Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications using Kubernetes. By seamlessly integrating with AWS's vast infrastructure and services, EKS abstracts away the complexities of node provisioning, patching, and updates. This ensures developers and DevOps teams can concentrate on application development without the overhead of cluster management. With EKS, businesses benefit from the robustness and scalability of Kubernetes, coupled with the security, reliability, and performance standards of AWS, making it an ideal choice for those looking to run Kubernetes workloads in the cloud.
Orchestration systems decide where and when workloads run on a cluster of machines (physical or virtual). On top of that, orchestration systems usually help manage the lifecycle of the workloads running on them. Nowadays, these systems are usually used to orchestrate containers, with the most popular one being Kubernetes.
There are many advantages to using Orchestration tools:
Our experience with AWS EKS has allowed us to accumulate the knowledge, tools, plans, and processes that enable achieving high quality setups quickly.
Some of the things we did include: