
Run post upgrade actions and checks.
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Process with Rafay
Enjoy your weekend (or do something else).
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Typical Process
Upgrade a few worker nodes
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Typical Process
Run post upgrade actions and checks
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Typical Process
Upgrade a few more nodes
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Typical Process
Run post upgrade actions and checks
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Typical Process
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The Rafay Platform: Environment Management

Automatically provision templated, fully featured, policy compliant environments, with just one click, for developers, data scientists, researchers, and more.

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The Rafay Platform Datasheet

Infrastructure orchestration for cloud and accelerated computing as a service, with guardrails included.

"With Rafay, we have complete peace of mind that our K8s clusters & apps are operating efficiently and securely."

Mike Kail
CTO

Our focus on democratizing AI across India demands for us to move at lightning speed to deliver high-value data science experiences to developers. In working with NVIDIA and Rafay to deliver a PaaS for AI and GPU consumption, we are delivering the self-service experience developers and enterprises across India are looking for.

Sharad Sanghi
Founder and CEO, Neysa AI

“We are able to deliver new, innovative products and services to the global market faster and manage them cost-effectively with Rafay.”

Joe Vaughan
Chief Technology Officer

We are thrilled to have collaborated with NVIDIA and Rafay in evaluating, and defining requirements for, a Platform-as-a-Service layer for AI application consumption. As part of the Indosat group, Lintasarta is playing a crucial role in not only paving the way for us to become an AI-native TechCo, but is also playing a leadership role in the industry to help steer the AI revolution in the right direction.

Vikram Sinha
President, Director, and CEO of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchinson (parent company of Lintasarta)

“One single tool, one single process, one single knowledge base helps us achieve efficiency. Less chaos, less complexity.”

Rakesh Singh
Senior Director, Cloud & DevOps

Our work with Rafay in publishing the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) reference architecture gives enterprises, NVIDIA Cloud Partners (NCPs) and other GPU Cloud providers a path to delivering accelerated computing infrastructure, along with AI applications, in days. With the AI market moving so fast, time-to-market is key, and the Rafay Platform is a powerful enabler for NVIDIA customers looking to move fast.

Justin Boitano
VP, Enterprise AI at NVIDIA

"Rafay has streamlined the management and operations of 100+ Amazon EKS clusters while helping us enable developer self-service."

Sharmila Ramar
Global Head of Cloud , Devops & Data Management

"Choose packaged software distributions or cloud-managed services for production deployments that integrate different technology components, simplify life cycle management of that stack and provide multi-cloud management rather than a DIY approach."

Arun Chandrasekaran
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"Rafay’s thought leadership and white glove support has been fantastic."

Kumud Kalia
CIO

"The big draw was that you could centralize the lifecycle management & operations."

Beth Cohen
Cloud Technology Strategist, Verizon Business

“Rafay was up and running quickly, easy to use, and allowed us to deploy & manage standardized clusters anywhere."

Greg Saunders
Director of Cloud Engineering

"Easily operate and rapidly deploy applications anywhere across multi-cloud and edge environments."

Aamir Hussain
SVP Chief Product Officer, Verizon Business

"Rafay stood out from the crowd with their deep integration with Amazon EKS."

Jayant Thakre
VP Products

"Rafay’s unified view for Kubernetes Operations & deep DevOps expertise has allowed us to significantly increase development velocity."

Alec Rooney
CTO

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