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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.

  • "pre-receive hook declined" error while deploying an application to EYK

    Overview You are encountering the pre-receive hook declined error while executing git push to deploy an application to EYK.  Sample error message: Error running git receive hook [The controller return...

  • Upgrading the eyk CLI tool

    Overview This article addresses issues that may present themselves when upgrading the Engine Yard Kontainers (EYK) CLI Tool on Mac an Linux operating systems. The CLI tool has a built-in the capabilit...

  • 'eyk ps' CLI command returns no 'web' processes

    Overview The eyk ps CLI command is returning no 'web' processes while Metrics shows there are 'web' pods running and the web application is also available. This can happen despite having a minimum num...

  • Connecting an app to a Memcached service

    Overview You are unable to connect an EYK hosted app to a Memcached service. This article describes the procedure to connect an EYK hosted app to a Memcached application/service. Solution In order for...

  • How to forcefully terminate a pod

    Overview Customers may want to forcefully terminate/kill a pod rather than wait until the pod self-destructs. A typical scenario where this can happen is terminating pods showing high CPU utilization ...

  • Setting healthchecks for an application

    Overview This article describes how to set healthcheck probes for an application. Healthcheck probes can be useful for preventing the deployment of broken apps to the EYK platform by configuring EYK t...

  • FAQs on Managing Microservices Architecture with EYK

    Overview This article addresses the frequently asked questions on deployment architecture when adopting EYK for containerized deployments of microservices as well as general questions on how to manage...

  • Preventing deployment of broken apps to the EYK platform

    Overview EYK is allowing deployment of a broken app resulting in the Error 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error when end users attempt to open the application URL from a browser. Depending on the...

  • Intermittent "Error 502 Service Temporarily Unavailable" errors following deployment

    Overview Customers may experience a small percentage of intermittent 502 Service Temporarily Unavailable errors after making configuration changes (e.g. changing a configuration variable) and re-deplo...

  • Setting the default browser when using EYK CLI on WSL

    Overview Attempting to log in using eyk ssologincommand or executing eyk open on the EYK CLI tool on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to connect to your application's URL fails to open the applicatio...