What’s New?
Cloud Adoption Frameworks
You may not be aware, but the major cloud providers publish "Cloud Adoption Frameworks". These are resources that provide a curated list of practices and reference material to aid in developing, planning and executing your cloud adoption journey.
Now, they are not just marketing talk mixed with engineering speak. Looking beyond the specific vendor brand identity, there is valuable insight into your organization's "Maturity", providing data that can be used to tremendously impact your business in terms of agility and cost.
So what should you do with all this information? Develop your own - using these tools to help build your strategy and provide a unified approach across your business with clear deliverables and measurable outcomes.
We invite you to dive deeper by following the links below and engaging us to support your adoption.
Tainted Node Groups
EKS offers the ability to create managed node groups of varying configurations. This makes it possible to extend the capabilities of your cluster while still being able to manage the extra resources.
With Amazon EKS managed node groups, you don’t need to separately provision or register the Amazon EC2 instances that provide compute capacity to run your Kubernetes applications.
At stack.io, our newest Terraform EKS module release includes the ability to "taint" these managed node groups allowing them to allow, evict and manage pods based on their respective "tolerations".
Follow this link to learn more.
Amazon EKS Multus Support
EKS now supports the Multus Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin. Multus is an open source CNI plugin for Kubernetes that enables attaching multiple network interfaces to pods for advanced networking configurations.
Multus acts as a meta plugin, invoking additional CNI plugins that can operate on multiple network interfaces attached to pods. Cases that commonly require pods with multiple interfaces include running 5G and streaming networks on Kubernetes.
EKS provides a highly available managed Kubernetes service that is available in all global AWS regions, and supported in edge locations like AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts, with Multus advanced networking across these environments is enabled to run containerized network functions that deliver high quality content to end users.
Learn more about using Multus with EKS here.
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