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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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 →
Why Your Amazon EKS Pods Are Stuck Pending Despite Available IPs
Diagnosing the common scenario where EKS pods stay in Pending state even when the VPC has available IP addresses. Covers ENI limits, prefix delegation, and subnet sizing. Read on CloudKeeper →
EKS Upgrade Tooling and Documentation
EKS upgrades across multiple Kubernetes versions are complex, especially in production environments with custom networking, service meshes, and stateful workloads. Built comprehensive upgrade tooling and documentation that was used across multiple customer engagements. What I built: Step-by-step upgrade scripts with pre-flight checks Rollback procedures for each upgrade stage Documentation covering add-on compatibility, API deprecations, and breaking changes Deep dives into Kubernetes 1.34 and 1.35 feature changes Tools: EKS, Kubernetes, Bash, Terraform ...
How We Helped a Production-Scale Team Reduce EKS Costs and Boost Efficiency
A case study on reducing EKS costs for a production workload through right-sizing, bin-packing improvements, and spot instance adoption. Read on CloudKeeper →
How a Major Amazon EKS Upgrade Solved Customer's Production Nightmares
Walking through a complex EKS upgrade that resolved persistent production stability issues for a customer running critical workloads. Read on CloudKeeper →
Supercar E-Auction Platform
Took a monolithic PHP-based supercar auction platform and broke it into containerized services running on EKS. The platform included Moodle for training modules and Nginx as the web layer. What I did: Containerized 40+ microservices from bare-metal/VM setup Deployed on EKS with proper scaling, health checks, and resource limits Set up CI/CD pipeline for automated builds and deployments Configured monitoring and alerting Tools: EKS, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Nginx, PHP, Moodle ...