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Provision a Kubernetes Cluster in AWS. Configure the AWS CLI to provide IAM credentials to Terraform, clone an example repository, and deploy the cluster. Configure kubectl and the Kubernetes dashboard. Finally destroy the cluster.

Create a variable set for your AWS IAM credentials that you can reuse across workspaces. Apply the variable set to a workspace.

To meet user demand, dynamic HTTP-based applications require constant scaling of Kubernetes pods. For applications exposed through Kubernetes ingress objects, the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) distributes incoming traffic automatically across the newly scaled replicas. When Kubernetes applications scale down due to a decline in demand, certain situations will result in brief interruptions for end […]

Packer configuration for building a custom EKS AMI - awslabs/amazon-eks-ami

Learn about the AWS introduced Graviton3 processor-backed Amazon EC2 C7g instances that delivers up to 25% higher performance 🚀 at a lower cost 💸.

This post describes our migration journey of Spark from EMR on EC2 to EMR on EKS.

A common challenge architects face when designing a Kubernetes solution on AWS is how to grant containerized workload permissions to access an AWS service or resource. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) provides fine-grained access control where you can specify who can access which AWS service or resources, ensuring the principle of least privilege. The challenge […]

Networking plugin repository for pod networking in Kubernetes using Elastic Network Interfaces on AWS - amazon-vpc-cni-k8s/README.md at master · aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s

This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps that I took to serve 1.2 million JSON 'API' requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance.