Kubernetes Cron Jobs vs. AWS Lambdas

I’ve always stressed that it should never be Kubernetes or Serverless, but rather: What is the right tool for the job. Both technologies are great and both technologies carry their own baggage. This week as I was working on some design and thought about its implementation I had to decide whether I should add a…

EKS Additional users

In our EKS Kubernetes cluster we want multiple AWS users to be able to use the kubectl command to examine resources and for now, they can even have admin access to a few select groups. The way I’ve always done this in the past is I create new stanza in the aws-auth configMap in the…

Lens and EKS

Lens is a really cool front end dashboard for Kubernetes clusters. One issue I ran into from connecting to the cluster was that I typically use different AWS Profiles for different clusters. Typically I’ll do something like: To set my user. To put this in Lens so that it can connect, we just add this…