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Karpenter: Rethinking Node Autoscaling on Kubernetes
July 3, 2026
Karpenter drops the node-group and ASG layer entirely, provisioning right-sized instances straight from the pod spec. Here's how it differs from the Cluster Autoscaler, its NodePool/NodeClass model, and how consolidation claws back capacity.
Read more →EKS Has No Pod Limit: Here's What's Actually Stopping You
June 19, 2026
EKS has no AWS-enforced pod-per-node quota — the cap you hit is really an IP-address ceiling. Here's how the VPC CNI math works and how prefix delegation lifts a node from 29 pods to 110.
Read more →Kubernetes Resource Requests and Limits: A Practical Guide
June 17, 2026
How resource requests, limits, and QoS classes work in Kubernetes — plus practical defaults for reserving node resources and protecting nodes from exhaustion.
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