Category: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Introduction The Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks are best practices for the secure configuration of a target system. They define various Benchmarks for Kubernetes control plane and the data plane. For Amazon EKS clusters, it is strongly recommended to follow the CIS Amazon EKS Benchmark. If the data plane of an Amazon EKS cluster uses Amazon Linux […]

Introduction Customers are moving to cloud thanks to its scalability and cost-effectiveness. Some are adopting Kubernetes to modernize their workloads for a more agile way to iterate and deliver time-to-market services or product features to their customers. As the number of clusters to be managed increases, customers struggle with different deployment mechanisms and application programming […]

Introduction Securely adopting Kubernetes includes preventing unwanted changes to clusters. Unwanted changes can disrupt cluster operations and even compromise cluster integrity. Introducing pods that lack correct security configurations is an example of an unwanted cluster change. To control pod security, Kubernetes provided Pod Security Policy (PSP) resources. PSPs specify a set of security settings that […]

This post was co-written by Shimon Tolts, CEO and Co-Founder, Datree. Introduction On July of 2020, we introduced the beta version of cdk8s+, a high-level intent driven application programming interface (API) designed to simplify Kubernetes resource configuration. Since its release, we’ve been working on adding capabilities and collecting feedback from our customers. Today, we’re happy […]

Introduction Bottlerocket is a security focused operating system (OS) image that provides out-of-the-box security options to protect host or worker nodes. While Bottlerocket is useful, the security of the pods and the containers is still the responsibility of the application developer or provider. KubeArmor, a CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) sandbox project, is a runtime […]

Introduction As part of AWS re:Invent 2020, the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Team announced the release of Amazon EKS add-ons. The addition of add-ons was driven by customer feedback and a desire to simplify the management of commonly used operational software. With add-ons, you can configure, deploy, and update operational software, which provides […]

Introduction Many customers use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to host their mission-critical applications. As a best practice, we ask our customers to spread their applications across multiple distinct availability zones (AZ). Because “everything fails all the time,” Werner Vogel, CTO, Amazon To achieve high availability, customers deploy Amazon EKS worker nodes (Amazon EC2 […]

Click here for the full schedule of AWS events at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Amazon Web Services (AWS) is headed to Detroit, Michigan for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022. We are thrilled to connect with the Open Source community in person to share what we’ve been working on, and learn about how […]

Introduction Since its release, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) has made it easier to run Kubernetes and container applications reliably at scale. With Amazon EKS on AWS Outposts, you can simplify application delivery onto on-premises AWS Outposts infrastructure by using the same application programming interfaces (APIs), console, and tools you use to run Amazon […]

This post was written in collaboration with Matthew Overstreet from DataStax. Introduction With the current widespread adoption of Kubernetes as the target compute platform, many AWS customers and partners consider it the standard for both stateless and stateful workloads. Cloud scale is one of the values that AWS brings to the customers and combining this […]