Archive of posts with category 'cloud'

Scaling Istio

In a large, busy cluster, how do you scale Istio to address Istio-proxy Container being OOM-Killed and Istiod crashes if too many connected istio-proxies?

Work Around Max Count of Security Group Rules on EKS

AWS EKS on VPC networks need AWS Security Group Rules (SG) to receipt ingress traffic. But what if you reach the max rules count in your SG?

Layer-4 Load Balancer & Zero-downtime Autoscaling and Upgrade

Your Kubernetes cluster probably has a shared ingress for north-south traffic, coming from a cloud load balancer and lands on your favorite proxies like Envoy, or Istio gateways, or Nginx....

Lessons from Scaling GKE: L4 ILB Tops at 250 Nodes

My team at Cruise operates tens of Kubernetes clusters with 10,000s cores and 100s of TB of RAM. Since migration to GCP, we have hit several interesting scaling issues. One...