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AWS teams struggle to control VPC subnet capacity and topology

AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes platform engineers need finer control over VPC subnet placement and configuration. Reports describe Karpenter selecting subnets that are running low on IPs, and CDK users wanting more control over CIDRs, subnet tags, and eligible availability zones; changing a deployed VPC's AZ count can also require replacement or migration. The requests date from 2020–2022, so it is unclear whether these gaps persist or how widespread they are today.

For AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes platform engineers. Mentioned from Nov 2017 to Nov 2022 on GitHub.

7 different people described this problem in 5 separate discussions.

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  1. Also using spot and running out of ips. I have 3 subnets each in their own AZ and it mostly only allocates ips in the first AZ
  2. Karpenter should select a subnet with available IPs from all subnets available for EKS. We are facing a issue where subnet from one AZ is running out of IPs
    zakariais on GitHub (aws/karpenter-provider-aws)Nov 2022+58 upvotesAsked for a tool
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