Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform streamlines Kubernetes management with features designed for scalability and security, making Kubernetes deployments efficient for enterprises.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform | 0.8% |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform | 14.6% |
| Amazon EKS | 11.5% |
| Other | 73.1% |
Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform offers a comprehensive Kubernetes management experience, facilitating the operation and automation of workloads across hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments. Its capabilities allow seamless integration with integrated developer tools, which enhances automation and reliability across deployments, ensuring efficient management of infrastructure.
What are Rafay's most valuable features?Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is increasingly adopted in industries such as finance, healthcare, and automotive due to its capability to handle complex workloads and meet stringent compliance requirements, providing a robust foundation for modernizing applications and enabling digital transformation.
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Associate System Engineer at Dhanyaayai enterprise private limited | 4.0 | I find Rafay excellent for multi-cluster, multi-cloud management with strong RBAC and scalability, offering good ROI. However, licensing costs and third-party integration could improve, leading to my 8/10 rating. |
| Software Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees | 4.0 | I use Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across various public clouds from a single dashboard. It greatly improves my team's productivity by simplifying multi-cluster operations, despite a slight learning curve for new users. |
I use Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform for multi-cluster management, centralized cluster monitoring, and user access management in my day-to-day work.
As I manage multiple clusters working on different platforms such as OCP and EKP, I manage them from a single platform using Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform.
My main use case focuses on application deployment automation.
The best features of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform are the centralized multi-cluster management, built-in RBAC policy for managing role-based access control, cluster lifecycle management, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud support, and centralized monitoring.
Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform's RBAC policy helps my team by giving each user specific roles for managing the cluster, which makes RBAC integration easier and ensures that users do not have access to all clusters, thereby increasing security.
The multi-cloud support stands out for me as it supports different cloud environments on a single platform, including Azure, AWS, and GCP clusters, which helps me manage clusters working on different platforms.
Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform should have lower licensing costs for smaller organizations like mine, and it could integrate third-party tools as well.
I chose a rating of eight out of ten because of the improvements required regarding licensing costs and the integration of third-party tools.
I have been using Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform for about a year.
Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is stable.
Scalability is one of the great features of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform as it supports large environments, multi-cloud deployment, and thousands of workloads for different users.
Customer support for Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is responsive, and the support team demonstrates strong Kubernetes expertise and helps with deployment, operational, and troubleshooting issues.
Previously, we were using native Kubernetes management, bare metal clusters, and OpenShift, but due to higher costs, we switched to Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform.
Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform simplifies Kubernetes operations, improves security with RBAC, and reduces operational downtime.
Time was saved because from the single platform, I can manage clusters working on different platforms such as hybrid cloud or multi-cloud platforms, making systems ready and reducing downtime. With that, cluster lifecycle management improved.
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I have seen a return on investment, with key benefits including fast deployment cycles, improvement in security and management, reduced downtime, and improved time spent on cluster management.
My experience with pricing shows that Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is an enterprise platform, so the licensing cost is somewhat higher than other Kubernetes tools. However, it has a small setup cost and centralized management capacity, which justifies the investment for the multi-cluster setup.
I would rate Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform eight out of ten.
I advise others who are looking into using Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform that if they want to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters running on different platforms such as cloud or on-premise environments, they can adopt Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform for long-term operational benefits.
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.
