Amazon EKS Nodegroup (NG)

wikipedia:AWS Nodegroup Amazon EKS managed node groups automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of nodes (Amazon EC2 instances).

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/managed-node-groups.html

Commands

• aws eks create-nodegroup
• eksctl create nodegroup
• eksctl upgrade nodegroup
• eksctl get nodegroup

Terraform

• Terraform EKS resources
• Terraform EKS module: eks_managed_node_groups, self_managed_node_groups

Errors

InvalidParameterException: desiredSize is not valid

Cloudformation

• Cloudformation: AWS::EKS::Nodegroup

Related

• Amazon EKS nodes
• Managed Node Groups (MNG), EKS managed node group and self managed node group
• Kubernetes Node controller
• EKS Nodegroup
• node.kubernetes.io/lifecycle=spot
• AWS Auto Scaling Groups (ASG)
• GKE Node Pool

News

• 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

• Amazon EKS Nodegroup: [ create-nodegroup | create nodegroup | upgrade nodegroup | get nodegroup ]
• eksctl create [ cluster | fargateprofile | iamidentitymapping | iamserviceaccount | nodegroup ], eksctl create cluster --help
• EKS Nodegroup, Managed Node Groups (MNG), eksctl upgrade nodegroup, aws eks [ list-nodegroups | describe-nodegroup | update-nodegroup-version | create nodegroup ]

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