Containers
Announcing Karpenter 1.0
Introduction In November 2021, AWS announced the launch of v0.5 of Karpenter, “a new open source Kubernetes cluster auto scaling project.” Originally conceived as a flexible, dynamic, and high-performance alternative to the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler, in the nearly three years since then Karpenter has evolved substantially into a fully featured, Kubernetes native node lifecycle manager. […]
Yleisradio enhances digital services with Amazon EKS and IPv6 Adoption
Yleisradio is a Finnish broadcasting company running most of its online and mobile services – which roughly 2.1 million Finns use every day – on AWS. Like many organizations, they use IP Address Management (IPAM) systems to allocate IP addresses across their AWS environment to make sure routing works, even between AWS and their on-premises […]
Modernize your .NET application using AWS App2Container and AWS Toolkit for .NET
Overview As businesses increasingly embrace cloud computing, many organizations are seeking to migrate their existing .NET applications from on-premises data centers to AWS. However, the transition of these workloads can often be complex and time-consuming. To simplify this process, AWS App2Container(A2C) is a robust command-line tool that assists users in lifting and shifting their on-premises […]
How Getir optimized their Amazon EKS compute using Karpenter
Introduction Getir is the pioneer of ultrafast grocery delivery. Getir was founded in 2015 and revolutionized last-mile delivery with its grocery in-minutes delivery proposition. Today, Getir is a conglomerate incorporating nine verticals under the same brand. Challenge Getir uses Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to host applications on AWS. One of the foremost challenges […]
Cordial’s journey implementing Bottlerocket and Karpenter in Amazon EKS
Overview Cordial is a cross-channel marketing platform that offers tools to fully automate marketing strategies. By automating marketing execution, Cordial liberates technology teams to focus on their core strengths: building and creativity. It empowers technology teams to delegate data access and management to marketers, using Cordial’s robust platform to migrate, transform, and deliver complex data […]
Harnessing Karpenter: Transitioning Kafka to Amazon EKS with AWS solutions
AppsFlyer is a global leader in mobile attribution and marketing analytics. AppsFlyer helps businesses understand the impact and their marketing efforts across every channel and device, through a comprehensive measurement platform and privacy cloud that fosters ecosystem collaboration while preserving customers’ privacy. Within AppsFlyer, data is the core, it gives the ability to expose detailed […]
How Thomson Reuters achieved 5X operational efficiency and 30% cost optimization with Plexus on Amazon EKS
Introduction In today’s dynamic business landscape, operational efficiency and cost optimization are two critical ingredients for a successful business outcome. This is especially true for companies navigating through digital transformation. In 2020, Thomson Reuters (TR), a leader at the intersection of content and technology with trusted data, committed to a cloud-first strategy with Amazon Web […]
Accelerating development feedback loops with AWS CDK hotswap deployments for Amazon ECS
Introduction Culture Amp is an employee experience platform that provides the insights into employee engagement, performance, and development that organizations need to build a category-defining culture. Culture Amp’s mission is to create a better world of work. Developer feedback loops An efficient developer feedback loop is a critical part of an effective development process – […]
Announcing software version consistency for Amazon ECS services
Introduction Container image tags offer a user-friendly way to manage and keep track of different versions of container images. However, they also present a security risk to organizations due to their mutable nature. Without protections in place, a container image tag can be changed in a container image repository to point to a different container […]
Patterns for TargetGroupBinding with AWS Load Balancer Controller
Although provisioning load balancers directly from clusters has been the Kubernetes native method for exposing services, in some cases this creates a provisioning process that doesn’t align with the architecture of the applications. Therefore, there’s a need to have another mechanism for it. For those use-cases, which we describe in this post, provides the functionality […]