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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.

  • Configure Environment Variables with the Kontainers Web Console

    Overview You can add, modify, or remove Environment Variables from your Engine Yard Kontainers applications using the EYK Web Console. After saving changes to an application's Environment Variables, t...

  • Managing Applications in Kontainers Web Console

    Overview The Kontainers Web console provides a web interface where you can manage all of the applications you have deployed. This article will introduce you to the Kontainers Web Console and the Appli...

  • Migrating from Engine Yard Cloud to Kontainers

    Overview If you are currently using Engine Yard Cloud (EYC) to deploy your Rails application, Engine Yard Kontainers (EYK) can greatly improve auto-scaling for your application, reduce costs, and impr...

  • Deploy an Application with Kontainers

    Overview This article demonstrates how to deploy a Ruby on Rails application with EYK. The process involves creating a Cluster, configuring the Dockerfile and Procfile in your project, and pushing you...

  • How Kontainers Works

    Overview In this article, you will learn about the various components which make up Engine Yard Kontainers (EYK). This includes information on the EYK architecture and how the various components inter...

  • Introduction to Engine Yard Kontainers

    Overview Engine Yard Kontainers (EYK) Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides Ruby developers a unified cloud solution that automates application deployment and scaling using container technology. EYK i...

  • Kibana Application Logging

    Introduction Common tasks tied to the application deployment and configuration within a cluster are: git push eyk eyk config:set Both will report a success or failure message back to the user as an ou...

  • Preparing and Deploying an application to EYK using a Docker image

    Overview Step-by-step instructions for building an image to provide for deployment in eyk via eyk builds:create. Solution These are the main steps for preparing and deploying an application to the EYK...

  • Alert Rules and Notifications

    Grafana ships with built-in support for a number of data sources including CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana datasource for Prometheus Alertmanager, just to mention a few. Prometheus is an open-source s...

  • Creating custom app-level or pod-level Grafana alerts/notifications

    Overview You would like to create a custom Grafana alert/notification for a specific app or on a specific app pod to monitor memory usage, for example, you would like an alert when your 'web' pod reac...