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Amazon EKS

Managed Kubernetes service.

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Overview

Elastic Kubernetes Service runs the Kubernetes control plane for you, integrating with IAM, VPC CNI, ALB Controller, and Fargate.

When to use it

  • Existing Kubernetes investment
  • Multi-cloud / portable workloads
  • Need rich K8s ecosystem (Argo, Istio, Helm)

Setup

  1. Use `eksctl create cluster` or Terraform.
  2. Configure kubectl: `aws eks update-kubeconfig --name my-cluster`.
  3. Install ALB Controller, External DNS, Cluster Autoscaler / Karpenter.

How to use

Deploy
kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml

QA use cases

  • Run Testkube or Argo Workflows on EKS to execute large parallel test suites.
  • Spin up ephemeral namespaces per PR for end-to-end testing.