Skip to content

Mohan Atreya

Infrastructure Templates for Generative AI on AWS

We constantly hear from our customers about wanting their developers to experiment with Generative AI. No organization wants to be left behind and they are all trying to find ways to empower their developers and application teams to be able to experiment with use cases powered especially by Generative AI.

According to recent Gartner research, >80% of enterprises will have used Generative AI APIs or Deployed Generative AI-Enabled Applications by 2026.

We have been listening to our customers and are happy to announce Rafay's Templates for AI & Generative AI. Platform teams can now provide their developers with a self service experience for Gen AI infrastructure enabling developers to experiment with new and innovative Generative AI use cases.

Gen AI Logo

Upstream Kubernetes on RHEL 9 using Rafay

Our recent release update adds support for a number of new features and enhancements. This blog is focused on support for Upstream Kubernetes on nodes based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v9.2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v9.1. Both new cluster provisioning and in-place upgrades of Kubernetes clusters are supported for lifecycle management.

RHEL 9.2

Announcing Rafay's Templates for AI and Generative AI

We constantly hear from our customers about wanting their developers to experiment with Generative AI. No organization wants to be left behind and they are all trying to find ways to empower their developers and application teams to be able to experiment with use cases powered especially by Generative AI.

According to recent Gartner research, >80% of enterprises will have used Generative AI APIs or Deployed Generative AI-Enabled Applications by 2026.

We have been listening to our customers and are happy to announce Rafay's Templates for AI & Generative AI. Platform teams can now provide their developers with a self service experience for infrastructure so that developers can experiment with new and innovative AI and Generative AI use cases.

Gen AI Logo

Amazon EKS v1.28 Cluster Provisioning using Rafay

In our recent release, we added support for new EKS cluster provisioning based on Kubernetes v1.28.

Kubernetes v1.28

Customers have shared with us that they would like to provision new EKS clusters using new Kubernetes versions so that they do not have to plan/schedule for Kubernetes upgrades for these clusters right away. For the last few releases, we have introduced support for new cluster provisioning for the new Kubernetes version first and then follow up with support for zero touch in-place upgrades.

Important

Please review our support matrix for additional details on supported Kubernetes version by provider and k8s distribution.

Intelligent Cluster Autoscaling with Karpenter

Congratulations to the maintainers of the Karpenter project!

The Karpenter project graduated to beta on 1st Nov, 2023. This is a major milestone for the Karpenter project.

We were very early adopters of Karpenter and have collaborated extensively with our customers and AWS to ensure that Karpenter works seamlessly for their EKS clusters when used with the Rafay Kubernetes Management platform. In this blog, we will describe the benefits of Karpenter and how our customers use Karpenter with Rafay.

AWS Karpenter

Rafay at DevOpsCon 2023 in New York City

In late Sep 2023, we had the opportunity to speak, present and participate at DevOpsCon 2023 in New York City. In this blog, we will briefly describe what we presented at the conference and our observations about the event itself.

DevOpsCon is a global conference focused on CI/CD, Kubernetes Ecosystem, Agile & Lean Business. If you live outside the United States, you may want to attend one of their conferences in other cities such as Munich, Singapore, London and Berlin.

This year's conference in New York was held at the Marriott near Brooklyn Bridge which is a fantastic location, literally right across from the Brooklyn Bridge and NYU Engineering.

Our goals at this conference were very simple.

  1. Educate the attendees about various approaches for secure access to Kubernetes clusters and their pros/cons.

  2. Attend other sessions, meet practitioners and learn about their challenges and how they are solving these.

View the full conference schedule.

In-place Upgrades to Amazon EKS v1.27 Clusters using Rafay

In our recent release, we added support for in-place upgrades of your EKS clusters provisioning based on Kubernetes v1.27.

Our customers have shared with us that they would like to provision new EKS clusters using new Kubernetes versions so that they do not have to plan/schedule for Kubernetes upgrades for these clusters right away. As a result, we generally introduce support for new cluster provisioning for the new Kubernetes version first and then follow up with support for zero touch in-place upgrades.

Note

Organizations that wish to perform sophisticated checks for API deprecation etc are strongly recommended to use Rafay's Fleet Operations for Amazon EKS.

Kubernetes v1.28 for Rafay MKS

Our recent release update adds support for a number of new features and enhancements. This blog is focused on support for Kubernetes v1.28 with Rafay MKS (i.e. upstream Kubernetes for bare metal and VM based environments).

Both new cluster provisioning and in-place upgrades of existing clusters are supported. As with most Kubernetes releases, this version also deprecates and removes a number of features. To ensure there is zero impact to our customers, we have made sure that every feature in the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform has been validated on this Kubernetes version.

Kubernetes v1.28 Release