Containers
Category: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Troubleshooting Amazon EKS API servers with Prometheus
It’s every on-call’s nightmare—awakened by a text at 3 a.m. from your alert system that says there’s a problem with the cluster. You need to quickly determine if the issue is with the Amazon EKS managed control plane or the new custom application you just rolled out last week. Even though you installed the default […]
Harden Amazon EKS in minutes with Styra DAS Free and OPA
In the Amazon EKS Best Practices Guide, AWS recommends Open Policy Agent (OPA) as a policy-as-code (PaC) solution for Kubernetes pod security. The long list of pros provided for PaC focuses mainly on the flexibility and comprehensive control that PaC provides when compared with built-in pod security admission. While PaC brings powerful flexibility, it can […]
A quick path to Amazon EKS single sign-on using AWS SSO
With the rapid growth of software as a service (SaaS) and cloud adoption, identity is the new security perimeter. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Kubernetes role-based access control (RBAC) provide the tools to build a strong least-privilege security posture. Single sign-on (SSO) uses federation with a central identity provider (IdP) to improve security by allowing […]
Amazon EKS and Spot Instances in action at Delivery Hero
This post was coauthored by Christos Skevis, Senior Engineering Manager, Delivery Hero; Giovanny Salazar, Senior Systems Engineer, Delivery Hero; Miguel Mingorance, Senior Systems Engineer at Delivery Hero at the time the blog post was written; Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Flexible Compute, AWS; and Sascha Möllering, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, Containers, AWS. This post […]
Using AWS Proton as a provisioning mechanism for Amazon EKS clusters
AWS customers have a number of options they can use to deploy Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. They can use the EKS console workflows, the eksctl CLI, the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), or several other options. There is often a single Ops-savvy user (or team) picking one of these options to […]
Mobileye’s journey towards scaling Amazon EKS to thousands of nodes
This post was coauthored by David Peer, DevOps Specialist, AI Engineering, Mobileye and Tsahi Duek, Specialist Solutions Architect for AWS Container services. This blog post reviews how Mobileye’s AI Engineering Group seamlessly runs their workflows on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), supporting around 250 workflows daily. What is Mobileye? Mobileye develops self-driving technology and […]
Customizing scheduling on Amazon EKS
The interest in Kubernetes spiked in the fall of 2019, according to Google Trends. The US Department of Defense’s announcement that they had deployed Kubernetes on an F-16 could have attributed to the surge in interest. Today, Kubernetes is found in virtually every industry; from building Blockchain networks to 5G networks, customers use Kubernetes to […]
Using IAM database authentication with workloads running on Amazon EKS
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane or nodes. When running containerized workloads on Amazon EKS, it is common to store the stateful parts of the application outside of the Kubernetes […]
Track costs with detailed billing reports for Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate
Many AWS customers use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to run container workloads on AWS Fargate because it offers reduced operational complexity with right-sized, on-demand compute for containers. As customers scale their deployments on Fargate, they have expressed a need to track consumption with more specificity, such as usage from individual pods, namespaces, clusters, […]
Measuring portability time objective as a metric for migrating to Red Hat Openshift Service on AWS (ROSA)
This post was co-written by Mark Taylor, OpenShift Systems Engineer, IBM Consulting; Ian Packer, Chief AWS Architect, IBM Consulting; and Arnaud Lauer, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS. Customers are putting greater focus on portability as part of their strategies when adopting cloud computing. Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) platform provides an agile and flexible […]