AWS Container Day

  • AWS Container Day at KubeCon NA 2022
  • AWS Container Day at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022

    October 25, 2022

    Join us in person for AWS Container Day featuring Kubernetes, a free Day 0 event for attendees of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022. AWS and guest speakers will share technical deep dives, product demos, and best practices intended to help you deploy, manage, secure, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. Seating is limited, and pre-registration is required. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 attendees can register for one or both of the AWS Container Day sessions when they register for the conference. If you’ve already registered, you can add AWS Container Day sessions to your registration on the 4th tab under Co-Located events.

    Interested in other AWS events and speakers at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022? Check out our event page for more information.

  • AWS Container Days @ KubeCon 2022 Europe
  • AWS Container Days @ KubeCon 2022 Europe

    May 10th-13th, and 17th, 2022

    View the agenda and register here: awscontainerdayseurope.splashthat.com 

    Join us for a virtual and live AWS Containers Days at KubeCon Europe 2022! In the days leading up to Kubecon Europe we’ll be spending the week talking about how you can deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. These sessions, led by our AWS Kubernetes team and guest speakers, will contain technical deep dives, product demos, and best practices.

    If you missed AWS Container Day @ KubeCon North America on October 12th, 2021, watch the sessions here.

  • AWS Container Day x KubeCon 2021
  • AWS Container Day x KubeCon 2021

    Event details

    Join us for Container Day x KubeCon Americas on October 12th 2021, a fully live, virtual day of sessions all about Amazon EKS and Kubernetes at AWS, hosted by Justin Garrison and Jesse Butler from Containers from the Couch. At this Day Zero KubeCon event, the AWS Kubernetes team will be discussing new features, demoing products, covering best practices, and answering your questions live on Twitch!

    If you missed AWS Container Day @ KubeCon North America on October 12th, 2021, watch the sessions here.

  • AWS Container Day 2020: Kubernetes Edition
  • AWS Container Day 2020: Kubernetes Edition

    Event details

    Join us for AWS Container Day, a fully live, virtual day of sessions all about Amazon EKS and Kubernetes at AWS, hosted by Containers from the Couch. At this Day Zero KubeCon event, the AWS Kubernetes team will be discussing new launches, demoing products and features, covering best practices, and answering your questions live on Twitch.

    If you missed Container Day: Kubernetes Edition, catch up on sessions here.

  • AWS Container Day EU Virtual
  • AWS Container Day EU Virtual

    AWS Container Day - Keynote with Bob Wise

    In this talk, Bob Wise, GM of Kubernetes, shares the latest and greatest on EKS and Kubernetes at AWS.

    AWS Container Day - Amazon EKS Roadmap and Vision

    Kubernetes is being rapidly adopted by organizations to help simplify how they deploy and manage their applications across cloud and on-premises environments. With Amazon EKS, AWS offers customers a highly-reliable, scalable, and fully-managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy to migrate to or scale on Kubernetes. In this session, Nathan Taber, Sr. Product Manager for Amazon EKS will cover the vision and plan for how AWS is innovating its flagship Kubernetes service to simplify managing Kubernetes in production, help customers adopt Kubernetes throughout their organizations, and enable new workloads. Slides »

    AWS Container Day - Amazon Controllers for Kubernetes

    Do you love the Kubernetes API and user experience? Do you love declaratively defining your application as a Deployment or Daemonset, a Service, and maybe an Ingress manifest, and letting the magic of Kubernetes handle the orchestration of your application deployment? Until now, if you had some dependencies on an AWS managed service resources — an S3 Bucket, an SNS Topic, a DynamoDB Table, etc — you needed to use a tool like Terraform or CloudFormation to manage the creation and life-cycle of those resource dependencies. With AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK), you can now define your application’s AWS managed service resources using your cozy Kubernetes API and manifests! No need to use a different configuration system or log into the AWS Console!

    AWS Container Day - Kubernetes Networking on AWS

    Mastering networking in Kubernetes requires a deep understanding multiple concepts including DNS, routing, iptables, and network policies, and even the most experienced practitioners can find it challenging to understand exactly how all the pieces fit together. In this session, we’ll delve into the unique approach AWS has taken to simplify Kubernetes networking. Learn how exposing VPC native networking into Kubernetes clusters improves application performance and removes complexities from network configuration. Slides »

    AWS Container Day - CDK for Kubernetes

    The CDK for Kubernetes (cdk8s) is a new open-source software development framework for defining Kubernetes applications and resources using familiar programming languages. In this session, we will show you how to define your first cdk8s application, define reusable components called “constructs” and generally say goodbye (and thank you very much) to writing in YAML. We’ll also introduce our construct library cdk8s+ and show you how you can accelerate application development and adoption using cdk8s for any Kubernetes cluster. Slides »

    AWS Container Day - Customizing Managed Node Groups

    Managed Node Groups provide for automated provisioning and lifecycle management of nodes within Amazon EKS clusters. This means the responsibility of instance provisioning and node upgrade tasks falls on EKS. While this feature solves a number of problems, until now it has been limited regarding configuration options and customizations for your nodes. In this session, we’ll demonstrate the use of Launch Templates and Custom AMIs for Managed Node Groups. Launch templates provide a declarative method for specifying EC2 instance configuration, including user data and base environment modifications. For deeper customization requirements, custom AMIs are now supported as well, establishing a full range of customization options for use with managed node groups. Sldies »

    AWS Container Day - Bottlerocket: an Open Source Container Host OS

    More workloads are moving to orchestrated containers every day. Initially, this was business line applications and the management of the compute and storage was handled separately. As more and more features are added to orchestrators or provided as containerized solutions by third parties, the underlying operating system that runs your containers can become very focused. This is why we built Bottlerocket. It has just enough software to start OCI containers, we can harden it in many ways that are very difficult on a traditional OS and we can provide pre-validated updates that move from a known working state to a new state and rollback if needed. Bottlerocket is open source on github and has been designed to be modular so it can be extended to work on prem, in a hybrid cloud scenario and with many combinations of software. Slides » 

    AWS Container Day - CloudWatch Container Insights Now Monitors Prometheus Metrics

    You can use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor Prometheus metrics from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Kubernetes clusters, now available in beta. With this new feature, DevOps teams can automatically discover services for containerized workloads such as AWS App Mesh, NGINX, HAProxy, Memcache, and Java/JMX, and use Automatic Dashboards that visualize the health of these workloads. The new Container Insights console experience also provides the ability to manage resources and visualize the hierarchy of your containerized applications. Slides »

    AWS Container Day - Persistent File Storage for Amazon EKS with Amazon EFS

    Containerizing applications that require data persistence or shared storage is often challenging since containers are ephemeral in nature, are scaled in and out dynamically, and typically clear any saved state when terminated. In this session you will learn about Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), a fully managed, elastic, highly-available, scalable, secure, high-performance, cloud native, shared file system that enables data to be persisted separately from compute for your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) deployments. You’ll gain an understanding of the EFS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, and how it simplifies configuring elastic file storage for Kubernetes clusters. Slides »

    AWS Container Day - Running Arm nodes with AWS Graviton on Amazon EKS

    A primary goal of running containers is to improve the cost efficiency for your applications. AWS Graviton2 processors deliver a major leap in performance and capabilities as well as significant cost savings. In this talk we will cover what you need to know to start using AWS Graviton2 instances with your Amazon EKS clusters. We will discuss good practices for writing and operating multi-architecture applications as well as add-ons. Slides »

    AWS Container Day - Security Best Practices for Amazon EKS

    Containers provide a convenient mechanism for packaging and deploying applications. It also changes the way the you secure your environment in significant ways. As you explore moving to containers you are likely to discover that security software originally designed to run on hosts is no longer applicable in a containerized environment. A new set of best practices are necessary to account for the changes that containers bring. This session will review the essential best practices and features available within Kubernetes and EKS to secure your containerized environments. Slides »

    AWS Container Day - CIS Amazon EKS Benchmark

    CIS EKS Benchmark allows customers to conform to security configuration good practices aligned with CIS Kubernetes Benchmark for their Amazon EKS clusters. In this session, we gain understanding of the recently released benchmark and get hands-on with Kubernetes security configuration assessment against an EKS cluster using an open-source tool – kube-bench – and review the node security report. Slides »

    AWS Container Day - Amazon EKS and AWS Fargate: Better Together

    In this brief demo-led session we are going to show you how it is possible to use EKS and Fargate together. The combination of EKS and Fargate allows you to move away from managing infrastructure resources. In fact, EKS provides a robust fully managed Kubernetes control plane while Fargate, an AWS managed serverless environment for containers, allows you to focus on deploying your Kubernetes pods rather than having to size, scale, manage and life-cycle your Kubernetes worker nodes. This session will introduce these concepts and will show how you can use the two services together. Slides »

  • Container Day San Diego 2019
  • AWS Container Day - San Diego, California, USA

    AWS Container Day San Diego - Keynote with Bob Wise

    In this opening keynote, Kubernets GM Bob Wise covers how to evolve DevOps to GitOps, the why, the what and where we are heading. What are the motivators, effective strategies and deployment challenges. Slides »

    AWS Container Day San Diego - Keynote with Pratik Wadher

    Hear from Intuit VP Product Development, Pratik Wadher, thoughts on the GitOps @ Enterprise Scale and Argo. Slides »

    AWS Container Day San Diego - Keynote with Alexis Richardson

    Hear from CEO Weaveworks, Alexis Richardson, how to manage EKS at scale with GitOps, Argo & Flux merging in CNCF. Slides »

    AWS Container Day San Diego - Panel Discussion with Keynote Speakers moderated by Jay Pipes

    Panel Discussion moderated by Jay Pipes with Keynote Speakers: Bob Wise, Pratik Wadher, (Intuit), Alexis Richardson (Weaveworks)

    AWS Container Day San Diego - Amazon EKS Roadmap - Eswar Bala

    In this session, hear from Eswar Bala, Sr. Manager, Software Development, about the past, present and future of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), including features launched, EKS tenets and investment areas. Slides »

    AWS Container Day San Diego - Amazon EKS Roadmap - Nathan Taber

    In this session, hear from Nathan Taber, Sr. Product Manager, about the vision, new regions, high performance and features coming for EKS. Slides »

    AWS Container Day San Diego - AWS App Mesh - Shubha Rao

    Hear from Shubha Rao, Principal Product Manager, about App Mesh features and roadmap. Slides »

    AWS Container Day San Diego - Progressive Delivery with App Mesh & EKS - Flagger - Stefan Prodan

    In this session, hear from Stefan Prodan from Weaveworks, about progressive Delivery with AWS App Mesh & Amazon EKS, using Flagger, a service mesh progressive delivery operator. Slides »

    AWS Container Day San Diego - Machine Learning with Kubernetes - Yaniv Donenfeld & Jiaxin Shan

    In this session, hear from Yaniv Donenfeld, AI/ML Solutions, and Jiaxin Shan, Software Development Engineer, about how AWS is putting machine learning in the hands of every developer. Slides »

    AWS Container Day San Diego - Continuous Security with your DevOps Pipeline - Jason Dablow

    Hear from Jason Dablow, cloud security ninja from Trendmicro about how to break bad (habits) and continuous security throughout your DevOps Pipeline. Slides »

    AWS Container Day San Diego - Fluent Bit open source project & AWS - Eduardo Silva & Wesley Pettit

    In this session, hear from Eduardo Silva from Treasure Data and Wesley Pettit, from AWS, about Fluent Bit open source project, logging with Data Insights. Slides »

    AWS Container Day San Diego - Monitoring Network Traffic in K8s- Michael Gerstenhaber (Datadog)
    In this session, hear from Michael Gerstenhaber, Director of product at Datadog, about monitoring network traffic in Kubernetes. 
    AWS Container Day San Diego - EKS Cost Optimization with EC2 Spot - Arthur Petitpierre

    Hear from Arthur Petitpierre, Specialist Solutions Architect, about EKS Cost Optimization with EC2 Spot and A1 Instances. Slides »

    AWS Container Day San Diego - A DevOps platform as a single application - Dan Gordon (GitLab)
    In this session, hear from Dan Gordon, Technical Marketing from GitLab, about a complete DevOps platform as a single application.
    AWS Container Day San Diego - Birds of a Feather - Michael Hausenblaus

    Birds of a Feather community session, with Q&A, moderated by Michael Hausenblaus.

  • Container Day Barcelona 2019
  • AWS Container Day May 20, 2019 - Barcelona, Spain

    AWS Container Day- Welcome with Abby Fuller

    Missed the AWS Container Day 2019 in Barcelona? Don't worry we got you covered. Follow this track to learn more about running Kubernetes on Amazon EKS. Slides>>

    AWS Container Day- Keynote with Bob Wise

    In this opening keynote, EKS GM Bob Wise covers how we got to our current container landscape, container best practices, and how EKS has grown in the past year of general availability. We also learn how the EKS team has contributed to the open source community. Slides>>

    AWS Container Day- Keynote with Mark Shuttleworth

    Hear from Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth's thoughts on the Kubernetes community and embracing Amazon EKS. Slides>>

    AWS Container Day- Keynote with Craig McLuckie
    Hear from Craig McLuckie, a founding member of Kubernetes, give an introduction to Kubernetes and his opinions on where the Kubernetes community is now to where it can go.  Slides>>
    AWS Container Day- EKS RoadMap and Philosophy

    In this session, hear about the philosophies that drive the EKS product team and learn what has been accomplished in the year that EKS has been generally available. Check out the EKS public road map where you can add features that you would like to see! Slides>>

    AWS Container Day- Twistlock Partner Demo

    In this session, Twistlock demonstrates the benefits of running App Mesh with EKS and walks through the requirements for securely deploying a service mesh. You'll learn how to securely deploy a service mesh and best practices to protect your App Mesh + EKS environments.

    AWS Container Day- App Mesh (Service Mesh Magic)

    In this session, learn about how AWS App Mesh can help give you end-to-end visibility and manage traffic routing to ensure high availability for your microservice. We will cover what the need for a service mesh is, capabilities of App Mesh, and show you a demo. Slides>>

    AWS Container Day- Datadog Partner Demo

    In this session, Datadog dives into monitoring using App Mesh. Learn about the detailed metrics that Datadog provides to help you gain visibility into your App Mesh service. Slides>>

    AWS Container Day- Introduction to EKS Workshop

    In this session, we give you an overview of the EKS workshop. This a great introduction to deploying your first cluster to EKS. The intent of this workshop is to educate you about the features of Amazon EKS.

    AWS Container Day- Weaveworks Partner Demo

    In this session, learn about Flagger, an open source Kubernetes operator that aims to untangle complexity. It automates the promotion of canary deployments utilizing App Mesh traffic shifting and Prometheus metrics to analyze an application’s behavior during a controlled rollout. Slides>>

    AWS Container Day- Machine Learning with Kubernetes

    In this session, we discuss Machine Learning on Kubernetes and the advantages for running it on AWS. We also show you a demo of the updates to Escalator - a cluster auto scaling component tuned for batch/ML workloads, and EC2 GPU instance autoscaling. Slides>>

    AWS Container Day- New Relic Partner Demo

    In this demo, New Relic shows how to observe performance and dependencies in your EKS environment. They also cover troubleshooting failures, bottlenecks, and abnormal behavior to ensure your applications are always available, running fast, and doing what they’re supposed to. Slides>>

    AWS Container Day- EC2 Spot Instances

    In this session, we look into how you can get started with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to better optimize your costs. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS cloud. We also cover best practices to ensure success with Spot. Slides>>

    AWS Container Day- CloudWatch (Container Insights)

    In this session, we dive into how Amazon CloudWatch gives visibility into your cloud resources and applications. We also give you a demo of CloudWatch Container Insights, a fully managed observability service for monitoring, troubleshooting, and alarming on your containerized applications and microservices. Slides>>

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