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Essential Add-ons for a High-Functioning EKS Cluster

At SleakOps, our mission is to ensure your EKS cluster runs smoothly and efficiently. To achieve this, we install essential components that handle critical functionalities in your cluster. These components play a vital role in monitoring, external connectivity, load balancing, and intelligent node provisioning, empowering your applications to thrive.

  • Metric Server: SleakOps installs the Metric Server, a crucial component that collects and provides valuable cluster and node-level metrics. It enables you to monitor the performance of your cluster, understand resource utilization, and make informed scaling decisions. With the Metric Server in place, you gain valuable insights into your cluster's health, empowering you to optimize its performance effortlessly.

  • External-DNS: Simplifying DNS management is essential, and SleakOps ensures seamless external connectivity by deploying External-DNS. This component automatically creates or updates DNS records in your DNS provider, ensuring your applications are accessible via user-friendly domain names. Say goodbye to manual DNS management and let External-DNS handle it for you. More information about it can be found here .

  • Automatic Load Balancer: SleakOps takes the hassle out of load balancer provisioning with the Automatic Load Balancer component. We ensure automatic provisioning of load balancers for your services in the cluster. This dynamic configuration distributes incoming traffic across your application instances efficiently, maintaining high availability and scaling as needed. More information about it can be found here .

  • Karpenter Deployment: As a pioneer in intelligent node provisioning, SleakOps expertly deploys Karpenter. This critical component scales your cluster efficiently based on actual resource demands. With Karpenter, nodes are automatically provisioned and deprovisioned as workload requirements change, minimizing resource waste and maximizing performance. For more information about how karpenter works, check their documentation

By partnering with SleakOps, your EKS cluster becomes a robust and resilient tool, capable of meeting the demands of modern containerized applications while maintaining cost-effectiveness and operational efficiency. Leave the technical intricacies to us, and focus on what matters most—building and delivering exceptional applications.

Optional addons

  • Grafana
    Easily collect, correlate, and visualize data with beautiful dashboards using Grafana — the open source data visualization and monitoring solution that drives informed decisions, enhances system performance, and streamlines troubleshooting. Use this addon to analyze your application memory and CPU consumption.
  • LOKI
    Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream. Use this addon to browser and monitor your application logs.
  • Kubecost
    Provides real-time cost visibility and insights for teams using Kubernetes, helping you continuously reduce your cloud costs. Use this addon to get more details about cost every project into your cluster.