Understanding Karpenter’s Node Consolidation [EKS]: A Deep Dive
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Understanding Karpenter’s Node Consolidation [EKS]: A Deep Dive

This article assumes you have already installed karpenter and it’s intent is only to describe some caveat about consolidation mechanisms especially spot-to-spot consolidation in an EKS Cluster. As we will see, spot-to-spot consolidation ain’t an out of the box functionality and there are few things to be aware of if you want it to work…

Shifting a MySQL Database from Docker to Kubernetes
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Shifting a MySQL Database from Docker to Kubernetes

Migrate a MySQL Database from Docker to Kubernetes Not long ago, I had to migrate an application from Docker to Kubernetes. As part of this process, I needed to move the MySQL 8.0.39 database from a Docker container to a Kubernetes cluster. I thought it could be interesting to share how I accomplished this task,…