Containers

Rafay accelerates SonicWall’s adoption of containers and Amazon EKS

This post was contributed by Carmen Puccio, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS, and Haseeb Budhani, Co-Founder and CEO, Rafay Systems September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Background SonicWall, a storied technology company, delivers a broad suite of security products to protect enterprises and small and medium businesses […]

AWS Secrets Controller PoC: integrating AWS Secrets Manager with Kubernetes

Introduction Kubernetes allows you to store and manage sensitive information outside of the podSpec using a secret object, e.g. API key or certificate. Conceptually, this allows you to treat secrets differently than other types of Kubernetes objects. Nevertheless, a lot of customers avoided using Kubernetes Secrets for storing secret material because it did not include […]

Kubernetes RBAC and IAM Integration in Amazon EKS using a Java-based Kubernetes Operator

Introduction A Kubernetes native application is one that is deployed on a Kubernetes cluster and managed both using Kubernetes APIs as well as client-side tools such as kubectl. A Kubernetes Operator is an abstraction for deploying non-trivial Kubernetes applications such as an etcd database cluster or a Prometheus monitoring/alerting system. It provides a mechanism to […]

Infosys reimagines technology skill assessments with Wingspan using AWS Fargate

This post has been co-authored by Arpan Patro, Lead Architect at Infosys and Satheesh Kumar, Solutions Architect at AWS Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. Infosys has a strong workforce of over 240K employees spread across the globe providing business consulting, information technology, and outsourcing services. Challenge: Infosys serves their clients […]

Manage Amazon EKS with Okta SSO

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes. Okta is an API service that allows developers to create, edit, and securely store user accounts and user account data and connect them with one or multiple applications. Okta helps you provide access to the AWS Management […]

Maintaining Transport Layer Security all the way to your container: using the Application Load Balancer with Amazon ECS and Envoy

This post is contributed by Sri Mallu, Re Alvarez-Parmar, and Sahil Thapar Application Load Balancer has been an instrumental element when it comes to building highly available, scalable, and secure applications. AWS customers can rely on ALB to perform functions that have been traditionally implemented in application’s code. Let’s take connection security as an example, […]

Introducing server-side encryption of ephemeral storage using AWS Fargate-managed keys in AWS Fargate platform version 1.4

This post was contributed by Yuling Zhou, Eduardo Lopez Biagi, and Paavan Mistry. Today, we introduced server-side encryption of ephemeral storage in AWS Fargate platform version 1.4. The ephemeral task storage is automatically encrypted with industry-standard AES-256 encryption algorithm using AWS Fargate-managed keys for the updated platform version. This feature requires no additional configuration from […]

Accelerated model training and AI assisted annotation of medical images with the NVIDIA Clara Train application development framework on AWS

In May 2020, we released an AWS Quick Start that you can use to deploy a medical imaging model development environment on the AWS Cloud, with the NVIDIA Clara Train application framework. Numerous healthcare and life sciences customers, such as Philips and Cerner, trust AWS for their sensitive healthcare workloads. Secure, scalable cloud infrastructure enables […]

Streaming logs from Amazon EKS Windows pods to Amazon CloudWatch Logs using Fluentd

Containers are a method of operating system virtualization that allow you to run an application and its dependencies in resource-isolated processes. Containers allow you to easily package an application’s code, configurations, and dependencies into easy-to-use building blocks that deliver environmental consistency, operational efficiency, developer productivity, and version control. Using Windows containers allows you to get […]

Using Amazon FSx for Windows File Server on EKS Windows Containers

This blog post is deprecated and the solution is no longer valid. Please refer to the new solution that uses CSI Driver posted in the following blog post: Using SMB CSI Driver on Amazon EKS Windows nodes. Recently, we published a blog post on using Amazon FSx for Windows File Server as persistent storage for […]