This edition features a couple of storage related announcements. The EFS CSI driver is now available as a managed addon. For those who struggled to install the driver manually, this should make installing and upgrading the CSI driver a lot simpler from hereon. The second announcement is about Fargate’s support for larger ephemeral volumes; as much as 200GB!
The other big announcement is about a change in the pricing for public IPv4 address. Starting on 2/24, AWS will start charging .005 for public IPv4 addresses. Part of the reason for this change is that IPv4 addresses are scare resources nowadays. Since this scarcity can be alleviated by moving to IPv6 we’ve included a few links to IPv6 content to help prepare for the inevitable transition to v6.
New AWS services and features
- Amazon EKS makes it easier to configure and use Amazon EFS for persistent shared file storage
- This capability eliminates the need to manually install and configure the EFS CSI driver using command line tools such as kubectl or helm, and makes it easy to keep your cluster up-to-date with the latest version of this driver
- Announcing additional Ephemeral Storage for EKS Fargate
- Customers can now configure the size of ephemeral storage for their workloads up to a maximum of 175 GiB
- AWS Fargate adds support for larger ephemeral volumes
- Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan)
- AWS Batch now supports price capacity optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances
- AWS Batch on AWS Fargate now supports Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in Console
AWS blogs
- New – AWS Public IPv4 Address Charge + Public IP Insights
- Effective February 1, 2024 there will be a charge of $0.005 per IP per hour for all public IPv4 addresses, whether attached to a service or not.
- AWS announces Public IP Insights, a new feature of VPC IP Address Manager
- AWS Begins Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses - Last Week in AWS
- Get started with IPv6 on AWS - Resources & Content
- Automating custom networking to solve IPv4 exhaustion in Amazon EKS
- This post show how to use Amazon CDK EKS Blueprints and the VPC CNI Amazon EKS Blueprints Pattern to provision and manage Amazon EKS clusters with VPC CNI add-on configured to use custom networking out-of-the-box
- How H2O.ai optimized and secured their AI/ML infrastructure with Karpenter and Bottlerocket
- This post demonstrates how H20.ai used Karpenter and Bottlerocket to run containers in EKS clusters. This combined functionality, along with prefetching container images, helped H20.ai improve the compute provisioning and configuration time for our ML workloads by 100-fold
- Bolstering Security & Automating Management of Target Australia’s EKS clusters
- Scaling Kubernetes with Karpenter: Advanced Scheduling with Pod Affinity and volume topology awareness
- This post delves into Karpenter’s support for
podAffinity,podAntiAffinity, and volume topology awareness and explains the use cases that they’re best suited for.
- This post delves into Karpenter’s support for
Community news
- Simplifying Kubernetes Native Testing with TestKube
- Sunrise: Zalando’s developer platform based on BackstageMenu
- Kubernetes Audit Logs: The Unsung Hero of the Kube-verse
- The State of Kubernetes Security in 2023
- Kubeflow brings MLOps to the CNCF Incubator
- Tetrates Istio-based Service Express service mesh is now generally available
- Using Helm Dashboard and Intents-Based Access Control for Pain-Free Network Segmentation
- Kubiya.ai - ChatGPT for DevOps