Kubernetes¶

TLDR¶

Kubernetes in AWS. ECS Default options are not Kubernetes, but AWS own tech.

Options¶

Managed Node Groups¶

• Creates EC2 instances for you
• ASG managed by EKS
• Supports on demand and spot instances

Self Managed¶

• EC2 are created by the user and registered to the cluster
• Can use prebuild EKS optimized AMi.
• Supports on demand or spot instances.

Fargate¶

• No nodes, instances, or maintenance required

Data volumes¶

• Leverages a Container storage interface (CSI) compliant driver.
• Need to specify storage class
• EBS (for EC2 version only)
• EFS (works with Fargate)
• FSxLustre
• FSx for NetApp ONETAP

Authentication¶

• Need a config map to map IAM to Kubernetes RBAC System (is automatically created)