AWS EKS

It creates:

• VPC
• AWS EKS cluster
  • aws loadbalancer controller: listens for service type LoadBalancer and creates ALB. Used to create ALB on top on nginx controller
  • vpc cni: created via addon, used to provide networking via AWS subnet
  • cert manager: automatically creates certificates via Let's Encrypt
  • ebs csi driver: manages PVC for EBS volume
  • efs csi driver: manages PVC for EFS volume
  • external dns: listens ingress and create Route53 records pointing on nginx controller ALB
  • fluent bit: forward k8s logs to cloudwatch
  • nginx ingress controller: redirect traffic to the right service
  • metrics-server: collects CPU/memory metrics used by pod HPA
  • prometheus: monitors the Kubernetes cluster

How use kubectl ?

Check pipeline access job

aws eks --region ${AWS_DEFAULT_REGION} update-kubeconfig  --name ${CLUSTER_NAME}

How to access the ingress-controller ?

via the AWS ALB