Containers

Category: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

How Condé Nast modernized its container platform on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

This post was co-written with Emily Atkinson, Senior Engineering Manager at Condé Nast. About Condé Nast Condé Nast is a global media company home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, AD, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New Yorker, Glamour, Allure, Bon Appétit, Self and many more. In 2014, Condé Nast started their journey in […]

How Sentra manages data workflows using Amazon EKS, Dagster, and Karpenter to maximize cost-efficiency with minimal operational overhead

By Yael Grossman Sr Compute Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, Roei Jacobovich Software Engineer at Sentra Introduction In this post, we’ll illustrate how Sentra utilizes Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), AWS Fargate , EC2 Spot, Karpenter, and an open-source version of Dagster, a cloud-native orchestrator, to run efficient and scalable data processing workloads on […]

Start Pods faster by prefetching images

Introduction Many AWS customers use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to run machine learning workloads. Containerization allows machine learning engineers to package and distribute models easily, while Kubernetes helps in deploying, scaling, and improving. When working with customers that run machine learning training jobs in Kubernetes, we ‘ve seen that as the data set […]

Managing edge-aware Service Mesh with Amazon EKS for AWS Local Zones

Introduction In a previous post, Deploy geo-distributed Amazon EKS cluster on AWS Wavelength, we introduced how to extend Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters closer to end-users for 5G network-connected applications. However, this exact pattern of using self-managed node groups also applies to AWS Local Zones, an infrastructure solution that brings AWS compute and […]

Tradeshift’s migration to Amazon EKS without downtime using Linkerd

This post was co-written by Ricardo Amato, Staff DevOps Engineer at Tradeshift, and Andreas Lindh, Specialist Solutions Architect, Containers at AWS. Introduction Tradeshift is a cloud-based business network and platform, which has run our applications in AWS using self-hosted Kubernetes for a number of years. In 2022, a decision was made to migrate from the […]

Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.26

Introduction The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) team is pleased to announce support for Kubernetes version 1.26 for Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro. Amazon EKS Anywhere (release 0.15.1) also supports Kubernetes 1.26. The theme for this version was chosen to recognize both the diverse components that the project comprises and the individuals who […]

Part 3: Multi-Cluster GitOps — Application onboarding

Introduction This is Part 3 in a series of blogs that demonstrates how to build an extensible and flexible GitOps system, based on a hub-and-spoke model to manage the lifecycles of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters, applications deployed to these clusters as well as their dependencies on other AWS managed resources. It’s recommended […]

Part 2: Multi-Cluster GitOps — Cluster fleet provisioning and bootstrapping

Introduction This is Part 2 in a series that demonstrates how to build an extensible and flexible GitOps system, based on a hub-and-spoke model to manage the lifecycles of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters, workloads deployed to these clusters as well as their dependencies on other AWS-managed resources. It’s recommended that you read Part […]

Part 1: Multi-Cluster GitOps using Amazon EKS, Flux, and Crossplane

Introduction GitOps is a way of managing application and infrastructure deployment so that the whole system is described declaratively in a Git repository. It’s an operational model that offers you the ability to manage the state of multiple Kubernetes clusters using the best practices of version control, immutable artifacts, and automation. Organizations have adopted GitOps […]

Introducing AWS Gateway API controller for Amazon VPC Lattice, an implementation of Kubernetes Gateway API

Introduction Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon VPC Lattice a new feature of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) that gives you a consistent way to connect, secure, and monitor communication between your services. As part of the launch of Amazon VPC Lattice, we’re excited to introduce the AWS Gateway API controller, an […]