AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) (Jun 2018 ) is a managed Kubernetes solution for running containers available in AWS cloud platform since June 2018 . EKS can be managed using Jenkins X software . Other AWS services for running containers are ECS or Fargate.

By default EKS provides 3 master nodes and 3 etcd nodes, but are invisible to you and Amazon is responsible of Autoscaling them when needed.

Topics

• Amazon EKS authorization
• Amazon EKS cluster endpoint
• AWS EKS Cluster Identity Provider Configuration
• AWS EKS Addons: aws-ebs-csi-driver
• Amazon EKS nodes
• EKS versions
• EKS single sign-on using AWS SSO

Installation

• helm repo add eks https://aws.github.io/eks-charts
• Create your first EKS Cluster using AWS Management Console
• Deploy EKS cluster using Terraform

• Helm charts:
  • EKS repo: aws-for-fluent-bit, aws-cloudwatch-metrics
  • aws-ebs-csi-driver repo: aws-ebs-csi-driver

Costs

• EKS is not included in AWS Free Tier, usually running an EKS cluster is more expensive than ECS for small deployments.
• AWS charges $0.10 per hour for each EKS cluster (aprox $72 per month). https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=c9a2b153ce184659c1353bf959ebc47ba3af916a

Related:

• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) offers free trial Kubernetes service.
• AWS EC2

Activities

• Create your first EKS Cluster: Deploy EKS cluster using Terraform
• Read GitLab integration with EKS: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/09/gitlab-eks-integration-how-to/
• Read: AWS EKS getting starting guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html
• StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/amazon-eks?tab=Votes

Related

• AWS EKS Anywhere
• Amazon EKS cluster role
• AWS Bottlerocket
• Terraform EKS
• Network policy: Calico add-on https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/calico.html
• EKS add-ons
• Amazon EKS Workshop: https://www.eksworkshop.com/
• EKS Best Practices Guides
• Tencent Kubernetes Engine (TKE)
• Kustomize
• kubectl version --short
• Self-managed nodes
• EKS logging
• fargate-scheduler

News

• Nov 2022 EKS v1.20 deprecated.
• May 2022 Amazon EKS console now supports all standard Kubernetes resources
• Mar 2022 EKS v1.23 Amazon EBS CSI driver
• Aug 2020 launch template and custom AMI support in Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/introducing-launch-template-and-custom-ami-support-in-amazon-eks-managed-node-groups/
• Nov 2019 EKS Managed node groups

See also

• eksctl [ info | create cluster | get cluster | delete cluster | version | utils describe-stacks | upgrade ], eksctl create cluster --help, eksctl --help
• EKS, eksctl, EKS add-ons, Amazon EKS cluster role, Terraform EKS, Kubernetes Autoscaler, Karpenter, Terraform module: EKS, Terraform resource: aws eks node group, Terraform data source: aws_eks_cluster, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes, AWS Load Balancer Controller, Amazon EKS Anywhere, Kustomize, aws-iam-authenticator, ACK, tEKS, Amazon EKS authorization, Amazon EKS authentication, Nodegroup, EKS storage, aws-ebs-csi-driver, aws-efs-csi-driver, aws-load-balancer-controller, amazon-vpc-cni-k8s, EKS security, EKS Best Practices Guides, hardeneks, EKS versions, fargate-scheduler, eks-connector, Resilience in Amazon EKS, EKS control plane logging
• AWS EKS:AWS::EKS, aws eks [ create-cluster | list-clusters | describe-cluster | update-kubeconfig | list-updates | list-addons | update-cluster-version | update-nodegroup-version | get-token | create-addon ]

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-now-generally-available/

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/DevOps/Kubernetes/EKS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/continuous-delivery-eks-jenkins-x/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/05/amazon-eks-console-supports-standard-kubernetes-resources-cluster-management/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-eks-adds-support-for-provisioning-and-managing-kubernetes-worker-nodes/