One popular industry quip about Kubernetes, or K8s, is that it can be an impressively capable and scalable tool (when it’s set up), but getting it to work that way isn’t easy. One company is targeting that initial pain point for its customers.

“They’re all going to run into the exact same problem, which is they’re going to choose Kubernetes as the orchestration platform,” said Haseeb Budhani (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of Rafay Systems Inc. “And then they’re going to invest in building a platform essentially on top of Kubernetes so that their internal consumers and developers can consume it. That requires a lot of effort.”

Budhani spoke with theCUBE’s John Furrier during the recent AWS Summit San Francisco event, an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Rafay Systems has catered to a resource-intensive organizational process with its software-as-a-service solution. (* Disclosure below.)

The product in question

Rafay Systems has essentially taken the entire journey that a company’s containerization team would go through and distilled it into a product, according to Budhani. In addition to eliminating the bulk of the strain of standing up a K8s environment, the company’s offering also allows for compatibility across other major cloud providers.

“You can make it work with Amazon’s Kubernetes, Azure’s Kubernetes, Google’s Kubernetes, Upstream Kubernetes. But then you can move significantly faster so that the goal of modernization can be achieved now versus in two years more,” he said.

Kubernetes promised rapid, consistent modernization and growth to enterprises when it first launched. While most have reaped these benefits, some have been held back due to certain aspects of their setup (like infrastructure provisioning, access control, cost management and observability) not synergizing with the whole ecosystem. K8s is nuanced, and Rafay Systems’s SaaS product is tuned into those nuances, according to Budhani.

“Once you have the right automation in place that you can ideally consume as a service, then now the beauty is that the people who are using it on a day-to-day basis, they don’t need to be as knowledgeable at Kubernetes as today,” he stated.

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the AWS Summit San Francisco event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the AWS Summit San Francisco event. Neither Amazon Web Services Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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