Creating a K8S Cluster The AWS Way
I created a lot of Kubernetes clusters using Terraform and Rancher. However, I prefer to use EKSCTL to create and manage K8S Clusters on AWS. EKSCTL is the official CLI for Amazon EKS and simplifies many things. On the other hand, it is pretty easy to upgrade the clusters, integrate with others features as ClusterAutoescaler, or configure secrets with KMS.
EKSCTL it is written in Go and makes use of CloudFormation under the hood. Also, it allows us to specify a manifest to replicate if we want to, and we can add it to our codebase just as almost any other IAC does.
