Reading Time: 2 minutes Economic uncertainty is increasing the pressure to reduce cloud spend, and companies are looking for ways to optimize their resource management. As the industry shifts towards Kubernetes, EKS is one of the biggest expenses — and thus a low-hanging fruit for optimization. Kubernetes configurations are often set once and not reassessed for months or until…

Reading Time: 6 minutes nOps recently launched the Episode 3 of nCast in collaboration with AWS Partner Solution Architects – Young Seok Jeong and Andrew Park from the Container Services Team. The episode focussed at providing and exploring valuable insights on Karpenter, Amazon’s latest EKS node management solution. James Wilson, VP of Engineering & Product Development Leader at nOps…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Kubernetes has now become the standard for modern cloud infrastructure due to its high availability, scalability, stability, and open-source nature. But even though the benefits of Kubernetes are as clear as day, there is no denying that Kubernetes can be a complex system to maintain if you haven’t set up the right policies and guidelines…

Reading Time: 5 minutes With AWS, many different pricing models are available that allow you to pay for resources in the most cost-effective ways possible while ensuring your business needs are met. In many cases, you may get exactly the same server, but its pricing will vary according to the different commitment levels, either from you or AWS.  Spot…

Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the significant advantages of running workloads on the cloud, and AWS in particular, is the ability to elastically scale workloads up and down to pay for what you use. When it comes time to pay for that EC2 compute you use in AWS, there are numerous ways to structure your bill.  On-demand instances…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Scalability is one of the core features of Kubernetes. Automating the scaling process simplifies overall resource management which would have otherwise taken intensive manual efforts to achieve. Autoscaling allows users to automatically adjust the number of resources according to the changing demands while ensuring optimized resource allocation and improved cluster efficiency. In this article, we…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Imagine a world where Kubernetes understands exactly what your application needs. It’s like having a personal assistant that automatically selects the most cost-effective instance types for your app on AWS, reducing your EKS costs. That’s where Karpenter comes in! Karpenter is a high-performance, flexible, open-source Kubernetes cluster autoscaler designed for AWS. AWS Karpenter, an open-source…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Scaling up Kubernetes clusters can be extremely challenging since it involves managing multiple components like networking, storage, worker nodes, and control planes all at once. Maintaining high throughput, low latency, and optimal performance when scaling Kubernetes clusters requires efficient network configurations, load balancing, and the right resource allocation. More importantly, when you scale up clusters…

Reading Time: 3 minutes When it comes to resource management and autoscaling in Kubernetes, users have traditionally gone with Cluster Autoscaler, although users on AWS are now increasingly looking at Karpenter. Both platforms set out to accomplish the same end result through widely different approaches to the problem, with Karpenter offering new exciting capabilities and features. This is why…