Karpenter at Slack

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/how-slack-adopted-karpenter-to-increase-operational-and-cost-efficiency/

🔹 Efficiency boosted - Optimal instance selection for improved cluster utilization.
🔹 Cost reduction - Achieved a 12% savings on EKS compute costs.
🔹 Rapid scaling - Faster node provisioning directly via Amazon EC2 API.
🔹 Simplified management - Fewer Autoscaling Groups and streamlined operations.
🔹 Enhanced upgrades - Quicker, more efficient system upgrades.
🔹 Flexibility - Custom NodePool and EC2NodeClass across 200+ clusters.

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