Containers

Category: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Connecting Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Clusters to Amazon EKS

Customers running Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters can now use the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to visualize GKE cluster resources. This post describes how to use Amazon EKS Connector to connect a GKE cluster to the Amazon EKS console. The EKS console provides a single pane of glass to visualize all your Kubernetes […]

Three architectural options for routing traffic to multiple Amazon EKS clusters

Onfido’s Journey to a Multi-Cluster Amazon EKS Architecture

This blog was coauthored by Eugene Malihins, Senior DevOps Engineer at Onfido, and Olly Pomeroy, Containers Specialist SA at Amazon Web Services Who is Onfido? Onfido is setting the new standard for digital access. The company digitally proves a user’s real identity using artificial intelligence (AI) by verifying a photo ID and comparing it to […]

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Backup and restore your Amazon EKS cluster resources using Velero

September 9th, 2023: This post was originally published December 1, 2021. We’ve updated the walkthrough instructions of this blog post to support the latest EKS versions and changes to the Velero Helm chart. Companies worldwide are adopting containers to encapsulate their microservices, and many of them choose Kubernetes for automating deployment, scaling, and managing their […]

re:Invent 2021: AWS Containers track

In 2021, re:Invent offers an in-person and virtual conference experience for our attendees. The in-person part of the event will be held in Las Vegas from November 29, 2021 – December 3, 2021. Attendees for the virtual event can register for free and will have access to a subset of the sessions over the virtual […]

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Migrating Amazon EKS clusters from gp2 to gp3 EBS volumes

Kubernetes (sometimes referred to as K8s) is an open-source container orchestration engine and a fast-growing project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). K8s has a massive adoption on premises and in the cloud for running stateless and stateful containerized workloads. Stateful workloads require persistent storage. To support on-premises and cloud-provider-related infrastructure like storage […]

Introducing AWS App Mesh Metrics Extension

NOTICE: October 04, 2024 – This post no longer reflects the best guidance for configuring a service mesh with Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS, and its examples no longer work as shown. For workloads running on Amazon ECS, please refer to newer content on Amazon ECS Service Connect, and for workloads running on Amazon EKS, […]

Leveraging Amazon EKS managed node group with placement group for low latency critical applications

Our customers have been asking how to host their low-latency applications with high throughput such as stock-trading applications and financial market workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), particularly with the EKS managed node group offering. In this blog post, we introduce the concept of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) placement groups, and […]

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Deploying Containerized Application on AWS Outposts with Amazon EKS

AWS Outposts delivers AWS-designed infrastructure, services, APIs and tool to customer on-premises locations. Primary use-cases are applications that require low latency, local data processing or need to meet data residency requirements. Outpost connects back to a home Region the customer selects through a connection called the Service Link. It is operated, monitored, and managed by […]

Amazon EKS adds native support for Bottlerocket in Managed Node Groups

Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS) announces native support for Bottlerocket in managed node groups. Bottlerocket is a Linux-based open-source operating system that is purpose-built by Amazon. It focuses on security and maintainability, and provides a reliable, consistent, and safe platform for container-based workloads. Amazon EKS managed node groups with Bottlerocket support enables you […]

Automate AWS App2Container workflow using Ansible

AWS App2Container is a command-line tool that helps to modernize legacy applications by moving them to run in containers managed by Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Containerization helps with application resource utilization and agility. You can use AWS App2Container for Java (Linux) or ASP.NET (Windows) applications that […]