Containers

Tag: Amazon EKS

Changes to the Kubernetes Container Image Registry

Introduction The release of Kubernetes 1.25 was when it was first announced that the Kubernetes project would be updating its official container image registry endpoint from k8s.gcr.io to the community owned registry, registry.k8s.io. The goal was to eventually sunset the old registry over time. However, as highlighted on the official Kubernetes website, this changeover has […]

Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.25

Introduction The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) team is pleased to announce support for Kubernetes version 1.25 for Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro. Amazon EKS Anywhere (release 0.14.2) also supports Kubernetes 1.25. The theme for this version was chosen to recognize both the diverse components that the project comprises and the individuals who […]

Using Azure Active Directory to authenticate to Amazon EKS

Introduction Many customers use Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) as their centralized corporate directory. One of the common requests from customers is to enable their users to use corporate credentials to access Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. This approach enables customers to use their already established way of providing authentication for corporate […]

Announcing General Availability of Amazon EKS Anywhere on Snow

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 […]

Introducing the Amazon EKS Workshop

Today we are delighted to announce the redesigned Amazon EKS Workshop, a Kubernetes-focused workshop created to familiarize you with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and related open-source technologies. The new workshop replaces the existing one, which is fully deprecated but continues to be accessible at archive.eksworkshop.com. The Amazon EKS Workshop is completely redesigned with […]

EKS Persistent Volumes for Instance Store

The Kubernetes project is made up of a number of special interest groups (SIGs) that focus on a particular part of the Kubernetes ecosystem. The Storage SIG is focused on different types of storage (block and file) and ensuring that storage is available to containers when they are scheduled. One of the subprojects of the Storage […]

Validating Amazon EKS optimized Bottlerocket AMI against the CIS Benchmark

Introduction As Kubernetes adoption grows, many organizations are choosing it as their platform to build and host their modern and secure applications. Security is one of the primary design criteria for many workloads, especially those dealing with sensitive data such as financial data processing. These workloads have a stringent requirement to adhere to various security […]

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 […]

Dynamic Spark Scaling on Amazon EKS with Argo Workflows and Events

Introduction Kubernetes has gained widespread adoption in the field of data processing because of its ability to package and deploy applications as containers with all required dependencies, as well as its support for running data frameworks. This makes it easy for developers to run their Data Analytics/Machine Learning (ML) applications within a Kubernetes cluster and […]

How to deploy your Quarkus application to Amazon EKS

This blog post is a continuation of an existing series of articles covering different use cases for Quarkus (Optimize your Java application for AWS Lambda with Quarkus and Optimize your Java application for Amazon ECS with Quarkus). In this blog post, I want to show how the Quarkus stack and additional extensions can be used […]