Kubernetes Rolling Updates and Hidden Capacity Costs
A practical look at Kubernetes rolling updates, why maxUnavailable and maxSurge matter, and how terminating Pods can increase rollout capacity beyond replicas plus surge.
5 articles • 52 min total reading time
A practical look at Kubernetes rolling updates, why maxUnavailable and maxSurge matter, and how terminating Pods can increase rollout capacity beyond replicas plus surge.
How VPC CNI prefix delegation replaces individual IP assignment with /28 prefix blocks to dramatically increase pod density per node on EKS.
A step-by-step guide to migrating your Amazon EKS VPC CNI plugin from self-managed to AWS managed addon with zero downtime.
A hands-on guide to Helm workflows and essential commands, covering practical application deployment, configuration management, upgrades, rollbacks, and troubleshooting with real-world PostgreSQL examples.
A comprehensive introduction to Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes, covering key concepts, components, and practical examples for managing Kubernetes deployments.