Containers
Category: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Rafay accelerates SonicWall’s adoption of containers and Amazon EKS
This post was contributed by Carmen Puccio, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS, and Haseeb Budhani, Co-Founder and CEO, Rafay Systems September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Background SonicWall, a storied technology company, delivers a broad suite of security products to protect enterprises and small and medium businesses […]
Kubernetes RBAC and IAM Integration in Amazon EKS using a Java-based Kubernetes Operator
Introduction A Kubernetes native application is one that is deployed on a Kubernetes cluster and managed both using Kubernetes APIs as well as client-side tools such as kubectl. A Kubernetes Operator is an abstraction for deploying non-trivial Kubernetes applications such as an etcd database cluster or a Prometheus monitoring/alerting system. It provides a mechanism to […]
Manage Amazon EKS with Okta SSO
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes. Okta is an API service that allows developers to create, edit, and securely store user accounts and user account data and connect them with one or multiple applications. Okta helps you provide access to the AWS Management […]
Introducing server-side encryption of ephemeral storage using AWS Fargate-managed keys in AWS Fargate platform version 1.4
This post was contributed by Yuling Zhou, Eduardo Lopez Biagi, and Paavan Mistry. Today, we introduced server-side encryption of ephemeral storage in AWS Fargate platform version 1.4. The ephemeral task storage is automatically encrypted with industry-standard AES-256 encryption algorithm using AWS Fargate-managed keys for the updated platform version. This feature requires no additional configuration from […]
Streaming logs from Amazon EKS Windows pods to Amazon CloudWatch Logs using Fluentd
Containers are a method of operating system virtualization that allow you to run an application and its dependencies in resource-isolated processes. Containers allow you to easily package an application’s code, configurations, and dependencies into easy-to-use building blocks that deliver environmental consistency, operational efficiency, developer productivity, and version control. Using Windows containers allows you to get […]
Using Amazon FSx for Windows File Server on EKS Windows Containers
This blog post is deprecated and the solution is no longer valid. Please refer to the new solution that uses CSI Driver posted in the following blog post: Using SMB CSI Driver on Amazon EKS Windows nodes. Recently, we published a blog post on using Amazon FSx for Windows File Server as persistent storage for […]
Building serverless admission webhooks for Kubernetes with AWS SAM
Authors: Simon Woldemichael, Associate Solutions Architect, WWPS Solution Architecture Josh Jiang, Associate Cloud Developer, Professional Services Shared Delivery Teams Learning Level: 300 Controlling resource deployments in your Kubernetes cluster can become a difficult challenge. For instance, pushing changes to a production environment can run the risk of installing an incompatible package or vulnerable dependency that […]
Improved Amazon EKS console for cluster creation and management
We recently announced an updated Amazon EKS console experience to create clusters, management, and supporting documentation. In this blog post, we dive into the updates we have made and how they aim to help our customers and cluster administrators when creating clusters using the Amazon EKS console. 1. Multi-step cluster create flow EKS now includes […]
Introducing CDK for Kubernetes
At AWS, we’ve seen customers rapidly adopt Kubernetes to deploy applications globally, train machine learning models at scale, and standardize how they deliver innovation across data centers and the cloud. Using Kubernetes, customers are building automated tooling to replace manual processes, implementing operational pipelines for every piece of their infrastructure, and empowering development teams with […]
Using Prometheus Metrics in Amazon CloudWatch
Imaya Kumar Jagannathan, Justin Gu, Marc Chéné, and Michael Hausenblas Update 2020-09-08: The feature described in this post is now in GA, see details in the Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics from Container environments What’s New item. Earlier this week we announced the public beta support for monitoring Prometheus metrics in CloudWatch Container Insights. […]