• kubectl-eks: Managing Amazon EKS Clusters

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    kubectl plugin custom command AWS EKS Kubernetes

    Managing Kubernetes clusters on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) can be challenging, especially when dealing with multiple clusters across different regions and accounts. The kubectl-eks plugin simplifies this process by providing convenient commands to list, inspect, and switch between EKS clusters.

    29/01/2025

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  • Setup EKS connector

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    AWS EKS Kubernetes ROSA OpenShift

    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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    EKS AWS ENI available IPs subnet

    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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    AWS EKS Karpenter Kubernetes

    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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