The document provides a detailed overview of Amazon EKS, including platform versions, shared responsibility models, worker node management, and load balancing configurations. It discusses the integration of Kubernetes with AWS features such as IAM authentication, networking plugins, and CI/CD options, while also highlighting the use of EC2 spot instances for cost optimization and resilience. The information is geared towards DevOps architects and Kubernetes practitioners looking to leverage Amazon EKS for scalable container orchestration solutions.

1. AMAZON EKS DEEP DIVE
ANDRZEJ KOMARNICKI – DEVOPS ARCHITECT

14. Kubernetes
Version
Kubernetes Patch
Version
Amazon EKS
Platform
Version
Enabled Admission Controllers Release Notes
1.10 1.10.3 eks.2 ​Initializers, NamespaceLifecycle, Limit
Ranger, ServiceAccount, DefaultStora
geClass, ResourceQuota, DefaultToler
ationSeconds, NodeRestriction, Muta
tingAdmissionWebhook,ValidatingAd
missionWebhook
•Added support for
Kubernetes aggregation layer.
•Added support for
Kubernetes Horizontal Pod
Autoscaler (HPA).
•Kubernetes Metrics Server 0.3.0
or greater is compatible with EKS
platform version eks.2.
1.10 1.10.3 eks.1 ​Initializers, NamespaceLifecycle, Limit
Ranger, ServiceAccount, DefaultStora
geClass, ResourceQuota, DefaultToler
ationSeconds,NodeRestriction
Initial launch of Amazon EKS.
Current and recent Amazon EKS platform versions are
described in the table below:

15. EKS CUSTOMERS

16. EKS – KUBERNETES MASTERS

17. EKS ARCHITECTURE

18. Amazon EKS Shared Responsibility Model
For Amazon EKS, AWS is responsible for the Kubernetes control plane, which includes the control
plane nodes and etcd database.
You assume responsibility and management of the following:
• The security configuration of the data plane, including the configuration of the security groups that
allow traffic to pass from the Amazon EKS control plane into the customer VPC
• The configuration of the worker nodes and the containers themselves
• The worker node guest operating system (including updates and security patches)
• Other associated application software:
• Setting up and managing network controls, such as firewall rules
• Managing platform-level identity and access management, either with or in addition to IAM

19. EKS NETWORKING

21. CNI PLUGIN
Any Kubernetes cluster on AWS
• EKS
• BYOK8s
Daemonset deployment
• kubectl create –f eks-cni.yaml

22. CNI INFRASTRUCTURE

23. VPC CNI NETWORKING INTERNALS

24. VPC CNI PLUGIN ARCHITECTURE

27. Kubernetes + AWS IAM
• AWS native access management
• In collaboration with Heptio
• Kubectl and worker nodes
• Works with Kubernetes RBAC
IAM Auth Support == Upstream in 1.10
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator

28. IAM AUTHENTICATION + KUBECTL
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/add-user-role.html

29. WORKER PROVISIONING

30. Load Balancing - Classic/NLB
Amazon EKS supports the Network Load Balancer and the Classic Load Balancer through the Kubernetes
service of type LoadBalancer. The configuration of your load balancer is controlled by annotations that are
added to the manifest for your service.
By default, Classic Load Balancers are used for LoadBalancer type services. To use the Network Load
Balancer instead, apply the following annotation to your service:
service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-type: nlb

31. Load Balancing - ALB
• CoreOS ALB Ingress Controller: Supported by AWS (in beta)
• Exposes ALB functionality to Kubernetes via Ingress Resources
• Layer 7 load balancing, supports content-based routing by host
or path
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-alb-ingress-controller

32. The following diagram details the AWS components this controller creates. It also demonstrates the route
ingress traffic takes from the ALB to the Kubernetes cluster.

33. Ingress Creation
This section describes each step (circle) above. This example demonstrates satisfying 1 ingress resource.
[1]: The controller watches for ingress events from the API server. When it finds ingress resources that satisfy its
requirements, it begins the creation of AWS resources.
[2]: An ALB (ELBv2) is created in AWS for the new ingress resource. This ALB can be internet-facing or internal.
You can also specify the subnets it's created in using annotations.
[3]: Target Groups are created in AWS for each unique Kubernetes service described in the ingress resource.
[4]: Listeners are created for every port detailed in your ingress resource annotations. When no port is specified,
sensible defaults (80 or 443) are used. Certificates may also be attached via annotations.
[5]: Rules are created for each path specified in your ingress resource. This ensures traffic to a specific path is
routed to the correct Kubernetes Service.
Along with the above, the controller also...
•deletes AWS components when ingress resources are removed from k8s.
•modifies AWS components when ingress resources change in k8s.
•assembles a list of existing ingress-related AWS components on start-up, allowing you to recover if the controller
were to be restarted.

34. VISIBILITY THROUGHOUT YOUR KUBERNETES CLUSTER

35. LOG AGGREGATION IN CLOUDWATCH LOGS VIA FLUENTD
https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/tree/master/incubator/fluentd-cloudwatch

36. METRICS

37. CI/CD for apps on Kubernetes - options
Jenkins
AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild
AWS partners
• GitLab
• Shippable
• CircleCI
• Codeship

38. https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-kube-codesuite

39. Spot Instances
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances are spare EC2 capacity that offer discounts of 70-90% over On-
Demand prices. The Spot price is determined by term trends in supply and demand and the
amount of On-Demand capacity on a particular instance size, family, Availability Zone, and AWS
Region.
If the available On-Demand capacity of a particular instance type is depleted, the Spot Instance
is sent an interruption notice two minutes ahead to gracefully wrap up things. I recommend a
diversified fleet of instances, with multiple instance types created by Spot Fleets or EC2 Fleets.
You can use Spot Instances for various fault-tolerant and flexible applications. In a workload that
uses container orchestration and management platforms like EKS or Amazon Elastic Container
Service (Amazon ECS), the schedulers have built-in mechanisms to identify any pods or
containers on these interrupted EC2 instances. The interrupted pods or containers are then
replaced on other EC2 instances in the cluster.

40. Solution
component
Role in solution Code Deployment
Cluster Autoscaler
Scales EC2
instances in or out
Open source K8s pod DaemonSet on On-Demand Instances
Auto Scaling group
Provisions Spot or
On-Demand
Instances
AWS Via CloudFormation
Spot Instance
interrupt handler
Sets K8s nodes to
drain state, when
the Spot Instance
is interrupted
Open source
K8s pod DaemonSet on all K8s nodes with the
label lifecycle=EC2Spot
Solution architecture
There are three goals to accomplish with this solution:
1. The cluster must scale automatically to match the demands of an application.
2. Optimize for cost by using Spot Instances.
3. The cluster must be resilient to Spot Instance interruptions.
These goals are accomplished with the following components:

42. EKS Deep Dive Complete
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