In this issue we’ll touch on Karpenter 0.9.0, EKS add-ons for OpenTelemetry, bootstrapping clusters with EKS Blueprints, an upcoming Twitter space, and more.

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New service announcements and features

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announces Karpenter v0.9.0 with support for Pod Affinity

EKS add-ons support for the OpenTelemetry Operator is now generally available

ACK Controllers for Amazon EKS, Amazon ECR, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, AWS Application Autoscaling and AWS API Gateway v2 now generally available

New and notable blogs

How to run a Multi-AZ stateful application on EKS with AWS FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Bootstrapping clusters with EKS Blueprints

Shipping logs to third-parties with Kinesis Data Firehose and Fluent Bit for Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate

Containers from the Couch

Migrate Kubernetes cluster autoscaler to Karpenter (demo)

Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler vs Vertical Pod Autoscaler (short)

Kubernetes Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) (short)

Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) (short)

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Ecosystem News

Twitter Space: Amazon EKS OP1 feedback

Istio has applied to become a CNCF project

v3.5 data inconsistency postmortem

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