Getting Started

To get started with Karpenter, the Getting Started with Karpenter guide provides an end-to-end procedure for creating a cluster (with eksctl) and adding Karpenter.

See the AKS Node autoprovisioning article on how to use Karpenter on Azure’s AKS or go to the Karpenter provider for Azure open source repository for self-hosting on Azure and additional information.

If you prefer, the following instructions use Terraform to create a cluster and add Karpenter:

• Amazon EKS Blueprints for Terraform: Follow a basic Getting Started guide and also add modules and add-ons. This includes a Karpenter add-on that lets you bypass the instructions in this guide for setting up Karpenter.

Although not supported, you could also try Karpenter on other Kubernetes distributions running on AWS. For example:

• kOps: These instructions describe how to create a kOps Kubernetes cluster in AWS that includes Karpenter.

Learn more about Karpenter and how to get started below.

• Karpenter EKS Best Practices guide
• EC2 Spot Workshop for Karpenter
• EKS Karpenter Workshop
• Advanced EKS Immersion Karpenter Workshop
• Karpenter Blueprints
• Tutorial: Run Kubernetes Clusters for Less with Amazon EC2 Spot and Karpenter