Author: Wend Tarpaga, Cloud Engineer Introduction Kubernetes, often abbreviated as k8s, has emerged as the de facto system for orchestrating containerized applications. Within this ecosystem, the concepts of "pods" and "nodes" are fundamental to understanding how Kubernetes manages and schedules applications. A pod is the smallest deployable unit created and managed by Kubernetes, while a [...]
Author: Cyprian Moye, Cloud Engineer Introduction Unmatched agility and efficiency in managing workloads can be achieved by integrating HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) with Kubernetes deployments to ensure seamless performance. HPA can automatically adjust workload resources such as Deployments or StatefulSets, aligning application scaling with demand fluctuations without manual intervention. HPA offers the flexibility to scale resources up [...]
Contributors Travis Langhals, Principal Architect and Migration Practice Lead Stephen Sadowski, Head of Cloud Engineering and DevOps/Modernization Practice Lead Kubernetes has become the most popular container orchestration platform for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. AWS’s distribution, Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), is their managed Kubernetes service offering. In this blog post, we will compare [...]