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4 postsIPv6-first EKS on AWS in 2026: what still forces NAT back in
A 2026 field report on running IPv6-first EKS on AWS: the remaining IPv4 traps in RDS, ECR, CloudFront and SDKs, and the real cost savings.
Kubernetes DNS on AWS, Part 2: The Hidden ztunnel Layer
EKS DNS timeouts traced to Istio ambient mode's ztunnel DNS capture, a hidden layer that mimics NodeLocal DNS failures — fixed with one annotation.
AWS EKS Privilege Escalation: Pod Metadata to Cluster-Admin
How a compromised EKS pod can escalate to cluster-admin via EC2 metadata and node tokens, plus a persistent aws-auth backdoor technique.
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commitbrief.comEKS node autoscaling with Karpenter: just-in-time capacity, no node groups
Karpenter provisions EC2 capacity for EKS based on actual pending pods instead of static node groups. A look at NodePool, EC2NodeClass, consolidation and Spot use.