Containers

Category: Compute

Amazon ECS vs Amazon EKS: making sense of AWS container services

One of the most common requests we hear from customers is, “help me decide which container service to use.” We recommend that most teams begin by selecting a container solution with the attributes most aligned to their application requirements or operational preferences. This post covers some of the critical decisions involved in choosing between AWS […]

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Create a pipeline with canary deployments for Amazon EKS with AWS App Mesh

In this post, we will demonstrate how customers can leverage different AWS services in conjunction with AWS App Mesh to implement a canary deployment strategy for applications running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). As stated in the post “Getting started with App Mesh and EKS”, many customers are currently implementing microservices in a […]

Advice for customers dealing with Docker Hub rate limits, and a Coming Soon announcement

Many container customers building applications use common software packages (e.g. operating systems, databases, and application components) that are publicly distributed as container images on Docker Hub. Docker, Inc. has announced that the Hub service will begin limiting the rate at which images are pulled under their anonymous and free plans. These limits will progressively take […]

Save the date: AWS Container Day: Kubernetes Edition

The AWS Kubernetes team is back for the next installment of AWS Container Day: Kubernetes Edition, a full day of sessions on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes at AWS. In this fully live and virtual Twitch event, the AWS Kubernetes team, hosted by Containers from the Couch, will be covering new launches, demoing products and features, […]

CI/CD with Amazon EKS using AWS App Mesh and Gitlab CI

Using containers brings flexibility, consistency, and portability in a DevOps culture. One of the essential parts of DevOps is creating Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines that deliver containerized application code faster and more reliably to production systems. Enabling canary or blue-green deployments in CI/CD pipelines provides more robust testing of the new application versions […]

How to set Fluentd and Fluent Bit input parameters in FireLens

This post was contributed by Ben Anscombe, DevOps Engineer at Space Ape Games and Wesley Pettit, Software Engineer at AWS. September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. FireLens for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) was launched last year to make it easy for ECS customers to […]

Amazon EKS cluster automation with GitLab CI/CD

Introduction: Container technologies are becoming increasingly popular for customers developing new applications and migrating workloads to the cloud. One of the most common approaches to managing containers at scale is to utilize an orchestration technology such as AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). However, building a repeatable and reliable Kubernetes cluster in a multi-account (or multi-region) […]

Introducing Ubuntu support for Amazon EKS 1.18

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a fully automated Kubernetes cluster service on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Ubuntu is a popular and proven operating system for both virtual machine and containerized cloud computing. Canonical (the creator and primary maintainer of Ubuntu) is an Amazon partner and works with the EKS team to provide an optimized […]

Learn how to run containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service with our new instructor-led course

This post was contributed by Ed Van Sickle, Product Manager, AWS Training Are you looking for a training course that is more than introductory level on Amazon EKS containers? Good news! We have one. AWS Training & Certification released “Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Container Service (Amazon EKS)” in October 2020. The course is […]