[EKS] [fargate] [request]: Support graviton architecture for fargate nodes spawned by EKS

[mfeldheim]

Currently, there seems to be no way to choose the architecture for fargate nodes spawned by EKS clusters.

This could be configurable in the fargate profile, or even better, transparently by setting the kubernetes.io/arch=arm64 nodeselector in kubernetes deployments

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[radek-yp]

any news on this? was it added to the roadmap?

[jbg]

Got 90% through the way of configuring EKS Fargate today and then realised there's no arm64 support. Didn't even consider that this would be left out! Is there any timeline for this? We dropped x86_64 builds for some services a while ago to simplify CI.

[soloradish]

Got 90% through the way of configuring EKS Fargate today and then realised there's no arm64 support. Didn't even consider that this would be left out! Is there any timeline for this? We dropped x86_64 builds for some services a while ago to simplify CI.

I'm in similer situation. Walked through almost all of CI pipeline settings, but found out there is no support on EKS cluster.

[radek-yp]

Got 90% through the way of configuring EKS Fargate today and then realised there's no arm64 support. Didn't even consider that this would be left out! Is there any timeline for this? We dropped x86_64 builds for some services a while ago to simplify CI.

btw I did the same thing. Went all the way to converting my images to arm64 arch only to find out it's not possible to run them with fargate on EKS :(

[subos2008]

If they can do this and somehow drop the cost for the control plane I could finally move all my personal projects off DigitalOcean and into AWS. (Which I use for all my professional work)

[mhamann]

Yes, the organization I'm working with would really like to have this feature. We can run everything ARM, and such could take advantage of the lower-cost compute. Bummer that it isn't available. :-(

[booleanbetrayal]

We are also 100% ARM compatible, are awaiting this support, and are evaluating switching off Fargate if it isn't supported soon.

[44int]

I was disappointed to learn that arm is not available in Fargate profile.
My development machine is also Arm-based, and I'd like to have it all. In addition, it would be a waste to have CI build both x86 and arm.

[gilbahat]

having access to this could significantly assist in our journey of embracing graviton:
currently our CI/CD system is using managed runners which is extremely convenient, but arm64 runners are not available.
with EKS-fargate-arm64 we could achieve similar fidelity by moving our container builds to EKS using Kaniko from the existing CI workflow without having to maintain and scale runners

[aiell0]

Commenting that I would also like to see this feature as I got 90% of the way to configuring running pods just to see that ARM isn't supported :(

[iancward]

coredns also recently fixed builds for arm and today cut the first release that built arm images.

• Docker Multiarch releases are stuck in v1.8.7 coredns/coredns#5842 (comment)
• https://github.com/coredns/coredns/releases/tag/v1.10.1

Considering coredns is a long-running cluster service, switching it over to graviton/arm would make for easy cost savings.

[jacksonporter]

Commenting that I would also like to see this feature as I got 90% of the way to configuring running pods just to see that ARM isn't supported :(

Same here, would love to see this, as ECS already has it!

[perriea]

Any news ?

[Ant59]

Would love to be able to burst into Fargate ARM fabric within EKS. It would enable some very efficient architectures.

[dzilbermanvmw]

++1 Would love to be able to burst into Fargate ARM fabric with EKS for short term compute intensive tasks.

[Dashing-Nelson]

+1

[levkov]

++1

[visit1985]

Please stop this +1 comments…

[diwap]

I would also like to see this feature soon as we are moving towards graviton

[paddy-bedraggled]

My company would like to see this implemented also

[eugenejen]

My company would like to see this implemented also.

[chepati]

+++1

[prattcmp]

Amazon is really slacking here.

[imhyeons]

A lot of companies in Korea are hesitant to switch arch to FARGATE. just because it doenst support ARM architectures

[booleanbetrayal]

Just to chime in here, we abandoned Fargate for Managed Node Groups and ARM64 was the straw that broke that camel's back.

[alanprot]

+1

[dc2tom]

Disappointed for this one not to appear at re:invent - it just seems so odd for it to have existed happily for ECS for so long to still be missing from EKS.

[Deepak13245]

+1

[nantiferov]

[diwap]

me too

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[visit1985]

@tabern, can you maybe add this to the containers-roadmap project?

[igor9silva]

Even though we are not able to explicit request an ARM node, is it possible to achieve it?

For example using an ARM-only container imagem?

[nantiferov]

We would be glad to see this feature implemented too. Majority of our clusters are Graviton-only and Fargate nodes only kept on amd64 due to this.

[mfeldheim]

Just to chime in here, we abandoned Fargate for Managed Node Groups and ARM64 was the straw that broke that camel's back.

We decided to do the same. Managed node groups have other advantages besides that, we cut out cost in comparison to fargate and pods spin up much faster