Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane: What It Is and When You Need It
Explaining the EKS Provisioned Control Plane option, when it makes sense to use it, and when the standard control plane is enough. Read on CloudKeeper →
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EKS Cost Optimization Program
Led cost optimization engagements across 50+ customer environments at CloudKeeper. Worked on right-sizing pods, tuning VPA/HPA configurations, implementing Karpenter with optimal bin-packing, and moving eligible workloads to spot instances. Key results: Reduced one customer’s monthly bill by $20K on a $111K/month account (18% savings) Saved a logistics platform $15K+/month through EKS and Karpenter optimization Standardized cost review questionnaires and savings tracking across the team Tools: EKS, Karpenter, VPA, HPA, KEDA, Helm, Terraform ...
Maximizing Amazon EKS Pod Density: Why Karpenter Ignores AWS's Default Limits
How Karpenter handles pod density differently from AWS defaults, and what that means for your cluster capacity planning. Read on CloudKeeper →
One-Click Customer Deployment System
At MicroTechnologies, built a reusable infrastructure deployment system using multi-module Terraform and CI/CD pipelines. New customer projects could be onboarded with a standardized setup that included networking, compute, container orchestration, monitoring, and security. What it covered: Multi-environment Terraform modules (dev, staging, production) ECS/EKS cluster setup with proper IAM, networking, and security groups Monitoring stack (Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic) CI/CD pipeline templates for GitHub Actions and Jenkins Tools: Terraform, Terragrunt, AWS, GitHub Actions, Jenkins ...