Category: Open Source

This years’ North American series of the Open Source Summit produced by the Linux Foundation was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, and AWS was present to support the event as a gold sponsor. The conference week began with a number of co-located events such as the Linux Security Summit and CHAOSScon, and there was plenty […]

Note: This article was written and published in 2018, so instructions and links may be outdated. The Canonical Public Cloud (CPC) team provides a prepared, ready-to-use version of the Ubuntu 18.04 ‘LTS’ release, Bionic, customized for use with the Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS). If you are currently an Ubuntu user, you are […]

We’ve talked about FaaS (Functions as a Service) in Running FaaS on a Kubernetes Cluster on AWS Using Kubeless by Sebastien Goasguen. In this post, Alex Ellis, founder of the OpenFaaS project, walks you through how to use OpenFaaS on Amazon EKS. OpenFaaS is one of the most popular tools in the FaaS space, with […]

In July, the Open Source Conference (OSCON) returned home to Portland, Oregon, for its 20th anniversary, and what a week it was: seeing old friends, meeting new ones, hearing interesting talks, learning new skills with sessions on AI, IoT, blockchain, and re-visiting some favorite places in Portland. The week began with the Community Leadership Summit, […]

It’s a joyful experience for a developer when you can focus just on building an application, and rely on a tool to do the grunt work of pushing that application to a Kubernetes cluster. When the tool makes use of your existing knowledge of git, it only adds to the pleasure! In this post, Tirumarai […]

AWS Service Catalog allows you to centrally manage commonly-deployed AWS services in your organization. Customers are using Service Catalog to meet compliance requirements while enabling their users to quickly deploy only the approved and curated selection of resources within AWS. We have seen organizations who would like to integrate their internal tools and web portals […]

  The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and Kubernetes Metrics Server are now supported by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This makes it easy to scale your Kubernetes workloads managed by Amazon EKS in response to custom metrics. One of the benefits of using containers is the ability to quickly autoscale your application up or down. For […]

The third annual RustConf was held this year in Portland, Oregon, on August 16th and 17th. The Rust community showed its strengths once again, teaching an enthusiastic crowd about building safe communities and safe abstractions. With the 2018 Edition of Rust coming soon, we were excited to talk to everyone and show our support. Through […]

Note: Please see the latest blog Getting Started with Istio on Amazon EKS on this topic (Feb 22, 2024) Service Meshes enable service-to-service communication in a secure, reliable, and observable way. In this blog post, Matt Turner, CTO at Native Wave, explains the concept of a Service Mesh, shows how Istio can be installed as […]

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) provides an optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and AWS CloudFormation template that make it easy to provision worker nodes for your Amazon EKS cluster on AWS. These assets are both open source and available now on Github. In addition to the EKS Optimized AMI, the Packer by Hashicorp […]