After our 3 week hiatus and a restful Thankgiving holiday, we’re glad to be back, at least until the next round of holidays. This week’s newsletter is longer than normal because it includes updates that have occurred since our last edition was published. Enjoy!
- AWS Nitro Enclaves now supports Amazon EKS and Kubernetes
- AWS Marketplace for containers now supports direct deployment to EKS clusters
- Adds the ability to deploy operational software from marketplace directly to EKS clusters
- Provides lifecycle management for 3rd party addons like Nirmata’s Kyverno Enterprise, Tetrate’s Istio offering, Kubecost, among others.
- Addons makes use of Server Side Apply which was featured in 2 recent posts on the Kubernetes blog:
- Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for configuring Spark properties within EMR Studio Jupyter Notebooks
- Adds support for configuring Spark properties within EMR Studio Jupyter Notebook sessions for interactive Spark workloads
- Users can customize their Spark settings, such as driver and executor CPU/memory, number of executors, and package dependencies, within a notebook session.
- AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is now integrated with CloudHedge OmniDeq to speed container modernization
- Customers can use Migration Hub Refactor Spaces with CloudHedge OmniDeq to replatform applications into containers and deploy them directly into refactoring environments
- Refactor Spaces automates the creation of application refactor environments so that customers do not need to build the AWS infrastructure, multi-account networking, and routing for modernization. CloudHedge OmniDeq is a low/no code platform that automates assessment of legacy application architectures and topology, securely containerizes legacy applications, and deploys them onto managed container services like EKS.
- AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) controller for Amazon EMR on EKS is now generally available
- AWS announces centralized logging support for Windows containers on Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS
- A new image for AWS Fluent Bit is available for Windows Server on Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS, allowing logs from Windows machines to be forwarded to various AWS and third-party destinations such as Amazon CloudWatch, S3, Kineses Firehose, Datadog, and Splunk
- Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.24
- Notable changes include: the removal of dockershim, the addition of topology aware hints, and support for PSS/PSA.
- General availability of Project Sleek (marketplace integration)
- Preview of Lattice
- General availability of Project Washington (Finch)