[AWS] EKS vs Self managed HA k3s running on 1x2 ec2 machines, for medium production workload

• Kubernetes-Volume-Autoscaler

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  Autoscaling volumes for Kubernetes (with the help of Prometheus)

  

Additionally if you don't know, Kubernetes freshly setup, especially AWS's EKS is largely useless after you first set it up. You need to then install roughly a dozen other services into it to make it "do all the magic automatically". Services such as aws-ebs-csi-driver, (optional) aws-efs-csi-driver, (optional) aws-fsx-csi-driver, aws-load-balancer-controller, (optional) aws-node-termination-handler, cluster-autoscaler, (optional) external-dns, logs cascading engine (eg: fluentd-elasticsearch / fluent-bit-elasticsearch / datadog), grafana, prometheus, your ingress controller of choice (I prefer and recommend ingress-nginx), and the Kubernetes Volume Autoscaler to auto-scale up EBS volumes. (shameless plug: I wrote the volume-autoscaler)

• eksctl

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  The official CLI for Amazon EKS

  

For this and many other reasons I recommend doing everything in Terraform EXCEPT EKS and its node groups. For that, I use https://eksctl.io/ because it much better manages the lifecycle of EKS and your node groups. I have an blog article better explaining why I recommend it, and another blog article explaining how to do zero-downtime upgrades with EKSCTL.

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