Operating in the Kubernetes Cloud on Amazon EKS with Eswar Bala
from Screaming in the Cloud Hosted by Corey Quinn
Eswar Bala, Director of Amazon EKS at AWS, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss how and why AWS built a Kubernetes solution, and what customers are looking for out of Amazon EKS. Eswar reveals the concerns he sees from customers about the cost of Kubernetes, as well as the reasons customers adopt EKS over ECS. Eswar gives his reasoning on why he feels Kubernetes is here to stay and not just hype, as well as how AWS is working to reduce the complexity of Kubernetes. Corey and Eswar also explore the competitive landscape of Amazon EKS, and the new product offering from Amazon called Karpenter. About Eswar Eswar Bala is a Director of Engineering at Amazon and is responsible for Engineering, Operations, and Product strategy for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Eswar leads the Amazon EKS and EKS Anywhere teams that build, operate, and contribute to the services customers and partners use to deploy and operate Kubernetes and Kubernetes applications securely and at scale. With a 20+ year career in software , spanning multimedia, networking and container domains, he has built greenfield teams and launched new products multiple times. Links Referenced: Amazon EKS: https://aws.amazon.com/eks/ kubernetesthemuchharderway.com: https://kubernetesthemuchharderway.com kubernetestheeasyway.com: https://kubernetestheeasyway.com EKS documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/ EKS newsletter: https://eks.news/ EKS GitHub: https://github.com/aws/eks-distro
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