~/ nmadiraju.com Amazon EKS · Spot and Graviton
arrow_back Back to nmadiraju
Visual Walkthrough · Amazon EKS compute

How Spot and Graviton Work on Amazon EKS

Follow web and batch from full-price x86 nodes to Spot and Graviton, then check yourself with 8 questions.

1Visual Walkthrough

Spot and Graviton nodes on EKS: Karpenter, a NodePool, the interruption queue and a multi-arch image Your VPC holds six node slots that Karpenter fills, each showing its instance type, architecture, capacity type and Pods. The cluster holds Karpenter, NodePool default, Deployment web and Job batch. AWS services hold EC2, an EventBridge rule, the SQS interruption queue and Cost Explorer; ECR holds the web image. The walkthrough moves from On-Demand x86 nodes to Spot, handles a Spot interruption, pins batch to On-Demand, and adds Graviton with a multi-arch image. You kubectl · docker ECR repo: web YOUR VPC · NODES IN THE CLUSTER Karpenter launches and drains nodes NodePool default types: c, m, r · gen > 4 zones: 1a, 1b, 1c what Karpenter may launch Deployment web Job batch AWS SERVICES Amazon EC2 Spot + On-Demand EventBridge SQS queue Cost Explorer by purchase option and instance type

    2Quiz to check understanding

    Check yourself