Introduction Autoscaling in Kubernetes, particularly in cloud-hosted Kubernetes like Amazon EKS, comes in two flavors: Kubernetes cluster autoscaler is the go-to solution
February 17, 2024
From Disk Partitions in EC2/Linux to Pods in EKS/Kubernetes
Introduction In the dynamic world of containerized workloads orchestrated by Kubernetes, tracing issues back to their source can sometimes be tricky. Traditional
January 20, 2024
Identifying the Source of Network Traffic Originating from Amazon EKS Clusters
Introduction If you run workloads in Amazon EKS, you might have noticed a peculiar behavior: when apps in EKS pods communicate outbound
August 10, 2023
Terraform Module for a Ready-to-Use Amazon EKS Cluster, with EKS Fargate & AWS IRSA, & Karpenter, with Spot Nodes & ABS
Introduction I recently spent a few days writing the “perfect” Terraform module for a complete, end-to-end, ready-to-use, EKS cluster, with a number
July 31, 2023
Amazon EKS & Karpenter: Configure Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection for Flexible Workloads
This post assumes you’re familiar with Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, & Karpenter. Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection Attribute-based instance type selection (ABS) lets you
July 30, 2023
Offload Secret Management to AWS Secrets Manager from Amazon EKS
Introduction Secrets in Kubernetes, are Base 64 encoded. As such, its trivial for anyone with access to the secret objects, to decode
April 27, 2023
Migrating OpenShift Templates to Helm Charts for Amazon EKS: Design Guidelines & Lessons Learned
Introduction If you’ve been following our blog for a while, you know that we recently completed a large-scale migration of hundreds of
April 5, 2023
Migrate DeploymentConfigs & Routes from OpenShift Templates to Helm Charts
Introduction In an earlier blog post, we looked at how to live migrate running production customer workloads from being managed by OpenShift
July 27, 2022
Live Migrate Production Workloads from OpenShift Templates to Helm Charts
Introduction In an earlier post, we looked at how to convert OpenShift templates to helm charts. In this post, we’ll see how
July 7, 2022
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