Exploring EKS with Karpenter on Fargate — Part 1
8 min readJun 17, 2023
Karpenter is a Kubernetes component built with AWS that helps to autoscale your compute resources based on the workload. It is similar to a Cluster Autoscaler but works differently. Between the two, Karpenter provides better flexibility in terms of configuring and launching the right-sized resources.
Similar to other Kubernetes components, Karpenter is required to run on a compute resource. Instead of creating a node group and running Karpenter on it, we will run it on Fargate, making it a…
