Containers
Category: Containers
Building multi-arch containers with GitHub Actions in AWS
This blog was authored by Zakiya Randall, Technical Account Manager and co-written with Muru Bhaskaran, Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect. Introduction As the landscape of computing continues to evolve, there is a growing emphasis on supporting a diverse range of computing architectures. This shift is driven by the need for flexibility, efficiency, and performance optimization across […]
Modify Amazon EBS volumes on Kubernetes with Volume Attributes Classes
This post was jointly authored by Kevin Liu (Senior PMT), Jens-Uwe Walther (Senior STAM-Containers), and Drew Sirenko (Software Dev Engineer). Introduction In this post, we explore how to modify Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes on Kubernetes without application downtime. Learn how to use the VolumeAttributesClass API alongside the Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface […]
Automating AL2023 custom hardened AMI updates for Amazon EKS managed nodes
This post was authored by Abhishek Nanda, Containers Specialist Solutions Architect and co-written with Jayaprakash Alawala, Principal Container Specialist Solutions Architect and Rajesh Singh, Sr. Containers Specialist BDM. Introduction Amazon EKS users in the Regulatory and Compliance industry invest time and effort to build EKS custom AMIs for the worker nodes Operating System (OS) to […]
A deep dive into Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes
This blog was authored by Chris Splinter, Principal Product Manager, AWS Kubernetes, Elamaran Shanmugam, Sr. Container Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS, Re Alvarez Parmar, Containers Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS. We are excited to announce the general availability of a new feature for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that we launched at re:Invent 2024 called Amazon […]
How webMethods iPaaS built a multi-tenant SaaS platform on Amazon EKS
This post was authored by Markus Kokott, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS and co-written with Balaji Balakrishnan, Head of Platform Services & DevOps, Santa Kumar Bethanapalli, Head of Cloud Operations & SRE, and Natarajan Ramani, Lead Platform Engineer, from webMethods iPaaS. Introduction In this post, we discuss webMethods’ journey in transitioning webMethods iPaaS into a successful […]
Optimize your container workloads for sustainability
This blog was authored by Karthik Rajendran, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS) and Isha Dua, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS). The software architect’s job is mostly one of trade-offs, weighing the considerations of different approaches and then choosing the one that strikes the best balance. Some architects are surprised to find that, in the AWS Cloud at least, architecting […]
Announcing Bottlerocket FIPS variants
Introduction In 2020, AWS announced Bottlerocket, an open source, container-optimized Linux distribution designed for hosting containers. Each Bottlerocket image, known as a variant, is specialized for a specific combination of container orchestrator and cloud environment. Bottlerocket variants are provided to users as a set of Amazon Machine Images (AMI), currently optimized for either Amazon Elastic Container […]
Migrating from x86 to AWS Graviton on Amazon EKS using Karpenter
This blog was authored by Johannes Brück, Senior Staff Engineer (Personio), Donald Dragoti, Lead Platform Engineer (Personio), Steve Flinchbaugh, Lead Platform Engineer (Personio), Maximilian Schellhorn, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS) and Dionysios Kakaletris, Technical Account Manager (AWS). Migrating your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) nodes to use AWS Graviton based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon […]
Getting started with Amazon EKS Auto Mode
This post is co-authored by Alex Kestner (Sr Product Manager, Amazon EKS), Ashley Ansari (Sr. Product Marketing Manager), Robert Northard (Principal GTM SSA Containers), and Sheetal Joshi (Principal Solution Architect, Containers). Introduction We announced general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode that provides a new capability streamlining Kubernetes cluster management for […]
Transforming Istio into an enterprise-ready service mesh for Amazon ECS
This post is authored by John Howard(Senior Architect, Solo.io), Petr McAllister(Engineer on the Partner Team, Solo.io), Christian Posta(VP, Global Field CTO, Solo.io) and Jooyoung Kim (Senior Containers Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS). Introduction Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed service that streamlines the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. Although Amazon […]