Containers

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A multi-cluster shared services architecture with Amazon EKS using Cilium ClusterMesh

Introduction Over the past couple of years, organizations have increased their pace of Kubernetes adoption. They want to be more agile so they can innovate and deliver new products to the market more efficiently. Among many of the early adopters of the Kubernetes platform, it was not uncommon to operate a single large Kubernetes cluster […]

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AWS App Mesh ingress and route enhancements

Before today, the AWS App Mesh gateway only allowed for matches on the path of an incoming request with no configurable rewrites of the hostname and/or path. In the AWS App Mesh roadmap issues 73 and 247, you asked us about allowing host and path rewrites for incoming traffic to resources within your mesh. App […]

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Integrate ROSA with AWS CodeCommit

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS is a fully managed OpenShift service, jointly supported by both Red Hat and Amazon Web Services and managed by Red Hat SRE team. ROSA is an opinionated OpenShift platform on AWS that takes away cluster lifecycle management from the customer, so that they can focus on building applications rather […]

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Announcing the general availability of AWS Proton

It’s been six months since we introduced AWS Proton at re:Invent 2020, and today, we’re happy to announce that it is generally available and ready for your production usage! For those not familiar with AWS Proton, let’s begin by reviewing what it is. Then, we’ll take a look at some of the features that have […]

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Setting up a Bottlerocket managed node group on Amazon EKS with Terraform

Introduction Kubernetes, an open-source container management system, has surged in popularity and adoption in the past several years. From startups to large established enterprises across industry verticals are rapidly adopting it for their mission critical tasks and workloads. It is declarative, open source, and highly pluggable. In this blog, we will discuss what is, along […]

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Building a fault tolerant architecture with a Bulkhead Pattern on AWS App Mesh

When packaging and deploying APIs into containers services, it is common for each service to serve more than one responsibility or many downstream dependencies. In such scenarios, the failure during the execution of one responsibility can often spread to the entire application and causing a systemic failure. Let’s look at an example: imagine an e-commerce […]

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Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS: architecture and networking

It’s not new to see customers migrate OpenShift workloads to AWS to take advantage of the cloud, as well as the portfolio of AWS native services to compliment the application workloads running in OpenShift. Recently, however, there has been a noted shift of customers moving to managed services, thus, we are starting to see customers […]

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Happy Building with App Runner and Copilot!

Enabling continuous workflows for AWS App Runner service with persistency using AWS Copilot CLI

We recently launched a new service called AWS App Runner, the simplest way to build and run your containerized stateless web application on AWS. App Runner provisions and manages all the required resources for you to run containers such as build pipelines, load balancers, scaling in and out, and of course, its underlying infrastructure. While […]

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Building an Amazon ECS Anywhere home lab with Amazon VPC network connectivity

Since 2014, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) has helped AWS customers orchestrate containerized application deployments across a wide range of different compute environments. Initially, Amazon ECS could only be used with AWS managed compute hardware, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, AWS Fargate, AWS Wavelength, and AWS Outposts. With the general […]

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Running WordPress on Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate with Amazon EFS

I built my first website back in 1997. It was a fan site for my then favorite musician. I didn’t know much about creating websites, but I had a burning desire to tell the World Wide Web (as if anyone was listening) about my musical preferences. The floppy-disk-booted-PCs in my school’s computer lab ran MS-DOS, […]

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