EKS

Elastic Kubernetes Service: use Kubernete on AWS

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Overview

  • Alternative of ECS, similar goal but different API.

  • Kubernetes is open-source system for automatic deployment, scaling and management.

How it works

Use cases

  • Already using Kubernetes on-premises or in another cloud.

Node types

  • Managed node group

  • Self-managed nodes

Data volumes

  • EBS

  • EFS (work with Fargate)

  • FSx for Lustre

  • FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

Security

  • Turn on secretes encryption (using KMS) to encrypt Kubernetes secrets.

  • The KMS key will be created in the same region as your cluster.

  • Cannot modify or remove encryption once enabled.

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