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From YouTube: Seamless scaling of Kubernetes nodes — Marko Bevc 2.1.9

Description

If you're running your container workloads on AWS EKS orchestration platform and you are trying to dynamically provision workload resources based on the current load, you might find yourself in a position where limitations and rules of node group scaling might feel a bit too rigid.

This talk will focus on an interesting node lifecycle management solution from AWSlabs called Karpenter, which is an alternative approach to probably the most frequently used Cluster Autoscaler. Is this a better and more efficient way of allocating worker node resources? Would that get you around some of the node group constraints?

The project hasn’t reached GA stage yet and still has to solve some goals from the roadmap, but Marko thinks it has a lot of potential. We will look into what the current release has to offer and how is it dealing with this challenge of improving efficient dynamic workload provisioning.