From 75db458caf7298414e0885fd4e3d48a434285781 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tolleiv Nietsch Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 15:09:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Adopt EKS --- radar/2021-01-01/eks.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 radar/2021-01-01/eks.md diff --git a/radar/2021-01-01/eks.md b/radar/2021-01-01/eks.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6eb4bd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/radar/2021-01-01/eks.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: "Amazon EKS" +ring: adopt +quadrant: platforms-and-aoe-services + +--- + +[Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service](https://aws.amazon.com/de/eks/) (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to stand up or maintain your own Kubernetes control plane or workloads. +Amazon EKS runs Kubernetes control plane instances across multiple Availability Zones to ensure high availability. +It also provides automated version upgrades and patching for them. + +Amazon EKS is fully supported by Terraform which brings the advantage that its configuration is written in code, +which fulfils the infrastructure as code philosophy. Amazon has also implemented important (security) features to their service to ensure that Amazon EKS is well integrated into the broader AWS landscape. Kubernetes version upgrades and security patches are provided in a reliable schedule and with proper documentation. Alongside with the managed service, Amazons also provides it's own [EKS distribution](https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/opensource/introducing-amazon-eks-distro/) while closes the gap for on-premise installations. + +Different Amazon EKS Clusters are in use on a variety of environments like development, integration, testing and production. +We experienced that Kubernetes version updates are done without major efforts or impact to the running cluster. \ No newline at end of file From 10012df9537c05f4313c2a24cd0739cca709e8c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tolleiv Nietsch Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 11:49:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Extension #1 --- radar/2021-01-01/eks.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/radar/2021-01-01/eks.md b/radar/2021-01-01/eks.md index 6eb4bd3..859adb2 100644 --- a/radar/2021-01-01/eks.md +++ b/radar/2021-01-01/eks.md @@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ Amazon EKS is fully supported by Terraform which brings the advantage that its c which fulfils the infrastructure as code philosophy. Amazon has also implemented important (security) features to their service to ensure that Amazon EKS is well integrated into the broader AWS landscape. Kubernetes version upgrades and security patches are provided in a reliable schedule and with proper documentation. Alongside with the managed service, Amazons also provides it's own [EKS distribution](https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/opensource/introducing-amazon-eks-distro/) while closes the gap for on-premise installations. Different Amazon EKS Clusters are in use on a variety of environments like development, integration, testing and production. -We experienced that Kubernetes version updates are done without major efforts or impact to the running cluster. \ No newline at end of file +We experienced that Kubernetes version updates are done without major efforts or impact to the running cluster. Along with that, using EKS avoids a lot of low-level optimization and component management which were required in manually configured clusters. \ No newline at end of file From a0a7e51c73b7c819b57691a316af3c5950f78042 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=C3=B6tzinger?= Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 15:14:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Update eks.md --- radar/2021-01-01/eks.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/radar/2021-01-01/eks.md b/radar/2021-01-01/eks.md index 859adb2..f09a003 100644 --- a/radar/2021-01-01/eks.md +++ b/radar/2021-01-01/eks.md @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ quadrant: platforms-and-aoe-services Amazon EKS runs Kubernetes control plane instances across multiple Availability Zones to ensure high availability. It also provides automated version upgrades and patching for them. -Amazon EKS is fully supported by Terraform which brings the advantage that its configuration is written in code, -which fulfils the infrastructure as code philosophy. Amazon has also implemented important (security) features to their service to ensure that Amazon EKS is well integrated into the broader AWS landscape. Kubernetes version upgrades and security patches are provided in a reliable schedule and with proper documentation. Alongside with the managed service, Amazons also provides it's own [EKS distribution](https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/opensource/introducing-amazon-eks-distro/) while closes the gap for on-premise installations. +Amazon EKS is fully supported by [Terraform](https://www.aoe.com/techradar/platforms-and-aoe-services/terraform.html) which brings the advantage that its configuration is written in code, +which fulfils the [infrastructure as code](https://www.aoe.com/techradar/platforms-and-aoe-services/infrastructure-as-code.html) philosophy. Amazon has also implemented important (security) features to their service to ensure that Amazon EKS is well integrated into the broader AWS landscape. Kubernetes version upgrades and security patches are provided in a reliable schedule and with proper documentation. Alongside with the managed service, Amazons also provides it's own [EKS distribution](https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/opensource/introducing-amazon-eks-distro/) which closes the gap for on-premise installations. Different Amazon EKS Clusters are in use on a variety of environments like development, integration, testing and production. -We experienced that Kubernetes version updates are done without major efforts or impact to the running cluster. Along with that, using EKS avoids a lot of low-level optimization and component management which were required in manually configured clusters. \ No newline at end of file +We experienced that Kubernetes version updates are done without major efforts or impact to the running cluster. Along with that, using EKS avoids a lot of low-level optimization and component management which were required in manually configured clusters in the past.