v1.0.8

Aug 29 2023 - v1.0.8

• EKS workshop and Karpenter workshop moved initialize with EKS Blueprints for terraform

v1.0.7 New Gitlab workshop and updates to Karpenter workshops

New Gitlab workshop

• Added the new Gitlab workshop #189 @mikegolubev @jagpk

Karpenter workshop updates

• Update to 1.23 versions for eksctl, kubectl and eks cluster #211 @ruecarlo
• Added FIS experiment to interrupt Spot instances #211 @rmccone
• Added a chapter on consolidation #213 @ruecarlo
• update Karpenter workshop to v0.18.1 #220 @bwagner5

v1.0.6 New Karpenter workshop, updates to Batch, EMR, ASG and CICD workshops

New Karpenter Workshop

• Added the new Karpenter workshop #184 @ruecarlo
• Upgraded Karpenter to version 0.10.0 #191 @ruecarlo
• Upgraded Karpenter to version 0.13.1 #198 @ruecarlo

Batch changes

• Integrated AWS Step Functions for Workflow orchestration #205 @bpguasch

EMR changes

• Added Managed Scaling in EMR #194 @sacksi28 @jagpk
• Added Testing Spot Instance interruptions with FIS #187 #207 @sacksi28 @jagpk

ASG changes

• Included Attribute based instance type selection while creating the ASG #193 @ashwinikumar-sa

CICD changes

• Updated CloudFormation template fixes for Jenkins #190 @christianhxc

Misc changes

• Updated jquery-ui version to 1.13.1 #199 @ruecarlo

v1.0.5 Updates to EKS Workshop, Launching Spot Instances (new), AWS Batch Rendering (new)

• The Launching Spot instances workshop has been updated to reflect what developers should know about the different API's and the best practices. Summary, In most scenarios ASG would be the right approach to use Spot instances.
• EKS workshop udpated to 1.21 and corrected quite a lot of issues that were affecting the execution of the workshop
• AWS Batch Rendering has been added. This covers how to run Rendering pipelines on AWS Batch using a mix of on-demand and spot instances.

v1.0.4 Updates to Auto Scaling Group, EMR and new ECS workshop

Auto Scaling with Multiple instances changes:

• Update EC2 Auto Scaling with multiple instance types and purchasing options best practices, leaving custom interruption handler as an optional exercise to suit other use cases where Capacity Rebalancing may not be the best fit (e.g. queue workers) - #134
  Update EKS Metric Server and rest of dependencies
• Update workshop weights to position the short version first and Running EC2 Workloads at scale at the bottom, as this is a shorter version that's preferable for Spot-only (and remote) events.
• Update to AWS CLI 2.x

EMR Changes

• Modify screenshot for Instance fleets to include the allocation strategy
• Add a step to remove AWS CLI 1.x before installing AWS CLI 2.x
• Add instructions for SSH tunneling via Cloud9

ECS Workshop

• New ECS workshop covering ECS Capacity Providers, EC2 Spot and Fargate Spot best practices and ECS Cluster Autoscaler (CAS)

v1.0.3

• EKS Workshop updated to EKS 1.18
• Update EKS Metric Server and rest of dependencies
• EKS Workshop now supports a shorter version (45M) that reduce time by creating the services such as cluster and pre-requirements upfront.

v1.0.2

• EKS Workshop updated to EKS 1.16
• Update of EKS Workshop to Helm 3
• EKS Workshop updated to CA in Auto-Discovery mode
• Removed references to Spot Instance Advisor and use of EC2 Instance Selector instead.

v1.0.1 - Japanese localization

• Updated version of ASG, EKS
• Adding Japanese localization
• Adding left menu icon for changing language