Containers from the Couch: Optimizing Amazon EKS Costs with Karpenter

Containers from the Couch: Optimizing Amazon EKS Costs with Karpenter and StormForge

Get an intro and brief tour of the three dimensions of Kubernetes autoscaling in this highlight reel of StormForge CTO John Platt’s appearance on AWS Containers from the Couch, alongside AWS principal solutions architects Rajdeep Saha and Sai Vennam.

You’ll learn how the open source cluster autoscaler Karpenter works, the importance of setting resource requests, and the challenges of manually setting them using the Kubernetes VPA.

Highlight Reel of AWS Containers from the Couch featuring StormForge from StormForge on Vimeo.

You can also watch the full livestream on demand for more info about Kubernetes autoscaling, including a demo of how StormForge Optimize Live can help optimize Kubernetes autoscaling to improve cost and performance while removing manual toil.

If you want to put these lessons into practice, you can try Optimize Live for free, or play around in our Sandbox Environment.