Category: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Many organisations are in the process of migrating their applications to containers. Containers provide application-level dependency management, speedy launches, and support immutability. This can help reduce costs, increase velocity, and improve on efficiency. For securely managing the container lifecycle, container image hardening, and end-to-end security checks are critical factors. Containers need to be secured by […]

This post is contributed by Haseeb Budhani, CEO of Rafay AWS Wavelength is an infrastructure offering optimized for mobile edge computing applications. With Wavelength, developers can deploy their applications closer to end users, resulting in an improved end-user experience. Wavelength enables the development and adoption of a new class of latency-sensitive use cases that can […]

One of the most common requests we hear from customers is, “help me decide which container service to use.” We recommend that most teams begin by selecting a container solution with the attributes most aligned to their application requirements or operational preferences. This post covers some of the critical decisions involved in choosing between AWS […]

In this post, we will demonstrate how customers can leverage different AWS services in conjunction with AWS App Mesh to implement a canary deployment strategy for applications running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). As stated in the post “Getting started with App Mesh and EKS”, many customers are currently implementing microservices in a […]

The AWS Kubernetes team is back for the next installment of AWS Container Day: Kubernetes Edition, a full day of sessions on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes at AWS. In this fully live and virtual Twitch event, the AWS Kubernetes team, hosted by Containers from the Couch, will be covering new launches, demoing products and features, […]

Using containers brings flexibility, consistency, and portability in a DevOps culture. One of the essential parts of DevOps is creating Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines that deliver containerized application code faster and more reliably to production systems. Enabling canary or blue-green deployments in CI/CD pipelines provides more robust testing of the new application versions […]

The AWS ALB ingress controller allows you to easily provision an AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) from a Kubernetes ingress resource. Kubernetes users have been using it in production for years and it’s a great way to expose your Kubernetes services in AWS. We are pleased to announce that the ALB ingress controller is now […]

Introduction: Container technologies are becoming increasingly popular for customers developing new applications and migrating workloads to the cloud. One of the most common approaches to managing containers at scale is to utilize an orchestration technology such as AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). However, building a repeatable and reliable Kubernetes cluster in a multi-account (or multi-region) […]

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a fully automated Kubernetes cluster service on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Ubuntu is a popular and proven operating system for both virtual machine and containerized cloud computing. Canonical (the creator and primary maintainer of Ubuntu) is an Amazon partner and works with the EKS team to provide an optimized […]

This post was contributed by Ed Van Sickle, Product Manager, AWS Training Are you looking for a training course that is more than introductory level on Amazon EKS containers? Good news! We have one. AWS Training & Certification released “Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Container Service (Amazon EKS)” in October 2020. The course is […]