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Brad Watson

Author: Brad Watson

Brad Watson is a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He helps Worldwide Public Sector customers throughout their cloud journeys on AWS. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with friends and family and watching and playing sports.

Automating custom Amazon EKS worker node builds using EC2 Image Builder

Customers who are building their “Golden Image” Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) using EC2 Image Builder may wish to extend their Image Builder pipelines to build out their Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) worker nodes as well. In this blog, we will show you how to do this and provide you with AWS CloudFormation templates […]

Run Amazon EKS on RHEL Worker Nodes with IPVS Networking

Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS) provides excellent abstraction from managing the Kubernetes control plane and data plane nodes that are responsible for operating and managing a cluster. AWS offers managed Amazon Machine Images, or AMIs, for Amazon Linux 2, Bottlerocket, and Windows Server. Many customers have requirements, or simply prefer, to use Red […]