AWS EKS

Setup

1. Create VPC
2. Create EKS cluster (+ EKS-cluster role)
3. Create EKS Kube context (AWS CLI)
4. Create node group + role AmazonEKSWorkerNodePolicy AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryReadOnly AmazonEKS_CNI_Policy AmazonEBSCSIDriverPolicy
5. add EBS CSI storage class

kubectl apply -k aws-eks/storage/csi
kubectl apply -f aws-eks/storage/storage-class

• Security Group

• NLB vs ALB

  • AWS Load Balancer Controller
  • Network Load Balancer - AWS Load Balancer Controller
  • Route internet traffic with AWS Load Balancer Controller - Amazon EKS

• Generic reference

  • AWS EKS Elastic Kubernetes Service - STACKSIMPLIFY

Storage

• High performance

Local Volume Static Provisioner CSI driver using Amazon EKS managed node groups and pre-bootstrap commands to expose the NVMe EC2 instance store drives as Kubernetes PV objects. This allows leveraging the local NVMe storage volumes to achieve higher performance than what’s possible from the general-purpose Amazon EBS boot volume.

• EKS Persistent Volumes for Instance Store | Containers

• General purpose EBS Disks

  • Using Container Storage Interface (CSI)
  • Support dynamic provisioning, no need to create a PV beforehand

  the Pod will only see a PVC object. All the underlying logic dealing with the actual storage technology is implemented by the provisioner the Storage Class object uses.

• Persistent storage for Kubernetes  | AWS Storage Blog