Karpenter

https://karpenter.sh/ Kubernetes cluster autoscaling project

helm repo add karpenter https://charts.karpenter.sh/
helm repo update

helm upgrade --install --namespace karpenter --create-namespace \
  karpenter karpenter/karpenter \
  --version v0.6.3 \
  --set serviceAccount.annotations."eks\.amazonaws\.com/role-arn"=${KARPENTER_IAM_ROLE_ARN} \
  --set clusterName=${CLUSTER_NAME} \
  --set clusterEndpoint=${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT} \
  --set aws.defaultInstanceProfile=KarpenterNodeInstanceProfile-${CLUSTER_NAME} \
  --wait # for the defaulting webhook to install before creating a Provisioner

News

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/amazon-eks-karpenter-v0-9-0-pod-affinity/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-karpenter-v0-5/

Related

• Kubernetes Autoscaler
• https://aws.github.io/aws-eks-best-practices/karpenter/
• KarpenterNode IAM Role

See also

• Karpenter, Karpenter releases, best practices, karpenter.sh/capacity-type, karpenter.sh/discovery, kind: Provisioner, kind: AWSNodeTemplate, kubectl provisioner, TopologyKey, FailedDraining, Evict, Karpenter logs, controller., ttlSecondsUntilExpired, KEDA
• Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), Horizontal cluster-proportional-autoscaler container, Kubernetes cluster-proportional-vertical-autoscaler, Kubernetes Horizontal cluster-proportional-autoscaler container, FailedGetResourceMetric
• EKS, eksctl, EKS add-ons, Amazon EKS cluster role, Terraform EKS, Kubernetes Autoscaler, Karpenter, Terraform module: EKS, Terraform resource: aws eks node group, Terraform data source: aws_eks_cluster, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes, AWS Load Balancer Controller, Amazon EKS Anywhere, Kustomize, aws-iam-authenticator, ACK, tEKS, Amazon EKS authorization, Amazon EKS authentication, Nodegroup, EKS storage, aws-ebs-csi-driver, aws-efs-csi-driver, aws-load-balancer-controller, amazon-vpc-cni-k8s, EKS security, EKS Best Practices Guides, hardeneks, EKS versions, fargate-scheduler, eks-connector, Resilience in Amazon EKS, EKS control plane logging