Engineering

Kubernetes Spot Instances: How to Cut Compute Costs Without Gambling on Reliability
Spot Instances cut compute cost sharply but can be reclaimed with little notice. Used for…

What Is EKS Auto Mode? Managed Karpenter Node Autoscaling
EKS Auto Mode delivers Karpenter-powered node autoscaling without managing the controller. It reduces operational overhead…

Karpenter Disruption and Drift: How to Consolidate Nodes Safely
Karpenter disruption is how Karpenter removes or replaces nodes: through consolidation, drift, and expiration. Drift…

Karpenter Best Practices for Cost, Reliability, and Safe Scaling
Karpenter best practices balance cost and reliability: design focused NodePools, prefer spot with safe fallback,…

Karpenter Spot Instances: Cut Cost Without Interruptions
Karpenter can provision Spot Instances by setting the capacity type in a NodePool, which cuts…

How to Migrate from Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter
Migrating from Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter means replacing managed node groups with Karpenter NodePools that…

Karpenter Consolidation and Bin-Packing: How to Cut Node Waste Safely
Karpenter consolidation continuously repacks running workloads onto fewer, cheaper nodes and removes nodes that are…

Karpenter NodePools and NodeClasses: A Practical Configuration Guide
A Karpenter NodePool defines the constraints Karpenter uses to launch nodes (instance types, capacity type,…

What Is Karpenter? How Just-in-Time Node Provisioning Cuts Kubernetes Cost
Karpenter is an open-source Kubernetes node autoscaler, originally from AWS and now a CNCF project,…