Articles

Engine Yard Kontainers (EYK) is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for deploying and managing applications in containers. EYK runs application containers on a fully-managed Kubernetes infrastructure. It is designed to allow developers to shift from DevOps to NoOps, as they don’t need to spend additional time on deployments aside from a single code push command.

• Managing EYK SSH Keys

  To deploy your application to an EYK Cluster requires an SSH connection and thus a public key shared with the cluster. NOTE: Uploading a public key is done on a per-cluster basis, rather than a per-ac...

• Accessing Resources from External VPCs

  Overview As you develop your application, you may have a need to connect to Engine Yard Cloud (EYC) environments or another Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Your Engine Yard Kontainers (EYK) resources, su...

• Adding AWS Elasticache Redis to a Kontainers Application

  Overview Engine Yard Kontainers makes embracing NoOps implementation easy by offering a built-in method to incorporate an AWS Elasticache Redis instance in your Cluster. AWS Elasticache is a fully man...

• Adding an AWS RDS Database to a Kontainers Application

  Overview If your Application needs a database you can add an AWS RDS (Relational Database Service) instance in the Engine Yard Kontainers (EYK) Web Console. EYK supports Postgres and MySQL database ty...

• Adding an S3 Bucket to a Kontainers Application

  Overview If your Application has storage requirements you can add an AWS S3 (Simple Storage Solutions) Bucket in the Engine Yard Kontainers Web Console. Creating a new Cloud Storage bucket is simple u...

• Troubleshooting Applications on Kontainers

  Overview When your application experiences errors or unexpected behavior, there are a number of mechanisms you can use within Engine Yard Kontainers (EYK) to help troubleshoot the issue. These mechani...

• Monitoring Applications on Kontainers

  Overview Every Engine Yard Kontainers (EYK) Application that you deploy is connected to a Grafana instance with basic Metrics available on your Application's Metrics tab in the EYK Web Console. From t...

• Release Management with Kontainers

  Overview When you push your application code to an Engine Yard Kontainers (EYK), a Release is created that is deployed to all containers in that application. This version of the code becomes the lates...

• Security and Endpoint Administration in Kontainers

  Overview Applications that are deployed with Engine Yard Kontainers receive a default URL within EYK's domain. You can use this default URL or assign your own registered domain name as the URL for you...

• Scaling Applications with the Kontainers Web Console

  Overview Your applications can be scaled based on the Process Type. Scaling can be static, defining a fixed number of Optimized Container Units (OCUs), or automatic, defining a set of parameters where...