Tag: HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS)

As of April 1, 2024, Kubernetes version 1.21 and 1.22 are also covered under extended support. To learn more, please see our announcement. Introduction On October 4, 2023, HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) announced the public preview of extended support for Kubernetes versions, which gives you an additional 12 months of support for Kubernetes […]

Introduction At AWS, we offer security from the get-go by providing you the ability to use Security Groups and Security Group rules to configure the fine-grained control over the traffic that flows to and from AWS resources such as HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances, AWS Databases, Application Load Balancers, and Containers. On August […]

Today we’re thrilled to celebrate the 5th anniversary of HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS), and it’s an opportune moment to reflect on our journey so far. Since its launch in 2018, HAQM EKS has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide in running resilient, secure, and scalable container-based applications. HAQM EKS, using upstream Kubernetes, […]

Introduction The HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) team is pleased to announce support for Kubernetes version 1.27 for HAQM EKS and HAQM EKS Distro. HAQM EKS Anywhere (release 0.16.0) also supports Kubernetes 1.27. The theme for this version was chosen to recognize the fact that the release was pretty chill. Hence, the fitting release […]

Introduction .NET Developers commonly design Windows-based applications with Active Directory (AD) integration running on domain-joined servers to facilitate authentication and authorization between services and users. Since containers cannot be domain-joined, running these applications in a Windows-based containers required configuring group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA), domain-joined Kubernetes Windows nodes, webhooks and cluster roles to enable Windows […]

Introduction The release of Kubernetes 1.25 was when it was first announced that the Kubernetes project would be updating its official container image registry endpoint from k8s.gcr.io to the community owned registry, registry.k8s.io. The goal was to eventually sunset the old registry over time. However, as highlighted on the official Kubernetes website, this changeover has […]

Introduction What is Kubernetes? I have been working on this technology since the beginning and after 8 years, I’m still having a problem defining what it is. Some people define Kubernetes as a container orchestrator but does that definition capture the essence of Kubernetes? I don’t think so. In this post, I’d like to explore […]

Introduction Karpenter was built to solve issues pertaining to optimal node selection in Kubernetes. Karpenter’s what-you-need-when-you-need-it model simplifies the process of managing compute resources in Kubernetes by adding compute capacity to your cluster based on a pod’s requirements. With the recent release of workload consolidation, Karpenter can now be enabled to continuously monitor and optimize […]

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 […]

This blog post was co-written by Jim Bugwadia, Co-founder and CEO, Nirmata. This post is a follow-up to our previous blog, Implementing Pod Security Standards in HAQM EKS. Introduction Pods are the fundamental unit of execution in Kubernetes. In this post, we’ll look at how Kyverno can be used to manage pod security for HAQM […]