The DC Kubernetes Meetup featured a presentation by Faheem Memon, discussing various AWS updates, including new EC2 instances and enhancements in services like AWS App Runner and Karpenter. Key announcements included improved serverless capabilities, autoscaling for web application containers, and advancements in Kubernetes support. Participants were encouraged to join the community and the upcoming Kubernetes Community Days event in DC on November 4th.

1. Welcome to the DC Kubernetes Meetup
reInvent 2021 - Recap
Today's presenter is
Faheem Memon, Principal DevOps
Architect @ Amobee Inc.

2. Join our Slack channel (#meetup-dc) on the Kubernetes
workspace (https:/
/slack.k8s.io/)
And register for the Kubernetes Community Days DC (Nov 4th)
on community.cncf.io/kcd-washington-dc
Supported by

3. reInvent 2021 Recap
Presented By: Faheem Memon

5. Announcements / Updates
● AWS re:Post – https://repost.aws/
● EC2 Instances
○ AWS Graviton 3 with C7g Instances
○ Trn1 Instances
○ Amazon EC2 G5g Instances
○ Amazon EC2 Im4gn and Is4gen Instances
● Recycle Bins for EBS Snapshots
● Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering: Archive Instant Access Tier
● Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Replication
● AWS Control Tower
○ Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) and data residency guardrails.

6. Announcements / Updates
● AWS CloudControl API
● AWS CDK
○ Construct Hub – https://constructs.dev/
○ Swift, Kotlin, Rust support added
● Serverless
○ EMR
○ Kinesis
○ Redshift
○ MSK
● Cloud Watch Improvements (Insights, RUM)
● AWS Amplify Studio
○ Integration with Figma
● AWS IoT TwinMaker, AWS IoT ExpressLink
● AWS Backup Support for Amazon S3 (preview)
● Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access
● AWS EC2 Mac

7. Announcements / Updates
● AWS App Runner Service
● EKS IPv6 Support
● EKS Anywhere / ECS Anywhere
● Container with Lambda
● Open Source
○ Karpenter
○ Bottlerocket
○ AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)
○ CDK for Kubernetes (cdk8s)
○ ECS Copilot CLI
○ Node Termination Handler (NTH)

8. Karpenter - New k8s Cluster Autoscaler
● Just in time compute resources
● Flexible
○ Multiple instance types
○ Multiple zones
○ Multiple CPU architectures
○ Multiple resource types (on-demand,
spot)
● Node provisioning efficiency
● Node deprovisioning
● Nov 29, 2021 - v0.5 GA
https://karpenter.sh/docs/getting-started/

9. AWS App Runner
● Web Application Containers
● Autoscaling
● Pay per use - requests
● Rapid Deployment
● Blue/Green OOB
https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/

10. Bottlerocket
● OS Optimized for Containers - small footprint
● Secure default with SELinux
● Automated OS Updates using k8s operator
https://github.com/bottlerocket-os

11. References
● Karpetner - https://github.com/aws/karpenter
● AWS Container Day @Kubecon NA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0Tv7IiQQw
● App Runner - https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/getting-started/
● ACK - https://github.com/aws-controllers-k8s
● EKS Road Map - https://tinyurl.com/3bp4tnzn

12. K9s Demo - Jason Morgan
https://k9scli.io/