EKS In-person Workshop: Smart Scaling with Karpenter

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## Overview:

Welcome to the nOps AWS Workshop on Smart Scaling with Karpenter. This interactive, hands-on workshop, is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to optimize your Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS using Karpenter. Discover how to maintain availability and service level in a changing cluster and how to keep up with the spot market using our proprietary AI algorithm.

Learn how to configure Pod Disruption Budgets and GracePeriod for best performance or best stability, to allow you to maintain availability while permitting automated node replacements or termination. Understand the relationship between Persistent Volumes and pod state, and how to prepare pods for shutdown.

## Learning Objectives

• Understand the advantages of Karpenter over legacy scaling solutions like the Cluster Autoscaler.
• Learn about Pod Disruption Budgets and how to use them to guarantee availability.
• Discover the secrets of the AWS Spot Market.
• Explore best practices for cloud cost optimization and efficient cluster management.

### Who should attend?

Anyone who

• Is thinking about migrating to Karpenter
• Is in progress of migrating to Karpenter
• Wants to make Karpenter more efficient and less expensive
• Wants to reduce their Kubernetes bill

## Speakers

#### James Wilson

nOps | VP of Engineering

#### John Garcia

nOps | Solutions Architect and Kubernetes Expert

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