AWS

Understanding Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)

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Understanding Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes or EKS provides a Managed Kubernetes Service. Amazon does the undifferentiated heavy lifting, such as provisioning the cluster, performing upgrades and patching. Although it is compatible with existing plugins and tooling, EKS is not a proprietary AWS fork of Kubernetes in any way. This...

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AWS

Autoscaling an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster

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Autoscaling an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster

In this article we are going to consider the two most common methods for Autoscaling in EKS cluster: Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)Cluster Autoscaler (CA)The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler or HPA is a Kubernetes component that automatically scales your service based on metrics such as CPU utilization or others, as...

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AWS

How to attach an AWS EBS storage volume to your Docker container

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How to attach an AWS EBS storage volume to your Docker container

In an ideal world, Docker containers should be ephemeral without any reliance on external storage. In the microservice world, this is achievable when services are connecting to external databases, queues, and other services. Sometimes though, we need persistent storage, when we're running services such as Jenkins, Prometheus, or Postgres. Fortunately,...

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AWS

Part1: Kubernetes AWS Resource Access: kube2Iam

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Part1: Kubernetes AWS Resource Access: kube2Iam

IntroductionOne of the major benefits of using containers for application, and Kubernetes for their orchestration, is that you can get the most out of the underlying virtual machines. This however, gives rise to a unique problem of managing access for PODs to various AWS services. For example: A Kubernetes node...

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Docker

Serverless Asterisk with Docker and AWS Fargate

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Serverless Asterisk with Docker and AWS Fargate

Asterisk is a powerful freebase PBX providing VoIP and Telephony solutions, catering to the needs of both Enterprise and Stand-Alone levels. In the article below, we would demonstrate the creation of a highly-scalable Asterisk cloud server through Fargate task, which would require minimal maintenance and administration. Prerequisite Docker installed on...

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AWS

Deploy your C++ Lambda with Docker

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Deploy your C++ Lambda with Docker

In this article we will explore How you can use your C++ Runtime with Lambda Function. AWS Lambda allows us to use our app in a serverless architecture. As an addition to all the available runtimes in AWS Lambda, AWS announced Custom Runtimes at AWS Re:Invent 2018 where they...

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