Containers
Upcoming Changes to IP Assignment for EKS Managed Node Groups
When using Amazon EKS, all nodes need the ability to connect to the EKS-hosted Kubernetes cluster and to other AWS APIs such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) or Amazon S3. Nodes can run in private or public subnets. For private subnets, this traffic typically routes through an AWS PrivateLink connection to reach endpoints within […]
Enabling cross-account access to Amazon EKS cluster resources
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to stand up or maintain your own Kubernetes control plane. The recent launches of managed node groups and Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate removes the need to provision and manage infrastructure for pods. Kubernetes […]
Enable traffic encryption between services in AWS App Mesh using AWS Certificate Manager or customer-provided certificates
NOTICE: October 04, 2024 – This post no longer reflects the best guidance for configuring a service mesh with Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS, and its examples no longer work as shown. For workloads running on Amazon ECS, please refer to newer content on Amazon ECS Service Connect, and for workloads running on Amazon EKS, […]
Using EKS encryption provider support for defense-in-depth
Gyuho Lee, Rashmi Dwaraka, and Michael Hausenblas When we announced that we plan to natively support the AWS Encryption Provider in Amazon EKS, the feedback we got from you was pretty clear: can we have it yesterday? Now we’re launching EKS support for the encryption provider, a vital defense-in-depth security feature. That is, you can […]
Access Logging Made Easy with AWS App Mesh and Fluent Bit
NOTICE: October 04, 2024 – This post no longer reflects the best guidance for configuring a service mesh with Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS, and its examples no longer work as shown. For workloads running on Amazon ECS, please refer to newer content on Amazon ECS Service Connect, and for workloads running on Amazon EKS, […]
The role of AWS Fargate in the container world
In 2017, we introduced a serverless service to run containers at scale called AWS Fargate. Today, customers are launching tens of millions of containers on it every week. Customers keep telling us that the reason they love Fargate is because it removes a lot of the infrastructure undifferentiated heavy lifting. For example, they no longer […]
App Mesh Integration with AWS ALB Ingress Controller
NOTICE: October 04, 2024 – This post no longer reflects the best guidance for configuring a service mesh with Amazon EKS and its examples no longer work as shown. Please refer to newer content on Amazon VPC Lattice. ——– AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for […]
Game DevOps made easy with AWS Game-Server CD Pipeline
This is a guest post by Anita Buehrle of Weaveworks. The biggest challenge faced by game publishers is the ability to deliver new features to players as quickly as possible. Not only do new features have to arrive quickly and reliably, but they also need to be delivered in a way that optimizes costs and […]
Create a CI/CD pipeline for Amazon ECS with GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild Tests
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easy to operate containerized workloads at scale. It also integrates with other core AWS services, such as Amazon Route 53, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon CloudWatch. Establishing an effective and efficient CI/CD pipeline is critical for containerized […]
AWS CodeDeploy now supports linear and canary deployments for Amazon ECS
AWS CodeDeploy has extended blue/green deployment support for Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to include canary and linear deployments for applications hosted on AWS Fargate or Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Blue/green deployments are a safe deployment strategy provided by AWS CodeDeploy for minimizing interruptions caused by changing application versions. This is accomplished by creating […]