Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is an AWS-managed service for running Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads.
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed AWS service for running Kubernetes clusters.
- How it is used
- Deploys containerized applications onto AWS-managed Kubernetes infrastructure after images reach ECR.
- How deep it goes
- Explains the deployment workflow through YAML, image permissions, pods, services, and load balancing without detailing cluster creation.
- Examples
- Uses an ITAM container, deployment manifest, ECR image URI, IAM pull policy, and LoadBalancer service.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure a container deployment by connecting ECR images, Kubernetes manifests, IAM permissions, pods, and external services.
Effective Platform Engineering
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is a managed service for running Kubernetes control planes and workloads on AWS.
- How it is used
- Establishes an AWS Kubernetes control-plane foundation through an isolated platform-engineering pipeline.
- How deep it goes
- Defines managed components, Terraform modules, and validation tests, but stops short of detailing vendor-managed internals.
- Examples
- Uses Terraform modules, AWS resource tests, and Bats checks for nodes, namespaces, bindings, and cluster add-ons.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch with Terraform and validate its AWS-managed base through automated infrastructure and cluster checks.
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Related concepts
- Kuberneteskind of · Kubernetes is an open-source platform for orchestrating and automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized workloads across computing clusters.
- GKE on AWScontrasts with · GKE on AWS is Google's managed Kubernetes distribution that runs cluster control and worker components on Amazon Web Services infrastructure.
- Kubernetes Enginealternative to · Google Kubernetes Engine is Google Cloud’s managed service for running Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads.
- AWS-managed node groupused by · An AWS-managed node group is a set of Amazon EKS worker nodes whose provisioning and lifecycle management are handled by AWS.
- Amazon Elastic Compute Clouduses · Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is an Amazon Web Services service that provides resizable virtual computing capacity through configurable virtual machine instances.
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