MSP

Understanding Amazon EKS Karpenter – Kubernetes Autoscaling Made Simple

Introduction Imagine running a restaurant during lunch hour. Hundreds of customers suddenly arrive, so you quickly bring in more chefs and waiters. When the rush is over, keeping all those extra employees around would be unnecessary and expensive. Applications running on Kubernetes face a similar challenge. At certain times, an application may receive thousands of […]

DevOps

Migrating from EKS Managed Node Groups to Karpenter: A Practical Guide to Smarter Autoscaling

Introduction Running Kubernetes workloads on Amazon EKS is easy, but running them in a cost-effective way is a different challenge. Many organizations start their Amazon EKS clusters with Managed Node Groups based on Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs). This is a reliable approach but often results in over-provisioning of infrastructure as worker nodes are kept running […]

Dhruv Gupta
Dhruv Gupta
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