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Tag: VPC CNI

Ensuring fair bandwidth allocation for HAQM EKS Workloads

Independent Service Vendor (ISV) users often offer their end-user solutions hosted on a multi-tenant architecture to reduce cost and operational management. However, this approach can lead Kubernetes clusters to resource exhaustion or network starvation issues that impact neighboring workloads. By default, Kubernetes provides capabilities to enforce resource availability such as CPU and memory to prevent […]

Rippling’s journey migrating to the new VPC CNI Network Policy Engine

This post was coauthored by Venkatesh Nannan, Sr. Engineering Manager at Rippling Introduction Rippling is a workforce management system that eliminates the friction of running a business, combining HR, IT, and Finance apps on a unified data platform. Rippling’s mission is to free up intelligent people to work on hard problems. Existing Stack Rippling uses […]

HAQM VPC CNI now supports Kubernetes Network Policies

Introduction Today, we’re excited to announce the native support for enforcing Kubernetes network policies with HAQM VPC Container Networking Interface (CNI) Plugin. You can now use HAQM VPC CNI to implement both pod networking and network policies to secure the traffic in your Kubernetes clusters. Native support for network policies has been one of the […]

Addressing IPv4 address exhaustion in HAQM EKS clusters using private NAT gateways

Addressing IPv4 address exhaustion in HAQM EKS clusters using private NAT gateways

Introduction The HAQM VPC Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin creates many advantages for pod networking when deployed on an HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) cluster. First, it lets us reuse proven, battle-tested HAQM Virtual Private Cloud (HAQM VPC) networking and security best practices for building Kubernetes clusters on AWS. This allows us to use […]