Containers

Tag: CNI

Automating custom networking to solve IPv4 exhaustion in HAQM EKS

Introduction When HAQM VPC Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin assigns IPv4 addresses to Pods, it allocates them from the VPC CIDR range assigned to the cluster. While it makes Pods first-class citizens within the VPC network, it often leads to exhaustion of the limited number of IPv4 addresses available in the VPCs. The long term […]

Turbocharging EKS networking with Bottlerocket, Calico, and eBPF

This post is co-authored by Alex Pollitt, Co-founder and CTO at Tigera, Inc. Recently HAQM announced support for Bottlerocket on HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS). Bottlerocket is an open source Linux distribution built by HAQM to run containers focused on security, operations, and manageability at scale. You can learn more about Bottlerocket in this […]