Containerization & Orchestration

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate now lets you configure the size of ephemeral storage for your Tasks up to a maximum of 200GiB. All ephemeral storage on AWS Fargate continues to be encrypted by default with service-managed keys. View the full article

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports native Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for Amazon ECS tasks using task networking (awsvpc networking mode). Previously, IPv6 was only supported in host networking mode. With this capability, tasks using awsvpc networking mode can communicate with other endpoints in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and internet in dual-stack mode via either IPv4 or IPv6. This will allow customers to communicate with on-premises resources that support only IPv6 addresses and meet IPv6 compliance requirements. View the full article

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere, a new capability of Amazon ECS. Amazon ECS Anywhere provides a fully managed container orchestration service that enables customers to run and manage containerized applications on-premises using the same APIs, cluster management, workload scheduling, monitoring, and deployment pipelines they use with Amazon ECS today. Customers can use Amazon ECS Anywhere on their own infrastructure by connecting their servers or instances to the managed Amazon ECS control plane. Enterprises who need to keep their data on-premises for latency or regulatory reasons can now use a s…

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) capacity providers now support update functionality. You can update the parameters of a capacity provider using either the AWS Management Console or the new UpdateCapacityProvider API. View the full article

Excellent workshop / tutorial for setting up Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS); https://eksworkshop.com/ This workshop covers the following topics; Launching EKS using eksctl Deploying the Kubernetes Dashboard Autoscaling with Spot instances CI/CD with AWS CodePipeline Deploying with Jenkins Logging with Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana (EFK) Batch Processing with Argo Securing Your Cluster with Network Policies (Project Calico) Monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana Service Mesh with Istio Service Mesh with App Mesh Advanced VPC Networking with EKS Stateful containers using S…

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