Automation on EKS

Overview

EKS supports various automation approaches for deploying applications and managing infrastructure.

Topics

GitOps

• Flux - GitOps operator for Kubernetes
• Argo CD - Declarative GitOps continuous delivery

Control Planes

• AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) - Manage AWS resources from K8s
• Crossplane - Cloud-native control planes
• kro - Kube Resource Orchestrator

Continuous Delivery

• AWS CodePipeline - CI/CD for EKS

GitOps Workflow

Git Repository --> GitOps Operator (Flux/ArgoCD) --> EKS Cluster
      |                         |
      v                         v
  Sync Status              Reconciliation

References

• EKS Workshop - Automation
• EKS Capabilities