Using EKS Auto Mode, deploying stateful and stateless applications

Overview AWS recently introduced EKS Auto mode which seems to be a game changer. It exptends the responsibility of AWS from managing control plane components to managing the data plane - nodes. With EKS auto mode EKS users can shift their focus more towards application development, rather than managing individual nodes. Prerequisites Make sure to have terraform installed as the processes described in this guide are based on terraform Terraform (latest version) AWS CLI (configured with credentials for your AWS account) kubectl (for interacting with the EKS cluster) Creating cluster in EKS auto mode Using the EKS terraform module to create a cluster with EKS auto mode is as easy as it sounds. ...

February 21, 2025 · 3 min

Terraform EKS with Karpenter, Graviton, and Spot Instances

Overview This repository contains Terraform code to deploy an EKS cluster on AWS, utilizing Karpenter for efficient node autoscaling. The cluster supports both x86 (amd64) and Graviton (arm64) architectures. Additionally, the configuration leverages Spot Instances for cost efficiency and includes a demonstration deployment for users to test the setup. Prerequisites Before using this Terraform repository, ensure you have the following installed: Terraform (latest version) AWS CLI (configured with credentials for your AWS account) kubectl (for interacting with the EKS cluster) It needs to be made sure that service-linked role is created for creation of spot instances. It can be created with command. ...

December 15, 2024 · 3 min