Containers

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EKS Persistent Volumes for Instance Store

The Kubernetes project is made up of a number of special interest groups (SIGs) that focus on a particular part of the Kubernetes ecosystem. The Storage SIG is focused on different types of storage (block and file) and ensuring that storage is available to containers when they are scheduled. One of the subprojects of the Storage […]

Continuous Delivery of HAQM EKS Clusters Using AWS CDK and CDK Pipelines

This blog is no longer up to date and we recommend reviewing the HAQM EKS Blueprints for CDK Pipeline SDK module which makes it easier to create infrastructure Continuous Delivery pipelines via AWS CodePipeline. Customers are looking for ways to automate the deployment of their HAQM EKS clusters across different versions, environments, accounts, and Regions. […]

Cloud Native CI/CD with Tekton and ArgoCD on AWS

Introduction With the ongoing popularity and adoption of container orchestrators such as Kubernetes, more and more cloud-native applications are built on top of it. Besides business applications, companies are migrating their infrastructure-related components such as CI/CD systems as well. But are those systems ready for such modern platforms? The answer depends. Clearly, most of the […]

HAQM ECS on AWS Outposts

AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility, in the form of a physical rack connected to the AWS global network. AWS compute, storage, database, and other services run locally on Outposts, and you can […]

GitOps model for provisioning and bootstrapping HAQM EKS clusters using Crossplane and Flux

In an earlier blog (Part 1 of the series), I discussed the adoption of the GitOps model as an efficient strategy for provisioning cloud provider-specific managed resources, such as, for example, HAQM S3 bucket and HAQM RDS instance, that application workloads depend on. The blog presented the details of implementing a use case where an HAQM […]

Connecting Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Clusters to HAQM EKS

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

Three architectural options for routing traffic to multiple HAQM EKS clusters

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

This blog was coauthored by Eugene Malihins, Senior DevOps Engineer at Onfido, and Olly Pomeroy, Containers Specialist SA at HAQM 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 […]

Getting started with Consul service mesh on HAQM ECS

We recently announced the general availability of HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) service extension for Consul service mesh in AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). This is a new integration that makes it easier for customers to use Consul as a service mesh on HAQM ECS. In this blog post, we show you how […]