Category: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 is shaping up to be the largest gathering of the cloud native open source community in 2018. Besides being in our hometown of Seattle, KubeCon is a great opportunity to learn about the latest technologies and techniques for building modern, cloud native applications. AWS will be at KubeCon with […]

Note: This post has been updated in January, 2020, to reflect new best practices in container security since we launched native least-privileges support at the pod level, and the instructions have been updated for the latest controller version. You can also learn about Using ALB Ingress Controller with Amazon EKS on Fargate. Kubernetes Ingress is […]

中文版 The Open Network User Group (ONUG) is an influential end-user organization that drives the creation and adoption of open standards in networking, cloud, and related technologies. Earlier in 2018, AWS joined ONUG, and Adrian Cockcroft spoke at the spring ONUG event in San Francisco. We will soon be sponsoring the fall ONUG event in […]

NOTE: In mid-2019 we re-launched and intensified our efforts, deprecating and archiving the old code base of the AWS Service Operator and changing to a community-driven approach. We’re currently in the design phase and invite you to comment on the design issues and become a contributor to the new project, see details at the new GitHub […]

The Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) uses the VPC CNI plugin for pod networking. The plugin runs as a DaemonSet and is responsible for assigning an IP address to pods. When managing an EKS cluster, it may be important to know how many IP addresses have been assigned and how many are available. […]

NOTE: Since this blog post was written, much about Kubeflow has changed. While we are leaving it up for historical reference, more accurate information about Kubeflow on AWS can be found here. The Kubeflow project is designed to simplify the deployment of machine learning projects like TensorFlow on Kubernetes. There are also plans to add […]

We’ve talked about FaaS (Functions as a Service) in Running FaaS on a Kubernetes Cluster on AWS Using Kubeless by Sebastien Goasguen. In this post, Alex Ellis, founder of the OpenFaaS project, walks you through how to use OpenFaaS on Amazon EKS. OpenFaaS is one of the most popular tools in the FaaS space, with […]

It’s a joyful experience for a developer when you can focus just on building an application, and rely on a tool to do the grunt work of pushing that application to a Kubernetes cluster. When the tool makes use of your existing knowledge of git, it only adds to the pleasure! In this post, Tirumarai […]

  The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and Kubernetes Metrics Server are now supported by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This makes it easy to scale your Kubernetes workloads managed by Amazon EKS in response to custom metrics. One of the benefits of using containers is the ability to quickly autoscale your application up or down. For […]

Note: Please see the latest blog Getting Started with Istio on Amazon EKS on this topic (Feb 22, 2024) Service Meshes enable service-to-service communication in a secure, reliable, and observable way. In this blog post, Matt Turner, CTO at Native Wave, explains the concept of a Service Mesh, shows how Istio can be installed as […]