This is Terraform module to provision managed K8s (Elastic Kubernetes Service) service for AWS
- 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
- Terraform version 0.12 and higher
- AWS account
- AWS CLI
- AWS VPC based on module available at
- 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.
