We are now welcoming “Electrifying”. Process and considerations while upgrading EKS control-plane to version 1.26. Overview The theme for Kubernetes v1.26 is Electrifying. Kubernetes team has again released a great result and Electrifying result. Team recognises the importance of all these building blocks on which Kubernetes is developed and used, while…

Deploying latest Amazon GuardDuty Support of Amazon EKS Runtime Monitoring. Introduction Amazon GuardDuty has been with us for some time since 2017. It has been capable of analysing tens of billions of events per minute across multiple AWS data sources, such as AWS CloudTrail event logs, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon…

We are now welcoming “Combiner”. Process and considerations while upgrading EKS control-plane to version 1.25. Overview This Kubernetes 1.25 release was chosen to recognize both the diverse components that the project comprises and the individuals who contributed to it. Hence, the fitting release name, “Combiner”. Combiner highlights the collaborative nature of…

Configuring advanced configuration for EKS addons using Terraform and AWS provider. Introduction EKS addons have been available to us for some time and I have talked about them in my previous post here. They evolved over time and we saw in October 2022 that Amazon EKS add-ons had the ability to…

We are now welcoming “Stargazer”. Process and considerations while upgrading EKS control-plane to version 1.24. Overview EKS finally announced support for Kubernetes version 1.24 . I am mega excited for everybody to experience the power of the “Stargazer” release. This time Kubernetes team selected “Stargazer” name for this release to honor…

Solving DNS resolution issue I am writing this story to tell you more about feature which is offered by Amazon EKS. However, it could be very time consuming to actually debug and find out why it may not be working as expected from the start. …

We are now welcoming “The Next Frontier”. Process and considerations while upgrading EKS control-plane to version 1.23. Overview The upstream project theme for this release is “The Next Frontier.” One of the reasons for naming this release was because Kubernetes release lead is a big Star Trek fan. Star Trek V…

We are “Reaching New Peaks”. Process and considerations while upgrading EKS control-plane to version 1.22. Overview Welcome to AWS EKS 1.22 upgrade guide. In version 1.20, Kubernetes deprecated Dockershim, which allowed Kubernetes to use Docker as a container runtime. Docker is still fully functional as it will be removed in 1.23…

Welcome to Containerd and goodbye to Dockerd. Process and considerations while upgrading EKS control-plane to version 1.21 Overview Welcome to AWS EKS 1.21 upgrade guide. In version 1.20, Kubernetes deprecated Dockershim, which allowed Kubernetes to use Docker as a container runtime. Docker is still fully functional, but we should be migrating…