In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Alex Lines and Vara Bonthu from AWS to talk about the Data on EKS project. The discussion dives into why AWS decided to build the Data on EKS project and provide patterns for EKS customers to use to deploy data platforms, machine learning and GenAI tools on EKS clusters. They talk about what's included and what's not included with each of these patterns and whats coming down the line.   

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Cloud Native News: 

• https://kubernetes.io/blog/2024/08/16/kubernetes-1-31-prevent-persistentvolume-leaks-when-deleting-out-of-order/
• https://kubernetes.io/blog/2024/08/16/matchlabelkeys-podaffinity/
• https://kubernetes.io/blog/2024/08/15/kubernetes-1-31-volume-attributes-class/
• https://roadmap.vcluster.com/changelog/vcluster-v020-ga
• https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/cloudbees-acquires-launchable-to-enable-development-teams-to-iterate-faster?Product=Launchable&Tag=Blog%2CAI%2CLaunchable%20Update  

Show links:

• https://awslabs.github.io/data-on-eks/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9aNXEu_a8k 
• https://github.com/awslabs/data-on-eks 
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-lines-aws/ 
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/varaprofile/  

Timestamps: 

• 00:01:45 Cloud Native News 
• 00:12:15 Interview with Alex and Vara 
• 00:58:21 Key takeaways