cdk8s VS terraform-aws-eks-blueprints

Any, it doesn’t matter which as long as you don’t have to count spaces in yaml by hand.

If you really want a concrete recommendation try https://cdk8s.io/.

CDK8s - CDK8s is used to define Kubernetes resources and applications. CDK8s uses the high-level abstraction concept called constructs to represent various Kubernetes resources such as deployments, services, and configurations. Developers can write code in programming languages like TypeScript, Python, and Java, and CDK8s will translate this code into standard Kubernetes YAML manifests that can be directly applied to a Kubernetes cluster.

Have you looked into https://cdk8s.io/? I've been using it for a while now, and I must admit TypeSript does help a lot. Not really sold on your React syntax yet, but well done nevertheless

I, personally, prefer to wrap it in CDKTF/CDK8S in golang and manage with Crossplane Composition Functions, but your mileage may vary. I'm finding way too bugs in CDK's... but it calms me a bit, that Amazon folks actually looking into it.

Have you looked into cdk8s? That will let you get away from dealing with yaml and let you use code instead. Helm included.

My favorite is cdk8s + typescript.

What about https://cdk8s.io/?

Have you checked out this repo https://github.com/aws-ia/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints

Now that you have the networking part done, you can build configurations for the EKS cluster and its add-ons. You will use the terraform-aws-modules to create the EKS cluster and eks_blueprints module from terraform-aws-eks-blueprintsto configure EKS add-ons.

## (https://github.com/aws-ia/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints) ## ... [other Terraform code] ## Cluster Configuration module "eks" { # ... [other configuration] self_managed_node_groups = { gpu_node_group = { node_group_name = "gpu-node-group" ami_type = "AL2_x86_64_GPU" capacity_type = "ON_DEMAND" instance_types = [ "g4dn.xlarge", "g4dn.2xlarge", ] # ... [other configuration] taints = { dedicated = { key = "nvidia.com/gpu" value = "true" effect = "NO_SCHEDULE" } } # ... [other configuration] } } }

Here is the link: https://github.com/aws-ia/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints/blob/main/examples/karpenter/main.tf

Anyone using eks blueprints or cloudposse's module?

Take a look at the EKS Blueprints for Terraform as a place to start. I know the team is working on their v5 release which should be a solid improvement. https://github.com/aws-ia/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints/milestone/1

Take a look at the EKS Blueprints for Terraform v5 rewrite for more details. However, EKS Blueprints for Terraform (v4 as it is today) is pretty darn good _if_ you just want to manage basic charst like load balancer controller and Karpenter. It provisions IAM Roles and Policies along with Helm charts all in one easy set-up. It's just not something I'd want to touch with more complex use cases and we'll see how the EKS Blueprints team does with the v5 rewrite - their direction looks reasonable, but Terraform just isn't really designed for the problem it's trying to solve there, so it's going to be somewhat clunky one way or another.