Elevate your Amazon EKS clusters with NetApp

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters offer a powerful solution for managing your containerized applications across diverse environments. To maximize the potential of EKS, having robust tools that provide comprehensive insights and management capabilities is crucial. NetApp® Data Infrastructure Insights (DII) is designed to enhance your EKS experience, focusing on storage systems and dynamic changes within your Kubernetes environments.  

Let’s explore how NetApp can elevate your hybrid Amazon EKS clusters, bringing significant value to your IT operations (ITOps) and artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps). 

NetApp DII gives you in-depth visibility into your storage infrastructure and its associated workloads—which is essential for your data-intensive applications that operate on hybrid EKS clusters. By providing clear insights into the connectivity layers that link your workloads to their data, NetApp DII helps you optimize performance and reliability. This capability enables quick identification and resolution of issues throughout the stack, enhancing the efficiency and dependability of your Kubernetes environments.  

In hybrid EKS clusters, frequent changes and deployments are the norm. NetApp DII tracks every deployment and configuration change and captures each one as it happens. By spotting trends or unusual activities early on, DII helps you prevent deeper issues with configurations or performance. This proactive approach of linking these events with performance and health metrics keeps your EKS clusters operating smoothly and efficiently, with early detection and resolution of potential issues.  

This comprehensive change tracking also helps your administrators understand the impact of specific changes on the cluster's health and performance, particularly in relation to storage. By maintaining a stable and high-performing environment, even amid frequent changes, you achieve better management and optimization of your Kubernetes infrastructure.  

NetApp DII uses advanced predictive analytics to identify potential issues before they escalate. DII can foresee performance or capacity shortages, spot performance hot spots, and offer actionable suggestions to help you prevent disruptions. Proactive mitigation of these issues helps you keep your EKS clusters resilient and efficient, reducing the risk of downtime and performance bottlenecks.  

To maintain high performance of your environment, it’s crucial that you understand the dependencies within your Kubernetes workloads. NetApp DII clearly outlines these dependencies, giving you valuable insight into how workloads and storage performance affect the overall health, efficiency, and reliability of your EKS clusters. This visibility helps you optimize resources and mitigate risks so that you can keep your Kubernetes environment running smoothly and efficiently. 

When performance issues do arise, DII aids in root cause analysis by pinpointing the exact configurations at fault. With an anomaly detection system that’s continuously refined based on historical data and evolving cluster behavior, NetApp DII improves its accuracy over time and reduces false positives. This accuracy accelerates the troubleshooting process, which accelerates resolution and reduces downtime to help your environment maintain consistent application performance. 

NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights minimizes the risks associated with your storage and its workloads, effectively eliminating blind spots in your EKS clusters. By preventing changes—whether planned or unplanned—from leading to unexpected issues, DII aligns your infrastructure with the demands of the workloads that it supports. Consequently, your organization can maintain high availability, reliability, and scalability of your Kubernetes environments, even as they evolve and grow.  

NetApp’s comprehensive approach to ITOps and AIOps uses advanced analytics and real-time monitoring to provide a robust, proactive management framework. This framework enhances operational efficiency, reduces downtime, and optimizes resource usage, enabling your business to focus on innovation and growth. 

As we prepare for AWS re:Invent, we invite you to explore how NetApp can transform your approach to managing hybrid EKS clusters. Discover the power of enhanced visibility, real-time monitoring, and proactive issue detection. Learn how you can use NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights to get unparalleled visibility and control over your storage systems to keep your Kubernetes environments performing at their best.  

Join us at AWS re:Invent to discover how NetApp DII can enhance your hybrid EKS clusters and drive your organization’s success. Visit booth #1748, attend our sessions, and see firsthand how NetApp can help. See you there!  

Or for a deeper look at DII’s advanced Kubernetes capabilities, check out the demo here.