Optimizing an EKS Cluster for Price and Performance

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Dan Tofan

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01. Course Overview

01. Course Overview.mp4

01:33

02. Growing Cost Awareness

02. Why EKS Costs Matter.mp4

05:02

03. Who Should Care About Eks Costs.mp4

06:02

04. Cost vs. Performance.mp4

04:00

05. Understand EKS Cost Components.mp4

04:37

06. Right-sizing Pods Resources.mp4

07:15

03. Optimizing Computing Costs

07. How Does EKS Use Instances.mp4

05:53

08. EC2 Instances Types.mp4

06:16

09. Burstable Performance Instances.mp4

06:14

10. Spot Instances.mp4

06:28

11. Reserved Instances.mp4

05:27

12. Savings Plans.mp4

06:40

04. Running Serverless with Fargate

13. What is Fargate.mp4

06:48

14. Fargate vs. EC2 Nodes.mp4

04:41

15. Mixing Fargate and EC2 Nodes.mp4

08:08

05. Optimizing Storage Costs

16. Understanding Storage Types.mp4

06:17

17. Comparing Storage Types.mp4

08:38

18. Reducing Storage Costs.mp4

06:31

06. Running Diverse Workloads

19. Why Use Graviton Instances.mp4

07:16

20. How to Use Graviton Instances.mp4

07:55

21. Deploying Windows Workloads.mp4

06:03

22. What Is Next.mp4

01:42

Description

AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) simplifies working with Kubernetes. However, there is no free lunch, and EKS bills can be surprisingly high. Take this course to learn how to reduce EKS bills, while running workloads in a variety of scenarios.

What You'll Learn?

AWS EKS is a great service for running your containers on Kubernetes. It’s easy to use and it’s very easy to spend a lot of money. In this course, Optimizing an EKS Cluster for Price and Performance, you’ll learn how to start taking control of your EKS bills. First, you’ll grow awareness about EKS costs. Next, you’ll discover how to optimize EKS computing costs. Finally, you’ll learn how to optimize EKS costs by using Fargate, reducing storage costs, and using Arm-based instances. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to optimize your EKS costs and performance.

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Dan Tofan

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Dan started programming decades ago on a Spectrum clone and started his professional programming career in 2003. Eager to learn, Dan moved to Netherlands to study at the University of Groningen. Now, Dan is proud of his PhD thesis on decision making and knowledge acquisition in software architecture, and about a dozen publications with hundreds of citations. Dan used Microsoft technologies for many years, but migrated gradually to Python, Linux and AWS, to learn more of the computing world. Currently, Dan is a full-time Python programmer at the Romania office of a global company in the research domain.

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