Containers
Category: Customer Solutions
Scale from 100 to 10,000 pods on Amazon EKS
This post was co-authored by Nikhil Sharma and Ravishen Jain of OLX Autos Introduction We, at OLX Autos run more than 100 non-production (non-prod) environments in parallel for different use-cases on home grown Internal Developer Platform (IDP), ORION. ORION runs on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Each of the Autos environment consists of at […]
Announcing general availability of cdk8s+ and support for manifest validation
This post was co-written by Shimon Tolts, CEO and Co-Founder, Datree. Introduction On July of 2020, we introduced the beta version of cdk8s+, a high-level intent driven application programming interface (API) designed to simplify Kubernetes resource configuration. Since its release, we’ve been working on adding capabilities and collecting feedback from our customers. Today, we’re happy […]
Secure Bottlerocket deployments on Amazon EKS with KubeArmor
Introduction Bottlerocket is a security focused operating system (OS) image that provides out-of-the-box security options to protect host or worker nodes. While Bottlerocket is useful, the security of the pods and the containers is still the responsibility of the application developer or provider. KubeArmor, a CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) sandbox project, is a runtime […]
How GPO achieved infrastructure provisioning efficiency from weeks to minutes using AWS Proton
This post was co-written by Joshua Major, VP of Engineering, GPO, and Jesse Varnado, Director of Engineering, GPO. Introduction AWS Proton is a managed service for platform engineers to increase the pace of innovation by defining, vending, and maintaining infrastructure templates for self-service deployments. With AWS Proton, customers can standardize centralized templates to meet security, […]
Securing Amazon Elastic Container Service applications using Application Load Balancer and Amazon Cognito
Introduction Designing and maintaining secure user management, authentication and other related features for applications is not an easy task. Amazon Cognito takes care of this work, which allows developers to focus on building the core business logic of the application. Amazon Cognito provides user management, authentication, and authorization for applications where users can log in […]
Scaling Kubernetes with Karpenter: Advanced Scheduling with Pod Affinity and Volume Topology Awareness
This post was co-written by Lukonde Mwila, Principal Technical Evangelist at SUSE, an AWS Container Hero, and a HashiCorp Ambassador. Introduction Cloud-native technologies are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and Kubernetes is at the forefront of this movement. Today, Kubernetes is seeing widespread adoption across organizations in a variety of different industries. When implemented properly, Kubernetes can […]
Kubernetes cluster upgrade: the blue-green deployment strategy
This article was co-written by Michael Marie Julie and Quentin Bernard from TheFork, one of the leading online restaurant booking and discovery platforms in Europe and Australia. In loving memory of our dear colleague Olivier Lebhard. Introduction Context Kubernetes has become a new standard in our industry, with great built-in features and an incredible abstraction […]
Actuate uses AWS Fargate for ML-based, real-time video monitoring and threat detection
This post was written in collaboration with Scott Underwood, Jacob Weiss, Tatiana Hanazaki, and Mark Berbera from Actuate AI. The goal at Actuate AI is to leverage technology to make the world a safer place. Our team at Actuate AI aims to do that by using cutting-edge computer vision to reduce the response time of […]
Amazon EKS and Spot Instances in action at Delivery Hero
This post was coauthored by Christos Skevis, Senior Engineering Manager, Delivery Hero; Giovanny Salazar, Senior Systems Engineer, Delivery Hero; Miguel Mingorance, Senior Systems Engineer at Delivery Hero at the time the blog post was written; Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Flexible Compute, AWS; and Sascha Möllering, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, Containers, AWS. This post […]
Using AWS Proton as a provisioning mechanism for Amazon EKS clusters
AWS customers have a number of options they can use to deploy Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. They can use the EKS console workflows, the eksctl CLI, the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), or several other options. There is often a single Ops-savvy user (or team) picking one of these options to […]