What does Velero add when using managed Kubernetes services?
I understand why Velero can be useful, but I'm not convinced it adds much beyond another system to operate when running a managed Kubernetes cluster such as EKS,…
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What Does Velero Add When Using Managed Kubernetes Services?
I understand why Velero can be useful and fairly straightforward to operate, but I'm not convinced it adds much beyond another system to maintain when running a managed…
How can I safely bring manually created AWS infrastructure under Terraform?
I need to start managing an existing production environment with Terraform without disrupting anything. The environment includes a VPC with roughly 30 subnets, four EKS clusters, Route 53…
Choosing the Right HPA Metric for Java HTTP and Async Services
We're running several Java Spring Boot microservices on EKS, and every service currently uses memory as its Horizontal Pod Autoscaler metric. After looking into JVM behavior, I'm concerned…
What’s the best way to automate Hugging Face model delivery to EFS on EKS?
We have one roughly 3 GB EFS filesystem containing Hugging Face sentence-transformer snapshots in an / directory structure. It is mounted by four workloads across three EKS clusters,…
How should I learn Helm for a production Kubernetes platform?
I have about five years of experience as a DevOps engineer. Earlier in my career, I worked mainly with service-based companies, which gave me a broad foundation in…
Should I run one Loki and Mimir stack per team, or consolidate into a shared platform?
I'm rebuilding self-hosted observability on EKS for six internal teams, each with its own AWS account, logs, and metrics. Our previous ECS deployment used one dedicated observability stack…
What’s the best way to automate Hugging Face model delivery to EFS on EKS?
We have a shared EFS filesystem of roughly 3 GB containing Hugging Face sentence-transformer snapshots in an / directory structure. It is mounted by four workloads across three…
Should I run one Loki and Mimir stack per team, or consolidate them?
I'm rebuilding self-hosted observability on EKS for six internal teams, each with its own AWS account, logs, and metrics. Our previous ECS deployment used one complete stack per…
How Are Database Credentials Managed Securely in Production EKS?
I'm learning Kubernetes while building a three-tier application with a React frontend, Node.js backend, and Amazon RDS. I understand that ConfigMaps are for non-sensitive configuration and Kubernetes Secrets…
Is Pulp a Good Open-Source Alternative to Nexus or Artifactory?
Our team is setting up a software package manager and initially looked at Nexus, but the free edition has limits that block requirements such as SSO, while the…
How Are Database Credentials Managed Securely in Production EKS?
I'm learning Kubernetes while building a three-tier application with a React frontend, Node.js backend, and Amazon RDS database. I understand that ConfigMaps are for non-sensitive settings and Kubernetes…
What web UI should I provide for internal Kubernetes users?
I manage several Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS and want to provide internal users with a web interface for viewing and managing the resources they're allowed to access.…
What web interface should I provide for internal Kubernetes users?
I manage several Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS and want to give internal users a web interface for viewing and managing the resources they're allowed to access. I'm…
What’s the best way to allocate AWS costs across tenants in a shared SaaS platform?
I run a multi-tenant product on a shared EKS cluster with a shared database. Tenants are separated at the application layer using a tenantId, and each request can…
Is a Public EKS API Endpoint Safe with a Strict IP Allowlist?
I run a central Argo CD instance in EKS using ApplicationSets to manage several EKS clusters over private networking. One additional cluster is in a separate account and…
Which instance families work best for production Node.js workloads?
We run several Node.js microservices in a production Kubernetes cluster on AWS, currently using t3 instances. I'm wondering what instance types other teams use for production and whether…
EKS Pod Identity Agent Times Out When New Nodes Scale Up
We run Dagster jobs on EKS with S3 compute logs. When Karpenter adds a node for a job, the job sometimes fails to start because it cannot obtain…
How Can I Position My Founder Experience for DevOps Roles?
I ran a managed hosting company for five years, supporting a single application and operating more than 3,500 containers at its peak. Before that, I spent two years…
Should I Move My Workers to ECS Fargate Spot or EKS?
I'm migrating worker processes from Elastic Beanstalk running on EC2 to a container-based platform. I'm deciding between ECS with Fargate Spot and EKS using Fargate or EC2 Spot…