AWS EKS

aws-eks.md

AWS EKS

EKS Management Options

1. Standard

• Control plane managed by AWS including storage and scaling
• Data layer managed by user
• Full control over underlying architecture of workers
• More responsibility, such as scaling and lifecyle automation

2. Auto Mode

• Control plane and worker nodes managed by AWS
• Manages cluster and day-to-day operations
• More streamlined, less responsibility
• Ideal for smaller teams or teams with minimal Kubernetes knowledge
• Fewer features and customization

The EKS Control Plane

• Manage state of the overall infrastructure

EKS Control Plan Components

1. The API Server (kube-apiserver): communication between clusters
2. etcd - distributed key-value storage to store state of clusters
3. Scheduler: pods -> nodes
4. Kubenetes Controller Manager: keep components in their desired state

EKS Worker Nodes

Node Groups

• Managed Node Groups: Provision and managed by EKS: updating, health, replacement, provisioned as part of auto scaling groups, can use customized launch templates
• Self Managed: node groups provisioned by the user, allows for customization of the underling system, can use auto scaling groups

AWS Fargate

• Serverless worker nodes
• Handles: server type, auto scale, other configuration
• User only need to define Fargate profile, namespace, execution role

EKS networking

Pod Networking

EKS Access and Permissions

Integrate with IAM

EKS Communication

EKS Permission

Creating EKS Cluster

Permissions

Cluster Role

Node Role

Addons