We are living in very interesting times. So, let’s talk about Amazon Q, a new system from AWS that should help us, engineers and others, in our work. Amazon itself calls it an “AI-powered assistant,” but for us, as engineers, it’s just a chatbot that we can talk to get help solving some problems or… Read More »
We have two new projects in the Elastic Kubernetes Service (см. AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service: a cluster creation automation, part 1 – CloudFormation), each project lives in its own separate Namespace. In addition, there are two users, developers, who need to be given access to these two Namespaces, but only to Pods in them and… Read More »
Currently, we are able to collect our API Gateway logs from the CloudWatch Logs to Grafana Loki, see. Loki: collecting logs from CloudWatch Logs using Lambda Promtail. But in the process of migrating to Kubernetes, we have Application Load Balancers that can only write logs to S3, and we need to learn how to collect… Read More »
We have a Kubernetes cluster, where WorkerNodes are scaled by Karpenter, and Karpenter has the disruption.consolidationPolicy=WhenUnderutilized parameter for its NodePool, and this means, that Karpenter will try to “consolidate” the placement of pods on Nodes in order to maximize the use of CPU and Memory resources. In general, everything works, but this leads to the… Read More »
Some useful tips on using Liveness and Readiness Probes in Kubernetes – the difference between them, and how to properly configure these checks. To put it very briefly: livenessProbe: is used by Kubernetes to know when to perform a Pod restart readinessProbe: is used by Kubernetes to know when a container is ready to receive… Read More »
So, Karpenter has made another big step towards the release, and in version 0.32 it has moved from Alpha to Beta. Let’s take a quick look at the changes – and they are quite significant – and then upgrade to EKS from Karpneter Terraform module and Karpenter Helm chart. The process of installing Karpenter was… Read More »
So, we have a deployed Kubernetes cluster – see the Terraform: Creating EKS, Part 1 – VPCs, Subnets, and Endpoints series. And we have a GitHub Actions workflow to deploy it – see GitHub Actions: Deploying Dev/Prod environments with Terraform. It’s time to start deploying our backend to Kubernetes. Here we will use GitHub Actions… Read More »
Now that we have Terraform code ready to deploy an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster (see Terraform: Building EKS, part 1 – VPC, Subnets and Endpoints and subsequent parts), it’s time to think about automation, that is, creating pipelines in CI/CD that would create new environments for testing features, or deploy updates to the Dev/Prod… Read More »
The last, fourth part, in which we will install the rest of the controllers and add a couple of useful little things. All the parts: Terraform: building EKS, part 1 – VPC, Subnets and Endpoints Terraform: building EKS, part 2 – an EKS cluster, WorkerNodes, and IAM Terraform: building EKS, part 3 – Karpenter… Read More »
This is the third part of deploying an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster with Terraform, in which we will add Karpenter to our cluster. I’ve decided to post this separately because it’s quite a long post. And in the next and final (hopefully!), the fourth part, we will add the rest – all kinds of… Read More »