Setting up the Vertical Pod Autoscaler

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To be able take advantage of using a Cluster Autoscaler (same applies to AWS Karpenter) we need make sure we properly set the resources any scheduled Pod is requesting to Kubernetes:

• If we are requesting too much resources, we will be wasting resources
• If we are requesting too few, the application might end up on a node where it needs to constantly share resources with other Pods

When we are not use the resources a given Pod or container is going to use, we can use the Vertical Pod Autoscaler to help us define them

14/02/2022

Using AWS Karpenter with spot instances

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One of the advantages of using AWS Karpenter is that makes straightforward using spot instances. But how do we handle termination notices coming from AWS?

21/01/2022

Installing and configuring AWS Karpenter

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Starting November 29th 2021, AWS is considering that Karpenter is ready for production: It is a cluster autoscaler alternative intended to improve the efficiency and cost of running workloads on Kubernetes clusters

03/12/2021