Relates to Container

AWS Managed Kubernetes (K8S)

Control plane can scale, runs on multiple AZs.

  • Integrates with AWS Services ECR, ELB, AWS IAM, VPC
  • EKS Cluster = EKS Control Plane+ EKS Node
  • etcd managed in AWS, distributed cross AZ
  • Nodes - Self Manged, Managed Nodes groups or Fargate
    • You must check which node type suits your needs more
  • Storage – can be AWS EBS, EFS, FSx Lusture/for NetAPP ONTAP

EKS connects to worker nodes in managed node group, either via ENI injection or EKS Public control plane endpoint