Containers

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is a fully managed implementation of Red Hat OpenShift. The Red Hat SRE team does all the heavy lifting of maintaining and operating an OpenShift cluster on behalf of customers, allowing them to refocus their resources where it is most beneficial to their business and customers. ROSA provides […]

Kubernetes is open-source software that allows you to deploy and manage containerized applications at scale. It manages clusters of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute instances and runs containers on those instances with processes for deployment, maintenance, and scaling. Using Kubernetes, you can run any type of containerized application using the same toolset on […]

I was helping a customer to migrate a Kubernetes workload from an on-premises data center into Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The customer had an existing investment in Istio and wanted to continue using it as their preferred service mesh in the Amazon EKS environment. However, the customer was struggling to implement end-to-end encryption […]

This post describes how to use Amazon Cognito to authenticate users for web apps running in an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS) cluster.  Behind any identity management system resides a complex network of systems meant to keep data and services secure. These systems handle functions such as directory services, access management, identity authentication, and […]

In enterprise organizations, it can sometimes be hard for engineering teams to move quickly. Teams must demonstrate they have a plan for keeping software up to date, they must pass security reviews to ensure the application architecture doesn’t introduce vulnerabilities into the environment, and they must think about how to instrument the application so there […]

Since Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) was launched in March 2021, clients in all industries and more than 20 countries are using ROSA for a variety of workloads. In October 2021, AWS released a feature enabling customers to enter into one-year contracts for ROSA software subscriptions through the console to help with cost […]

Companies worldwide are adopting containers to encapsulate their microservices, and many of them choose Kubernetes for automating deployment, scaling, and managing their containerized applications. As the number of these microservices grows, it becomes increasingly important to have a centralized backup mechanism in place to: Protect applications in case of physical and logical errors Perform migrations […]

One aspect of operating applications at scale is managing software in a manner that provides control as well as caters for self service and agility. As the modernization of applications and overall business processes takes place, agility requirements drive the need for teams to have access to the tools they require. How does a large-scale […]

Developers building container-based applications can now discover and download Docker Official Images directly from Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Public. This new capability gives AWS customers a simple and highly available way to pull Docker Official Images, while taking advantage of the generous AWS Free Tier. Customers pulling images from Amazon ECR Public to […]

In 2021, re:Invent offers an in-person and virtual conference experience for our attendees. The in-person part of the event will be held in Las Vegas from November 29, 2021 – December 3, 2021. Attendees for the virtual event can register for free and will have access to a subset of the sessions over the virtual […]