This blog describes how create multi-node kubernetes clusters and deploy an application on Amazon EKS. In this blog we will walk through how to setup kubectl and eksctl on workstations and from there we can use one line command to create an EKS Cluster.

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes(Amazon EKS)

ubernetes is a container orchestration system from Google and has emerged as the platform of choice for deploying cloud-native applications. Kubernetes is a versatile tool for automating and simplifying your container workflow that gives you limitless scalability at a moment’s notice.

Amazon EKS is a fully managed  Kubernetes service. Customers such as Intel, Snap, Intuit, GoDaddy, and Autodesk trust EKS to run their most sensitive and mission critical applications because of its security, reliability, and scalability.

Benefits of Amazon EKS

1. Control Plane Monitoring: With Amazon EKS there’s no need to install, operate, or maintain your own Kubernetes control plane. EKS removes the need to architect high availability and scalability for your master nodes, so administrators can focus on their cluster and workloads.
2. High Availability: EKS runs the Kubernetes management infrastructure across multiple AWS Availability Zones, automatically detects and replaces unhealthy control plane nodes, and provides on-demand, zero downtime upgrades and patching.
3. Security: EKS automatically applies the latest security patches to your cluster control plane. AWS also works closely with the community to ensure critical security issues are addressed before new releases and patches are deployed to existing cluster
4. Serverless Option: EKS supports AWS Fargate to provide serverless compute for containers. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design.
5. Build with Community: EKS runs upstream Kubernetes and is certified Kubernetes conformant, so applications managed by EKS are fully compatible with applications managed by any standard Kubernetes environment. AWS actively works with the Kubernetes community, including making contributions to the Kubernetes code base that help you take advantage of AWS services and features.

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