BlogAgentic AI on EKS — Migrating Builds from Kaniko to BuildKitValidating BuildKit as a Kaniko replacement on EKS. Rootless mode fails on Auto Mode nodes, but privileged mode delivers 25-52% faster builds with a 3-stage initContainers pattern.March 23, 20265 min readinfrastructure#eks#kubernetes#buildkit+2
TILBuildKit rootless doesn't work on EKS Auto Modemax_user_namespaces=0 prevents user namespace creation, causing rootless mode to fail. Privileged mode is the workaround.March 23, 20261 min read#eks#buildkit#kubernetes