Posts in 2023

  • EKS News 059

    Monday, August 14, 2023 in Archives

    In this week’s newsletter we feature an episode of Containers from the Couch on API Priority and Fairness (APF) . APF is a way to give priority to certain API calls over other, lower priority, calls. The idea is to prevent the Kubernetes API server …

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  • EKS News 058

    Monday, August 07, 2023 in Archives

    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 …

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  • EKS News 057

    Tuesday, August 01, 2023 in Archives

    The newsletter editorial staff was on a summer hiatus for the last few weeks, but now, as the Gene Autry sang long ago, [we’re] “back in the saddle again .” In this latest edition, we’re tried to capture all of the major updates that have occurred …

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  • EKS News 056

    Friday, June 09, 2023 in Archives

    Happy birthday EKS! It was 5 years ago that EKS was first launched. Since then it has seen tremendous growth and has added a lot of new capabilities with lots more on the way. This week we also celebrate the launch of container image signing and …

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  • EKS News 055

    Wednesday, May 31, 2023 in Archives

    We hope those of you in the United States got to enjoy the long Memorial Day weekend. The big news from last week is the release of EKS 1.27! If you having been meaning to upgrade your cluster but aren’t sure where to begin, head on over to …

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  • EKS News 054

    Tuesday, May 23, 2023 in Archives

    A subscriber sent me an email saying that last week’s newsletter should have been our DNS edition, #53. Using that logic, this should be our XNS (#54) edition (or MuSka52 trojan if you’re a black hat). It saddens me to share that AWS has decided to …

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  • EKS News 053

    Monday, May 15, 2023 in Archives

    A few weeks have past since we published our last newsletter. Since then, we’ve released a handful of new features, including a new open-source way to do identity and access management called Cedar. This edition also features a couple of …

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  • EKS News 052

    Tuesday, April 25, 2023 in Archives

    For those of you who were able to attend KubeCon EU or AWS Container Day, we hope you had a fruitful time while you were there. This week we feature a couple of blogs about different use cases for service meshes: intelligent routing and service …

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  • EKS News 051

    Monday, April 17, 2023 in Archives

    This week in Kubecon EU. If you happen to be going, stop by the AWS booth and say “hello”. The big news this week was the release of EKS v1.26 which also happened to coincide with Kubernetes v1.27. Amazon will be hosting Container Day on …

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  • EKS News 050

    Monday, April 10, 2023 in Archives

    Welcome to the 50th edition of the EKS newsletter! Thank you for being a subscriber. Our charter from the very beginning has been to provide our readers with the latest news and announcements about Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, and the cloud native …

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