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.

Important Variables

Example