Tag: Amazon EKS Anywhere

Overview Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS Anywhere) is an opinionated and automated deployment of the Amazon EKS Distro that enables users to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on user-managed infrastructure. EKS Anywhere does not include a Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver for persistence. In this post, we setup OpenEBS to provide persistence using the disks available in […]

Introduction The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) team is pleased to announce support for Kubernetes version 1.28 for Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro. Amazon EKS Anywhere (release 0.18.0) also supports Kubernetes 1.28. The theme for this version was chosen as a play on words that combines plant and Kubernetes to evoke the image […]

This post was co-written with Sparsh Agarwal, Senior Product Manager at Salesforce Introduction Amazon EKS Anywhere (Amazon EKS-A) takes the power of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) beyond the AWS cloud and enables you to run Amazon EKS on your own infrastructure. It provides an installable software package for creating and operating Kubernetes clusters […]

Introduction With the proliferation of open-source and commercial container software products, customers want to know upfront which products are compatible with the container orchestrator of their choice. Customers expect compatibility testing to be continuous and include all the available dimensions, such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) / Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS-A) versions, OS, […]

This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship; a tale of two cloud services, traveling down two seemingly independent paths, destined to converge. But first, a brief history: Since their launch in November of 2018, AWS Snowball Edge devices have been used to run applications for data processing, analytics, and machine learning in remote or […]

Introduction Amazon EKS Anywhere (Amazon EKS-A) allows customers to run containerized workloads on customer-managed hardware. Amazon EKS-A cluster upgrades are performed in place using a rolling process (similar to Kubernetes Deployments). Upgrades can only happen one minor version at a time (e.g., version 1.20 to 1.21) and Control plane components will be upgraded before worker […]

We are happy to announce the general availability of Amazon EKS Anywhere on Bare Metal. We released Amazon EKS Anywhere in 2021 with support to run on-premises Kubernetes clusters using VMware and today you can use EKS Anywhere to provision clusters without virtualization. The new functionality adds support for managing the full hardware lifecycle to […]

Introduction At one time, all servers were bare metal servers. We have come a long way with virtualization, cloud computing, and more recently with containers and serverless technologies. Despite these innovations, bare metal servers remain popular on premises. Customers run applications on bare metal infrastructure for performance benefits, to gain direct access to underlying hardware […]