Rafay Systems announced the expansion of its work with Amazon Web Services
(AWS) with native support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon
EKS) Anywhere. With Rafay's Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP),
enterprises and service providers are able to leverage a single platform
to provide automation and governance of Kubernetes operations across
cloud (Amazon EKS) and datacenter (Amazon EKS Anywhere) environments. As
a result, platform teams benefit from the same consistent, repeatable
and easy-to-manage operational workflows for both Amazon EKS Anywhere
and Amazon EKS clusters.
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:
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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
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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
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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, AWS gives enterprises and service providers
leveraging hybrid infrastructure a set of tools to deploy Kubernetes
clusters in datacenters. These tools are consistent with the tools that
companies already use when deploying Amazon EKS clusters on AWS. Along
the same lines, Rafay customers can now benefit from the same
consistent, repeatable automation and governance workflows for Amazon
EKS Anywhere clusters as they have done for Amazon EKS clusters.
"Amazon EKS is the most trusted way to run Kubernetes on AWS and
enterprises are turning to Amazon EKS Anywhere for a similar experience
for Kubernetes clusters deployed in datacenters," said Haseeb Budhani,
CEO and co-founder of Rafay Systems. "Rafay's Kubernetes Operations
Platform provides a consistent operational experience for clusters
deployed on the cloud and data center environments, giving platform
teams a differentiated automation and governance framework for operating
Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters."
Rafay Provides Platform Teams With a Single, Unified Solution for
Standardization of Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Anywhere Operations
Rafay's KOP delivers a broad set of services that allow enterprise
platform teams to effectively and efficiently manage and operate both
Amazon EKS (on the cloud) and Amazon EKS Anywhere (in datacenters)
clusters. As a result, platform teams benefit from the same consistent,
standardized workflows for both Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Anywhere
clusters. As platform teams deploy and operate Amazon EKS Anywhere in
datacenters, they benefit from the following Rafay capabilities:
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Turnkey Amazon EKS Anywhere lifecycle management that can be
driven via a GitOps framework, a Terraform provider, Rafay's CLI or API
options, or Rafay's self-service, user interface-based wizard
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Cluster blueprinting and drift detection that guarantees
that Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters are provisioned with the
organization's approved set of addons. Rafay also notifies and
optionally blocks unapproved configuration changes done out-of-band
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Security and governance enforcement including role-based
separation of duties and full audit trail of all actions performed on
Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters, Kubernetes policy enforcement across the
cluster fleet, network policy and service mesh enforcement, etc.
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Integrated, managed storage to configure, deploy and operate block, file and object storage on Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters
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Soft and hard tenancy options to meet enterprise requirements for
an enterprise-wide shared services platform that spans the cloud and
datacenter environments
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Single, unified Kubernetes operations platform for platform teams to easily manage the entire lifecycle of both Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters
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