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Benefits of using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Benefits of using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

by | Jul 31, 2020 | Amazon, General, Other News

Amazon EKS Kubernetes AWS

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service on AWS that makes it easy to run Kubernetes without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane or worker nodes. 

Here are four benefits of using Amazon EKS

Highly Secure
EKS automatically applies the latest security patches to your cluster control plane. 

Multiple Availability Zones
EKS auto-detects and replaces unhealthy control plane nodes and provides on-demand, zero downtime upgrades and patching.

Serverless Compute
EKS supports AWS Fargate to remove the need to provision and manage servers, improving security through application isolation by design. 

Built with the Community 
AWS actively works with the Kubernetes community, including making contributions to the Kubernetes code base helping you take advantage of AWS services. 

Amazon EKS also supports adding Windows nodes as worker nodes and scheduling Windows containers. EKS supports running Windows worker nodes alongside Linux worker nodes. Allowing you to use the same cluster for managing applications on either operating system.

In terms of pricing, Amazon says you pay $0.10/hour for each Amazon EKS cluster you create. The service is also available in all AWS regions.

Click to learn or find out more about the service.

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Join the 2018 Durban Azure Kubernetes Challenge

Join the 2018 Durban Azure Kubernetes Challenge

by | Oct 4, 2018 | Events, General

Participate in the Durban Azure Kubernetes Challenge, put your Azure and Opensource skills to test and win a prize 

 

Durban Azure Kubernetes

Living in and around Durban? Here’s an opportunity to network and participate in a challenge facilitated by Microsoft MVPs and the Azure user community in Durban, South Africa. 

The invitation reads out;

“Challenge Yourself against some of the best and put your Azure Skills to the ultimate test in an 8am to 8pm Open-Source Saturday Marathon.

You will be required to Architect, Implement, and Optimize a business application but using only Open-Source technologies and the Kubernetes orchestrator.

You will be split into teams and you will get points for design, security, efficiency as well as the creativity of your application when running in production.

You application will be rigorously exposed to a brutal set of performance requirements and the team with the most points Wins and winning means you get a prize. Still to be disclosed.”

The event takes place October 13th at the Educor Westville Datacenter Auditorium and starts from 8am. To participate in the challenge, you need to have experience with Azure and Open Source technologies. Microsoft MVP Lawrance Reddy said “we are giving away MXChip IoT Azure Certified DevKits and other Microsoft goodies.  

Looking forward to participating? Click to register your attendance and all the best to the various projects that’ll come up. If you know anyone that might be interested, kindly share with them. Merci ?.