We have an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster with Karpenter which is responsible for EC2 auto-scaling, see AWS: Getting started with Karpenter for autoscaling in EKS, and its installation with Helm. In general, there are no problems with it so far, but in any case we need to monitor it. For its monitoring, Karpenter provides… 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 »
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 »