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Sana Jawad

Author: Sana Jawad

Sana has 16 years of experience and leads a global, cross-functional team building a substrate-agnostic, multi-tenant Kubernetes Platform at Salesforce. Her team delivers Kubernetes Platform-as-a-Service, allowing engineers to run microservices without managing infrastructure complexity. The platform, one of the largest in the industry, supports Salesforce's Hyperforce transformation with thousands of clusters powering products like Sales, Service, Commerce, MuleSoft, and Tableau. It emphasizes scalability, observability, and developer agility using technologies like Kubernetes, Knative, Karpenter, Terraform, Argo, and Spinnaker.

How Salesforce migrated from Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter across their fleet of 1,000 EKS clusters

This blog post examines how Salesforce, operating one of the world’s largest Kubernetes deployments, successfully migrated from Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter across their fleet of 1,000 plus Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters.