120 Days of AWS EKS in Staging

Felix Georgii wakeboarding at Wake Crane Project in Pula, Croatia on September 25, 2016

My journey with Kubernetes started with Google Kubernetes Engine then one year later with self managed kuberntes and then with migration to Amazon EKS.

EKS as a managed kubernetes cluster is not 100% managed. Core tools didn’t work as expcted. Customers expectation was not aligned with functions provided. Here I have summarized all our experience we gained by running EKS cluster in Staging.

To run EKS you still have to:

  • Prepare network layer: VPC, subnets, firewalls…
  • Install worker nodes
  • Periodically apply security patches on workers nodes
  • Monitor worker nodes health by install node problem detector and monitoring stack
  • Setup security groups and NACLs
  • and more
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