/terraform-aws-eks-cluster

This is Terraform module to provision managed K8s (Elastic Kubernetes Service) service for AWS

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terraform-aws-eks-cluster

This is Terraform module to provision managed K8s (Elastic Kubernetes Service) service for AWS

Capabilities of this Module

  • This module provide facility to create EKS based on name pattern of VPC and subnets(for more information refer following)
  • Maintainability and Readability - Make AWS resources more readable when navigating in AWS console. This became more useful when your AWS account has lot of resources.
  • Improved Security - Provide improved security by enforcing worker nodes in private subnets
  • Tracking - Attach predefined tags to AWS resources. These tags play major role in tracking resources for
    • Monitoring tools like Datadog,New Relic.. (depends heavily on tags
    • Cost
  • Cost Control - Facility to run Worker nodes as **managed worker nodes** and on fargate
  • Operational Benefits -
    • Run worker nodes as managed worker node. it takes care of various heavy lifting jobs by AWS.
    • Execute Spikes,short living tx on Fargate
  • Facility to provide Addon for EKS
  • IAM Role for Service account (IRSA) for openid

Dependencies and Prerequisites

  • Terraform version 0.12 and higher
  • AWS account
  • AWS CLI
  • AWS VPC based on module available at

Please note

  • This module heavily depends on VPC module mentioned above and VPC must be present before working with this module.
  • This module is not supporting customer managed node groups as it has some operational challenges.

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