eks-distro
Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) is a Kubernetes distribution based on and used by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to create reliable and secure Kubernetes clusters. (by aws)
gardener
Kubernetes-native system managing the full lifecycle of conformant Kubernetes clusters as a service on Alicloud, AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, vSphere, KubeVirt, Hetzner, EquinixMetal, MetalStack, and OnMetal with minimal TCO. (by gardener)
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| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
eks-distro
Posts with mentions or reviews of eks-distro.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-12.
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Using Amazon’s Kubernetes Distribution Everywhere with Amazon EKS Distro
EKS Distro is an open source project on GitHub. You can check out the repository at this link. https://github.com/aws/eks-distro/
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Cubernetes
I work on EKS Anywhere and familiar with those options but my answer will be biased
EKS Anywhere provides a CLI, packaged Cluster API, and other tools (CNI, GitOps) on top of raw Kubernetes. K8s, k3s, k0s are binaries you have to manage and are similar to EKS Distro [1] which we publish and build on top of.
EKS Anywhere is designed to give you clusters you can manage long term using Cluster API and a full suite of tools for how we thing Kubernetes clusters should be run based on our experience running EKS. It is a closer comparison to Rancher's RKE or VMware Tanzu for provisioning clusters, but some features and implementation details are different.
1: https://distro.eks.amazonaws.com/
- EKS is phasing out LoadBalancer type, what does this mean?
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EKS Anywhere: The What, The Why and The How
EKS Anywhere builds on the strengths of Amazon EKS Distro, the same open-source distribution of Kubernetes that is used by Amazon EKS on the cloud, thus fostering consistency and compatibility between clusters both on AWS as well as on-premises.
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Amazon EKS Anywhere
yes im aware of bmctl. however you dont have control over the kubernetes distro that's running.
is there anything similar to https://github.com/aws/eks-distro ?
EKS-A focuses on cluster management for HA environments. By default we use 3 etcd nodes, 2 control plane nodes, and 3 worker nodes. It uses cilium as the default CNI and Cluster API controllers for continual cluster state management. It has some optional configuration for a flux controller and OIDC authentication but it doesn't add default services or workloads. EKS-A also uses EKS Distro which is the open source Kubernetes distribution we run in hosted EKS.
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EKS or not?
Well almost... announcement and GitHub issue
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EKS Anywhere & Disaster Recovery
EKS Anywhere is not released. It is “coming soon” and is based on EKS Distro. Distro is OSS. Anywhere will be supported at GA release.
gardener
Posts with mentions or reviews of gardener.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-10.
- Introducing Gardener, your ultimate companion for effortless Kubernetes cluster management!
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How does managed kubernetes providers hide the control plane?
Now, if you want to dig further on how cloud providers operate, like I said, most are actually using Kubernetes to automate the client control plane management. There is a cloud-neutral project for this out there called Gardener, they have a few architecture documents which explain the concept a bit further. In their garden metaphor, the seed cluster hosts the client control planes, and the shoot clusters are the client clusters (which are only made of worker nodes, no control-plane node). Another more specialized implementation is Kubernikus for OpenStack.
- Where can I find managed K8s for the price of managed ECS?
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Alternative to Rancher as a multi-cluster management platform?
Gardener: https://github.com/gardener/gardener RH HyperShift: https://github.com/openshift/hypershift
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Can we use a worker node of one kubernetes cluster as master node of another k8s cluster?
Gardener does exactly that. One global cluster manages smaller per-region/cloud provider management clusters and those will contain the control planes of your workload clusters. This way you can have like 10 000 clusters and not deal with multi-tenant issues. One workload = 1 cluster.
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Over a fifty K8s clusters?
We had cluster of cluster style management managing 100s of cluster. Check out https://github.com/gardener/gardener for an inspiration
- Why aren't there any manged Kubernetes Control Plane as a Service offering out there?
- Datenschutz: SAP und Arvato bauen Verwaltungs-Cloud mit Microsoft-Technik
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Amazon EKS Anywhere
How does this compare against simply using Gardener [0]?
[0] https://github.com/gardener/gardener
What are some alternatives?
When comparing eks-distro and gardener you can also consider the following projects:
eks-anywhere - Run Amazon EKS on your own infrastructure 🚀
terraformer - CLI tool to generate terraform files from existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform). Infrastructure to Code