Containers
Author: Jens-Uwe Walther
Jens-Uwe Walther is a Senior Specialist Technical Account Manager for Containers at Amazon Web Services with 28 years of professional experience in IT based in Jena, Germany. He is passionate about Kubernetes and helping customers building container solutions on Amazon EKS. In his free time, he loves playing guitar, taking photographs and traveling with his wife into the wilderness.
Recent changes to the CoreDNS add-on
Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) add-ons were originally introduced in December 2021. At launch, they provided a mechanism for installing and managing a curated set of add-ons for Amazon EKS clusters. The add-on for CoreDNS was amongst the first add-ons we released because DNS plays such a pivotal role in Kubernetes. When advanced […]
Amazon EBS CSI driver is now generally available in Amazon EKS add-ons
Introduction To provide workloads with optional persistent storage, Kubernetes implements volume lifecycle operations and supports various types of storage for use with these operations. Currently, storage provider–specific code is kept in the Kubernetes project source code, which is referred to as in-tree. This code is complex to maintain and release, and is tied to the […]
Migrating Amazon EKS clusters from gp2 to gp3 EBS volumes
Kubernetes (sometimes referred to as K8s) is an open-source container orchestration engine and a fast-growing project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). K8s has a massive adoption on premises and in the cloud for running stateless and stateful containerized workloads. Stateful workloads require persistent storage. To support on-premises and cloud-provider-related infrastructure like storage […]