In our recent release in July, we enhanced our zero trust kubectl service to address the needs to two completely different cohorts of customers. At a high level, users of the Rafay Platform fall into two ends of the access spectrum when it comes to answering the following question.
Should developers be allowed to view Kubernetes Secrets?. Should they be allowed to exec into running containers/pods for troubleshooting purposes?
In our recent release in July, we added support for in-place upgrades of existing EKS clusters to Kubernetes v1.26. Customers tell us that they wish to be extremely careful with in-place upgrades of their existing EKS clusters because there is no benefit in rushing this and impacting mission critical applications etc. Provisioning of new EKS v1.26 clusters using Rafay has been supported for a while now.
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Organizations that wish to perform sophisticated checks for API deprecation etc are strongly recommended to use Rafay's Fleet Operations for Amazon EKS.
In our July 2023 release, we added support automatic injection of project name as a cluster label. In Kubernetes, labels are key/value pairs that are attached to objects such as Pods, nodes etc.
Support for labels in Kubernetes ends at a node level. We extended the "label" construct to clusters over two years back as cluster labels. Cluster labels are critical for multi cluster workflows and have been the backbone of several unique and differentiated features in the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform.
In this release, we have automated the injection of the "name of the project" as a cluster label to all clusters in the project. Read on to understand some of the use cases that are enabled by this feature.
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In a separate blog, we will describe how cluster labels powers various multi cluster workflows and operations.
Many of our customers are platform teams that are focused on providing their end users (application developers) a great developer experience especially with ease of use with deploying and managing their applications on remote clusters. In our July 2023 release, we have enhanced the existing developer experience further by providing developers with a facility to quickly verify details about the workload under management.
Important
This enhancement was requested by multiple enterprise customers.
Our recent release update in July to our Preview environment adds support for a number of new features and enhancements. This blog is focused on Cross Account Role ARN Support for Amazon EKS.
In July 2023, Rafay introduced a new feature to its Kubernetes Operations Platform: Cross Account Role ARN support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This feature is designed to cater organizations that operate multiple AWS accounts, providing a seamless and efficient way to manage EKS clusters across these accounts. In this blog post, we'll delve into the significance of this enhancement, explore its use cases, and understand how it simplifies EKS cluster management across multiple AWS accounts.
