Kubernetes on AWS: Practices & Opinions

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EKS offers a managed control plane (EKS) where masters run in AWS and worker nodes stay in customer accounts; AWS promises an upstream‑compatible API and deep AWS integrations (CNI plugin, CloudWatch, CloudTrail). Community tools include kube‑aws/cops for HA clusters, and kube2iam/kube‑iam as a kube2iam daemonset pattern to give pods IAM roles. Zalando runs about 50 clusters (one per AWS account), provisions everything with CloudFormation-driven provisioning, uses immutable node replacement, flannel, daemonsets for Fluentd and Prometheus metrics, and a cluster registry + watcher to automate updates.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:57Kubernetes cluster setup
3. 4:48Manage a Kubernetes cluster
4. 6:43Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes
5. 15:05Setup with CloudFormation
6. 15:31Base setup
7. 17:44AWS Identity and Access Management
8. 19:51IAM role for Pods
9. 22:54AWS IAM
10. 31:13Monitoring setup
11. 31:46Application monitoring
12. 33:10Closing remarks

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