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author = "AWS Kubernetes Developer Advocates"
categories = ["Archive", "2022", "Weekly"]
date = 2022-04-29T07:00:00Z
description = "Karpenter 0.9.0, EKS add-ons for OpenTelemetry, bootstrapping clusters with EKS Blueprints, an upcoming Twitter space, and more"
draft = false
slug = "015"
title = "EKS News 015"
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In this issue we'll touch on Karpenter 0.9.0, EKS add-ons for OpenTelemetry, bootstrapping clusters with EKS Blueprints, an upcoming Twitter space, and more.

The schedule for [AWS Container Days](https://awscontainerdayseurope.splashthat.com/) is out! Give it a look and register if you'd like us to send you calendar invites. See the page for more details.

## New service announcements and features

[Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announces Karpenter v0.9.0 with support for Pod Affinity](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/amazon-eks-karpenter-v0-9-0-pod-affinity/)

* Other recent updates include: volume aware scheduling and a smaller dependency on launch templates

[EKS add-ons support for the OpenTelemetry Operator is now generally available](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/eks-opentelemetry-operator-now-available/)

* For managing the lifecycle and configuration of OTEL collectors/exporters
* Now available as a "managed" add-on
* [Metrics and traces collection using Amazon EKS add-ons for AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/metrics-and-traces-collection-using-amazon-eks-add-ons-for-aws-distro-for-opentelemetry/) (Getting started blog)

[ACK Controllers for Amazon EKS, Amazon ECR, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, AWS Application Autoscaling and AWS API Gateway v2 now generally available](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/amazon-ack-ecr-dynamodb-s3-aws-application-api-gateway-available/)

## New and notable blogs

[How to run a Multi-AZ stateful application on EKS with AWS FSx for NetApp ONTAP](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/how-to-run-a-multi-az-stateful-application-on-eks-with-aws-fsx-for-netapp-ontap/)

* This blog examines how to create a stateful application on Amazon EKS with volumes backed by [NetApp’s Trident Container Storage Interface (CSI)](https://github.com/NetApp/trident)driver
* FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed service that provides highly reliable, scalable, performant, and feature-rich file storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system
* FSx for NetApp ONTAP is good for applications that need high IO and throughput and it is accessible across an AZ boundary like EFS.
* [How Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP works](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/ONTAPGuide/how-it-works-fsx-ontap.html)

[Bootstrapping clusters with EKS Blueprints](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/bootstrapping-clusters-with-eks-blueprints/)

* Blueprints help you configure and deploy EKS clusters consistently across AWS accounts and regions
* It can also be used to install popular add-ons and configure namespaces/RBAC for development teams sharing the cluster
* Available for CDK and Terraform
* Several AWS Partners including [Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/eks-blueprints-datadog/), [Dynatrace](https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/dynatrace-named-a-launch-partner-of-amazon-eks-blueprints/), [HashiCorp](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/vault-and-aws-partner-to-enhance-kubernetes-security), [Kubecost](https://blog.kubecost.com/blog/deploy-kubecost-amazon-eks-blueprints), [New Relic](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/simplifying-kubernetes-observability-with-amazon-eks-blueprints/), [Ondat](https://www.ondat.io/blog/ondat-is-now-available-via-amazon-eks-blueprints), [Rafay](https://github.com/RafaySystems/rafay-eks-blueprints-addon), [Snyk](https://github.com/snyk-partners/snyk-monitor-eks-blueprints-addon), Tetrate (<https://github.com/tetratelabs/terraform-eksblueprints-tetrate-istio-addon>), [Kasten By Veeam](https://blog.kasten.io/kasten-k10-for-amazon-eks-blueprints) have already built add-ons that allow customers to use their products with EKS Blueprints
* [EKS Blueprints Explained](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhoZMbqwwsw) (Lightboard)
* [AWS EKS Blueprints for Terraform](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXa-y-Uwh2w) (CTFC)

[Shipping logs to third-parties with Kinesis Data Firehose and Fluent Bit for Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/shipping-logs-to-third-parties-with-kinesis-data-firehose-and-fluent-bit-for-amazon-eks-on-aws-fargate/)

* Explains how to ship container logs to Splunk using Fluent Bit and Kinesis Firehose

## Containers from the Couch

[Migrate Kubernetes cluster autoscaler to Karpenter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXYNmnzbEFA?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=eks-news-015) (demo)

[Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler vs Vertical Pod Autoscaler](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZgmfUprVgZw?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=eks-news-015) (short)

[Kubernetes Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dzsYkXo1_Tg?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=eks-news-015) (short)

[Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNexvhb_DuY?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=eks-news-015) (short)

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## Ecosystem News

[Twitter Space: Amazon EKS OP1 feedback](https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1rmxPgmnLNmJN)

* Justin Garrison is running a Twitter Space that the community can give feedback directly to DAs and PMs working on EKS as we plan priorities for the next year.

[Istio has applied to become a CNCF project](https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/istio-has-applied-to-join-the-cncf/)

* The Istio project is pleased to announce its intention to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
* It is almost 5 years since Google, IBM and Lyft launched Istio 0.1 in May 2017
* The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee will carefully consider our application, and perform due diligence. After that, they’ll open up for a vote, and if successful, the project will be transferred.

[v3.5 data inconsistency postmortem](https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/blob/main/Documentation/postmortems/v3.5-data-inconsistency.md)

* Summary: Code refactor in v3.5.0 resulted in consistent index not being saved atomically. Independent crashes could lead to committed transactions not reflected on all the members.
* Impact: No user reported problems in production as triggering the issue required frequent crashes, however the issue was critical enough to motivate a public statement. Main impact comes from losing user trust into etcd reliability.

[WEBINAR: Manage with Ease: Application Portability on EKS with Weave GitOps](https://go.weave.works/Webinar-AWS-Application-Portability-OnDemand.html?LSD=On-Demand&CampaignID=7014M000001zT70QAE&LeadSource=Partner?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=eks-news-015)

In this webinar, you will learn:

* How to reduce complexity so a small team can manage large fleets of clusters running in diverse cloud providers as well as on premises
* How to make it easy for your development teams to deliver their applications securely and consistently, regardless of the target environment
* When fixing the main data inconsistency we have found multiple other edge cases that could lead to data corruption
* There's a list of action items to be implemented to help mitigate this in the future.
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