Ultimate EKS Baseline Cluster: Part 1 - Provision EKS

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In the future, I would like to make a similar series with Terraform to setup the base EKS cluster, and then use Terraform with templatefile or Helmfile to manage installing helm charts and kubernetes manifests.

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From here, we can explore other developments and tutorials on Kubernetes, such as o11y or observability (PLG, ELK, ELF, TICK, Jaeger, Pyroscope), service mesh (Linkerd, Istio, NSM, Consul Connect, Cillium), and progressive delivery (ArgoCD, FluxCD, Spinnaker).

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From here, we can explore other developments and tutorials on Kubernetes, such as o11y or observability (PLG, ELK, ELF, TICK, Jaeger, Pyroscope), service mesh (Linkerd, Istio, NSM, Consul Connect, Cillium), and progressive delivery (ArgoCD, FluxCD, Spinnaker).

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From here, we can explore other developments and tutorials on Kubernetes, such as o11y or observability (PLG, ELK, ELF, TICK, Jaeger, Pyroscope), service mesh (Linkerd, Istio, NSM, Consul Connect, Cillium), and progressive delivery (ArgoCD, FluxCD, Spinnaker).

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eksctl [eksctl] is the tool that can provision EKS cluster as well as supporting VPC network infrastructure.

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This article uses eksctl tool to provision the necessary cloud resources to bring up EKS. The eksctl tool will use Cloud Formation stacks to deploy the necessary cloud resources (VPC, EC2, SGs, etc) that make up the full solution.

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