terraform-aws-eks-blueprints VS cdk-eks-blueprints

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.

EKS Blueprints is a collection of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules that will help you configure and deploy EKS clusters across accounts and regions. You can use EKS Blueprints to easily bootstrap an EKS cluster with Amazon EKS add-ons as well as a wide range of popular open-source add-ons, including Prometheus, Karpenter, Nginx, Traefik, AWS Load Balancer Controller, Fluent Bit, Keda, Argo CD, and more. EKS Blueprints also helps you implement relevant security controls needed to operate workloads from multiple teams in the same cluster.

Super summarizing about the new-ish AWS CDK EKS Blueprints. That topic seems very hot and very promising to be a nice abstraction on top of K8S. Unlucky I am more on the serverless-ish side so, I probably miss some cherries atm.

There is also a blueprints for CDK if you'd prefer using that. https://github.com/aws-quickstart/cdk-eks-blueprints/