Karpenter has a variety of users and use cases for scaling Kubernetes. Many customers want to learn from others who have already implemented Karpenter in their environments.
The following is a self-reported list of users to help identify adoption and points of contact.
If you would like to ask question from the community please join the Karpenter slack channel in the Kubernetes Slack or join the Karpenter working group bi-weekly calls.
If you are using Karpenter please consider adding yourself as a user by opening a pull request to this file. If you are open to others contacting you about your use of Karpenter on Slack, add your Slack name as well.
| Organization | Description | Contacts | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon, Inc. | Scaling production workloads and batch jobs in all AWS regions | @Alex Kestner, @Ellis Tarn |
Introducing Karpenter |
| Airtel Digital Ltd. | Karpenter for all kind of spiky and base workload and to increase spot coverage. | @Sagar Arora |
Homepage |
| Anthropic | Better utilizing mixes of instance types for more reliable capacity | N/A | Homepage |
| AppsFlyer | Managing statefull workloads like Kafka and more | @alicvsroxas @danielvrog |
Homepage |
| Astradot | Using Karpenter on all K8s clusters in production and staging | N/A | Homepage |
| Beeswax | Using Karpenter to scale our high load AdTech platform efficiently | @James Wojewoda |
Homepage |
| Canva | Using Karpetner to scale CPU and GPU workloads on EKS | @groodt |
Canva |
| Cloud Posse, LLC | Karpenter ships out-of-the-box in our Terraform Blueprint for EKS and is offered as part of our comprehensive multi-account AWS reference architecture. Everything is Open Source (APACHE2). | @osterman |
Karpenter : The Cloud Posse Developer Hub |
| Codefresh | Juggling workloads for the SAAS CD/GitOps offering | @Yonatan Koren, @Ilia Medvedev |
Codefresh |
| Conveyor | Using karpenter to scale our customers data pipelines on EKS | @stijndehaes |
Conveyor |
| Cordial | Using Karpenter to scale multiple EKS clusters quickly | @dschaaff |
Cordial |
| Dig Security | Protecting our customers data - Using Karpenter to manage production and development workloads on EKS, We are using only Spot Instances in production. | @Shahar Danus |
Dig Security |
| Docker | Using Karpenter to scale Docker Hub on our EKS clusters | N/A | Docker |
| Grafana Labs | Using Karpenter as our Autoscaling tool on EKS | @paulajulve, @logyball |
Homepage & Blog |
| H2O.ai | Dynamically scaling CPU and GPU nodes for AI workloads | @Ophir Zahavi, @Asaf Oren |
H2O.ai |
| idealo | Scaling multi-arch IPv6 clusters hosting web and event-driven applications | @Heiko Rothe |
Homepage |
| Livspace | Replacement for cluster autoscaler on production and staging EKS clusters | @praveen-livspace |
Homepage |
| Nexxiot | Easier, Safer, Cleaner Global Transportation - Using Karpenter to manage EKS nodes | @Alex Berger |
Homepage |
| Nirvana Money | Building healthy, happy financial lives - Using Karpenter to manage all-Spot clusters | @DWSR |
Homepage |
| OccMundial | Using karpenter to manage our production workloads, using the dynamic scaling according to workload that needs to scale. | @parraletz |
Homepage |
| Omaze | Intelligently using Karpenter's autoscaling to power our platforms | @devopsidiot |
Homepage |
| PITS Global Data Recovery Services | Used to manage continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment workflows. | N/A | PITS Global Data Recovery Services |
| PlanetScale | Leveraging Karpenter to dynamically deploy serverless MySQL workloads. | @jtcunning |
Homepage |
| QuestDB | Using Karpenter for the service nodes of the QuestBD Cloud (time-series database). | questdb slack group | QuestDB |
| Rapid7 | Using Karpenter across all of our Kubernetes infrastructure for efficient autoscaling, both in terms of speed and cost | @arobinson, @Ross Kirk, @Ryan Williams |
Homepage |
| Sendcloud | Using Karpenter to scale our k8s clusters for Europe’s #1 shipping automation platform | N/A | Homepage |
| Sentra | Using Karpenter to scale our EKS clusters, running our platform and workflows while maximizing cost-efficiency with minimal operational overhead | @Roei Jacobovich |
Homepage |
| Stone Pagamentos | Using Karpenter to do smart sizing of our clusters | @fabiano-amaral |
Stone Pagamentos |
| Stytch | Powering the scaling needs of Stytch's authentication and user-management APIs | @Elijah Chanakira, @Ovadia Harary |
Homepage |
| Superbexperience | Using Karpenter to scale the k8s clusters running our Guest Experience Management platform | @Wernich Bekker |
Homepage |
| Target Australia | Using Karpenter to manage (scale, auto update etc) the containerised (EKS) compute that powers much of the Target Online platform | @gazal-k |
Target Australia Online Shopping |
| The Scale Factory | Using Karpenter (controllers on EC2/Fargate) to efficiently scale K8s workloads and empowering our customer teams to do the same | @marko |
Homepage |
| Tyk Cloud | Scaling workloads for the Cloud Free plan | @Artem Hluvchynskyi, @gowtham |
Tyk Cloud |
| Wehkamp | Using Karpenter to scale the EKS clusters for our e-commerce platforms | @ChrisV |
Wehkamp & Wehkamp Techblog |
| Next Insurance | Using Karpenter to manage the nodes in all our EKS clusters, including dev and prod, on demand and spots | @moshebs |
Homepage |
| Grover Group GmbH | We use Karpenter for efficient and cost effective scaling of our nodes in all of our EKS clusters | @suraj2410 |
Homepage & Engineering Techblog |
| Logz.io | Using Karpenter in all of our EKS clusters for efficient and cost effective scaling of all our K8s workloads | @pincher95, @Samplify |
Homepage |