At the beginning of this year, we (Beekeeper by LumApps Engineering) decided to adopt Karpenter for our EKS (Kubernetes/K8s) workloads, replacing our previous node autoscaling setup that used cluster-autoscaler with a managed autoscaling group (ASG). We made this decision before the release and hype of EKS Auto Mode, which is why we chose to implement a self-managed Karpenter solution.

Real-Time, Client-Side Load Balancing for Internal and Ingress Traffic in Kubernetes