eks-distro VS kind

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.

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.

One of the use cases mentioned here is testing. One should also look at kind [1]. It is light weight, a really good candidate to setup dev environments.

[1] https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/

The nodes here are fake, they won't actually run your software. For CI/CD clusters I would recommend kind (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind).

I have created management cluster on my laptop. It is a Kind cluster. In the management cluster, I have deployed both ClusterAPI (with Kind as infrastructure provider) and Sveltos.

To setup a Kubernetes cluster you can decide if you want to create locally with minikube or kind, or create it in a cloud provider like AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, etc. in their respective platforms for Kubernetes like EKS, GKE, DOKS.

I wanted a little tool to study Kubernetes locally, there are some options, but Kind (Kubernetes In Docker) was my preferred choice, you just need Docker, and you can handle a Kubernetes setup very easily.

You should check out the kind project! It’s a tool for running a local, lightweight Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes”.

Not minikube but I use kind on my M1 mac for hours a day. ( https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/ ) . When I launch a cluster I map the host port with the container port.

Kind