Velero is an open source tool to safely backup and restore, perform disaster recovery, and migrate Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes. It can be setup quickly with Terraform on a EKS cluster and is simple to operate. An example deployment including EKS can be cloned from here Installation via Terraform …

Karpenter automatically launches just the right compute resources to handle your cluster's applications. It is designed to let you take full advantage of the cloud with fast and simple compute provisioning for Kubernetes clusters. It is a replacement for the Cluster Autoscaler which has some issues in AWS Updated - …

EKSCTL can be used to quickly deploy a AWS EKS Cluster. This is based on using a sandbox AWS account The supporting files can be found on Github Create an EKS deployment file, I tend to create individual nodegroups dedicated to a single AZ 1 2[cloudshell-user@ip-10-1-181-252 cluster-autoscaler]$ cat ca-cluster.yaml 3 …

Cilium can run in chaining mode which allows it to run alongside the AWS-CNI plugin. This is based on using a sandbox AWS account The supporting files can be found on Github Install some extra tools 1curl -L --remote-name-all …