EKS Blueprints is a collection of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules that will help you configure and deploy consistent, batteries-included EKS clusters across accounts and regions. It is available in both Terraform and CDK.
There are 3 core concepts in EKS Blueprints which perfectly matches the design of a Shared Services Platform (SSP) for Kubernetes.
| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Cluster | An Amazon EKS Cluster and associated worker groups. |
| Add-on | Operational software that provides key functionality to support your Kubernetes applications. |
| Team | A logical grouping of IAM identities that have access to Kubernetes |
In a typical SSP environment, the platform team is responsible for managing the platform foundation which includes the Kubernetes cluster and all sorts of operational tools (normally referred as add-ons). As platform service consumers, the application teams only need to focus on their own applications without worrying about the availability, security and capacity of underlying infrastructure.
I have created the eks-blueprints-demo repository to demonstrate how to quickly bootstrap a new EKS cluster by using EKS Blueprints for Terraform or CDK. Detailed usages can be found in the repository.
References:
https://github.com/aws-ia/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints
https://github.com/aws-ia/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints-addons
https://github.com/aws-ia/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints-teams
https://github.com/aws-samples/cdk-eks-blueprints-patterns
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