Containers
Author: Geeta Gharpure
Geeta is a senior software developer on Annapurna ML engineering team. She is focused on running large scale AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes. She lives in Sunnyvale, CA and enjoys listening to audible in her free time.
Announcing AWS Neuron Helm Chart
Introduction We are pleased to announce the launch of the Neuron Helm Chart, which streamlines the deployment of AWS Neuron components on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). With this new Helm Chart, you can now seamlessly install the necessary Kubernetes artifacts needed to run training and inference workloads on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia instances. Until now, […]
Managing etcd database size on Amazon EKS clusters
Note: (Updated July 2026) Amazon EKS publishes the metric etcd_mvcc_db_total_size_in_use_in_bytes in Amazon CloudWatch under the AWS/EKS namespace. This is the metric that determines whether a cluster exceeds its database quota and enters read-only mode. The previously recommended metric (etcd_db_total_size_in_bytes, renamed to apiserver_storage_size_bytes since EKS v1.28) represents the physical file size on disk and is not […]