The Rafay Platform

The product that I'm working on requires testing on different Kubernetes clusters, and the major ones we have are AWS, GCP, AKS, DigitalOcean, and some others as well. Earlier, we had to go on every cluster to get access, manage, and test for different clusters for our product, but as soon as we started using Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform, it provided us with a single dashboard with multi-cluster support for different platforms, making it really helpful because the hassle is gone now. We don't need to worry about different clusters as we have a single dashboard.

In our case, we manage multiple public clouds where we create our Kubernetes clusters such as GCP, AKS, and AWS. We found Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform to be a very useful platform for managing all those clusters because it provides us with a single dashboard through which we can manage all the different Kubernetes clusters that we have.

The best feature I will mention of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is the centralized multi-cluster management feature, which allows us not to worry about accessing different clusters, as it provides us with a single interface through which we can manage all the different users, namespaces, and cluster resources. This is what I and my team love working with because we don't have to worry about the different clusters that we are working with.

The central multi-cluster management feature saves us time because earlier we used to create a ticket for access to different cloud providers, which took time to get access, but with Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform, we have multi-cluster support that makes it really easy for our team and saves our time.

The GitOps flow that Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform has is something I'm looking into. I haven't extensively used that aspect, but there's discussion in my team about using their GitOps flow to onboard different new clusters, so I'm still researching that area and seeing how we can use it in our use case.

Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform has positively impacted our organization by increasing overall productivity as a team because we are a big team with many people working on Kubernetes clusters on different public clouds. Earlier it was a hassle for the DevOps team since they had to manage all the cluster access, but with Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform, it has really improved our productivity, allowing us to do many things ourselves since the admin provides a single access for specific areas.

From a normal point of view, most things are good with Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform, but I think there is a bit of a learning curve for new users unfamiliar with the platform, as it sometimes takes time to understand what exactly we are doing there and how everything works.

The onboarding part and documentation of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform can be improved because new persons in my team sometimes feel that the documentation requires some time to understand. While it's not messy, there is definitely a learning curve there.

I have been using Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform for the last one year.

Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is stable.

The scalability of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is good. Whatever we have used till now is really helpful for us, and we can use it as expected.

We haven't had any issues with the customer support of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform. Aside from the documentation aspect, we didn't require to connect with them.

We didn't use any specific solution before. We were just using the normal cluster setup across different clusters, and eventually, after learning about Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform, we switched to using it.

Before choosing Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform, I would say we did not evaluate other options. We had multiple clusters earlier, and once we learned of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform, we started using it and loved it, which is why we continue using it without looking into other options.

In our case, we have seen a return on investment, particularly in terms of time saved, as we resolved the ticketing issue and related problems.

I would advise individuals looking into using Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform that if they use multiple clusters in their organization or multiple public cloud providers and want to avoid the hassle of managing all those clusters, then they should definitely use Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform. I would rate this product an 8 out of 10.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

What do you like best about the product?

ease and speed of deployment and management

What do you dislike about the product?

None, we are statisfied and happy with the current capabilities

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

How it make it easier for our team with operational activities from the entire EKS cluster fleet perspective. (Currently 80+ clusters)
- RBAC model for cluster access to different user groups
- New AMI version rollout, version upgrades with vulnerability management
- Addon and blueprint lifecycle management
- Ability to manage the entire cluster through a specfile driven approach which enables us to use the Rafay Gitops capabilities for most of our operational tasks.

- From developers perspective console gives easy access to see the cluster resources, logs and execution of commands without knowing the kubectl commands. We have seen new development teams utilizing and adopting Rafay for their day to day work
- Support has been great from Rafay and they have been accommodating our requirements and support aspects has been addressed promptly which has allowed us to build a great relationship with Rafay team
n of glass, speed of deployment, and ease of cluster management

What do you like best about the product?

The Cntrol plane which is provided b rafay helps us in beter managing our k8's

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing so far been working with rafay o a while now

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us in better fleet managment

What do you like best about the product?

Rafay cluster resources management - one place to manage all the kuberentes clusters that are part of the organization
Rafay Blueprint concept
Kubernetes Upgrade process
RBAC management
Kubernetes cluster observability management
Rafay Kubernetes technical support

What do you dislike about the product?

As of today, there are some exceptions in using the rafay features which are very useful but cannot be used because they only work well with the resources created through rafay and don't support what isn't created through rafay. Once the features start supporting the importing of the existing resources, it becomes even more valuable than it already is.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kubernetes cluster resources management
Installation/management of the workloads that are common across the Kubernetes clusters through rafay blueprint
Kubernetes Upgrade process
RBAC management