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Setup EKS connector
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With the EKS connector you are going to be able to connect any Kubernetes cluster to the AWS EKS console to visualize it's status, configuration, nodes and workloads but not much else. Let's take a look what's needed:
12/09/2022
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AWS EKS: reduce the number of reserved IPs
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If you are trying to run a EKS cluster on a small subnet you might run out of IPs sooner that you might think. Every time it has to attach or detach IPs an API call needs to be made, so to avoid getting API calls throttled it pre-reserves some
16/05/2022
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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
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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
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Using AWS Secrets Manager secrets and Systems Manager parameters in Kubernetes with KES
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By using the Kubernetes External Secrets we can use external secret management systems, like AWS Secrets Manager or Vault, to securely add secrets in Kubernetes.
This is achieved by by using the ExternalSecret object which declares how to fetch the secret data, while the KES controller converts the ExternalSecrets to Secrets. The conversion is completely transparent to Pods that can access Secrets normally.
29/11/2021
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