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So you’ve decided to run your Kubernetes workloads in AWS. As we’ve seen before setting up AWS EKS requires a lot of patience and headache. You may be able to get it working. For others, you should check out the eksctl tool from Weaveworks. Now that you’ve got a Kubernetes cluster, you want to start deploying your microservices to it and start exposing and integrating APIs and services to your clients and other parts of your organization.

I’ve been using EKS in production for a small number of months now and so far, so good. Really impressed by the simplicity of getting a cluster up and running and ready for workloads. AWS provide a greatGetting Started Guideon their website, which is super duper for getting your head around the components and glue required for getting EKS stood up. EKS is a very vanilla service, giving users a cluster that conforms to CNCF standards,which Kubernetes purists will be very happy with, however, don’t think that because AWS provides Kubernetes as a service, you no longer have to worry about getting your nodes optimised and ready for your heavy workloads.