Container & Kubernetes Services

Modernize your applications with containers. We help organizations design, deploy, and manage scalable container architectures on AWS.

Container Services

Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)

Production-grade Kubernetes platform:

• Cluster Design: Multi-AZ, highly available control plane
• Node Management: Self-managed or Fargate nodes
• VPC Integration: Private clusters, VPC CNI configuration
• IAM Authentication: RBAC integration with AWS IAM
• Ingress Controllers: ALB, NGINX, Traefik configuration
• Add-ons: Metrics server, Cluster Autoscaler, AWS EBS CSI driver
• Upgrades: Cluster and node version upgrades

AWS Fargate

Serverless container execution:

• ECS on Fargate: Container orchestration without managing servers
• EKS on Fargate: Kubernetes pods without EC2 instances
• Cost Optimization: Right-sized CPU/memory configurations
• Security: Isolated compute environments
• Use Cases: Microservices, batch jobs, API endpoints

Amazon ECS

Elastic Container Service for Docker containers:

• Task Definitions: Container configuration and environment variables
• Service Discovery: Cloud Map for internal service communication
• Auto Scaling: Target tracking and scheduled scaling
• Deployment Strategies: Rolling update, blue/green deployments
• CI/CD Integration: CodeBuild/CodePipeline for container builds

ECR (Elastic Container Registry)

Private Docker image registry:

• Image Lifecycle Policies: Automate image cleanup
• Vulnerability Scanning: Detect security issues in images
• Cross-Account Replication: Share images across accounts
• Private Registry: Secure image storage with IAM policies
• Image Encryption: KMS encryption for sensitive images

Microservices Architecture

Design Patterns

We implement proven microservices patterns:

• API Gateway: RESTful and WebSocket APIs
• Service Mesh: AWS App Mesh for inter-service communication
• Event-Driven: SNS/SQS for asynchronous messaging
• CQRS: Separate read/write models for scalability
• Saga Pattern: Distributed transaction management

Service Communication

• REST/gRPC: Synchronous communication
• Event Bus: Event-driven architecture with EventBridge
• Message Queues: SQS for decoupled communication
• Service Discovery: Cloud Map for dynamic service registration

Data Management

• Database per Service: Isolated data stores
• Shared Nothing: Independent deployments
• Event Sourcing: Reconstruct state from events
• CQRS: Optimized read/write patterns

Container Orchestration Comparison

Technology Stack

Container Migration

Lift & Shift to Containers

• Containerize: Dockerize existing applications
• Extract Configuration: Externalize config to environment variables
• State Separation: Move state to managed services (RDS, S3)
• Service Decomposition: Break monoliths into services

Modernization

• 12-Factor Apps: Cloud-native application principles
• Stateless Services: Remove session state from containers
• Health Checks: Implement liveness and readiness probes
• Graceful Shutdown: Handle SIGTERM for zero-downtime deployments

Monitoring & Observability

Container Insights

• Cluster Metrics: CPU, memory, network utilization
• Pod Metrics: Per-container resource usage
• Node Metrics: Instance-level performance
• Service Metrics: Request rates, error rates, latency

Distributed Tracing

• AWS X-Ray: Request tracing across services
• Jaeger: Open-source tracing with EKS
• OpenTelemetry: Vendor-neutral instrumentation

Logging

• CloudWatch Logs: Centralized log aggregation
• Fluent Bit: Log shipping from containers
• Log Patterns: Structured logging with JSON
• Log Retention: Cost-effective log storage policies

Security Best Practices

Image Security

• Base Images: Use minimal, trusted base images
• Vulnerability Scanning: ECR scanning, Trivy
• Image Signing: Notation for image verification
• Non-Root Containers: Run as non-privileged users
• Read-Only Filesystems: Immutable containers

Runtime Security

• Pod Security Policies: Control pod behavior
• Network Policies: Restrict pod-to-pod communication
• IAM Roles for Service Accounts: Fine-grained permissions
• Secrets Management: Secrets Manager, Parameter Store
• Admission Controllers: Validate pod configurations

Case Studies

SaaS Platform

• Challenge: Monolithic application, difficult scaling
• Solution: Broke into 15 microservices on EKS
• Result: Independent deployments, 3x faster releases

Healthcare Application

• Challenge: HIPAA compliance, auto-scaling requirements
• Solution: ECS on Fargate with VPC isolation
• Result: Compliant infrastructure, automatic scaling

Financial Services

• Challenge: High-frequency trading platform
• Solution: EKS with GPU nodes and low-latency networking
• Result: Sub-millisecond trade execution

Why CloudVantage?

• Kubernetes Certified: CKS/CKA certified engineers
• Production Experience: Operated 100+ production clusters
• Multi-Cloud Expertise: EKS, EKS Anywhere, Anthos
• End-to-End: From design to ongoing management

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