aws/karpenter-provider-aws
Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
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Where it stands
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Ranks #579 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 20%).
2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 6 days ago, with 438 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 21% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Automates Kubernetes node provisioning by dynamically scaling nodes based on pod scheduling requirements and cluster demand.
- Enhances cluster efficiency and cost-effectiveness by quickly provisioning and terminating nodes to match workload needs.
- Use for optimizing resource allocation in Kubernetes clusters running variable or unpredictable workloads on AWS.
- Use for reducing operational overhead by automating node lifecycle management in cloud-native Kubernetes environments.
- Use for improving application availability by ensuring pods are scheduled promptly through flexible node autoscaling.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Karpenter is an open-source node provisioning project built for Kubernetes. Karpenter improves the efficiency and cost of running workloads on Kubernetes clusters by:
Come discuss Karpenter in the #karpenter channel, in the Kubernetes slack or join the Karpenter working group bi-weekly calls. If you want to contribute to the Karpenter project, please refer to the Karpenter docs.
Check out the Docs to learn more.
Daily snapshots
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+46 stars over 86 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +3 on Aug 14.
Forks
1.3K+45
Open issues
547+50
Compared with peers in Kubernetes
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 11, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project-HAMi/HAMi | 4.8K | +199 | 75 | 56 days ago |
| seaweedfs/seaweedfs | 35.7K | +152 | 75 | 24 days ago |
| google/gvisor | 19.7K | +140 | 75 | 5 days ago |
| traefik/traefik | 65.2K | +133 | 75 | 5 days ago |
| ys-ll/uniterm | 881 | +106 | 75 | 5 days ago |
| aws/karpenter-provider-aws | 7.7K | +0 | 75 | 6 days ago |
| Category median | 19.7K | +140 | 75 | — |
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