In the microservices world, a considerable amount of containerized applications are run on Kubernetes. It's one of the best open-source projects of all time. However, adopting it is a different story. Due to the complexity and lack of inadequate IT resources, many organizations find it challenging.
In this journey, if we think about the pain points which are holding the development teams back.
- Developer wait time. It takes weeks to provision the infrastructure and then configure it with the required add-ons.
- Difficulty in tracking infrastructure changes over time.
- Lack of Automation. Software is manually deployed on an ad-hoc basis.
- Tooling and configuration inconsistencies across teams and environments.
- Ensure the security best practices on cluster and application levels.
Imagine if we could have a template that helps us to address all these pain points and accelerate time to market. EKS Blueprints offers all of it.
What is EKS Blueprints
It's a set of Infrastructures as Code scripts organized as a template that helps you provision EKS clusters, bootstrapped with all required add-ons to deploy and operate workloads in the cluster. Once a template is configured, you can use it as a blueprint to spawn consistent environments across multiple AWS accounts and regions.
Benefits
Once we adopt EKS Blueprints with GitOps to manage the application delivery, we can eliminate the end-to-end manual processes. Create any number of Well-Architected environments, and destroy them at will. Then, recreate them quickly or revert them to any point in time. Also can manage teams, namespaces, and access control from the same git repo where you define the infrastructure. This means you can iterate rapidly. Consistency is another significant benefit we can achieve with IaC. It also allows the entire infra to be version controlled and updated using proper review and approval processes.
Live Demo
Repos
Repos used for the live demo.
https://github.com/lkravi/eks_blueprints
https://github.com/lkravi/eks_blueprints_workloads
https://github.com/lkravi/eks_blueprints_demo_app
AWS EKS BluePrint for Terraform Repo
https://github.com/aws-ia/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints
Finally I would like to thank awesome AWS containers team for initiating this Open source repo and making our life easier. Apoorva_Kulkarni, Kevin_Coleman, Mikhail_Shapirov, Vara_Bonthu, Zvika Nadav
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