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50% Cost Savings with Karpenter: The Secret to Smarter EKS Scaling.
In the world of cloud computing, scaling infrastructure efficiently is crucial to ensuring optimal performance and cost management. Recently, our organization took a significant step forward in this area by implementing Karpenter on AWS EKS. This move has not only transformed our infrastructure scaling but also improved our resource utilization and cost-efficiency.
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What is Karpenter?
Before diving into the implementation, it’s important to understand what Karpenter is and why it’s been so impactful for our infrastructure. Karpenter is an intelligent Kubernetes autoscaler that automatically provisions and deprovisions cloud resources based on the needs of your workloads. Unlike traditional scaling methods, Karpenter responds in real-time, adjusting resources dynamically to meet the changing demands of the system. This ensures that we can maximize resource usage without manual intervention, all while optimizing costs.
How We Implemented Karpenter on AWS EKS
Our journey to implement Karpenter on AWS EKS involved multiple stages, with careful planning and execution. Here’s a breakdown of how we rolled it out:
