Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) is a Kubernetes distribution based on and used by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to create reliable and secure Kubernetes clusters. With EKS-D, you can rely on the same versions of Kubernetes and its dependencies deployed by Amazon EKS. This includes the latest upstream updates, as well as extended security patching support. EKS-D follows the same Kubernetes version release cycle as Amazon EKS, and we provide the bits here. EKS-D provides the same software that has enabled tens of thousands of Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS. EKS is a fully managed Kubernetes platform, while EKS-D is available to install and manage yourself. You can run EKS-D on-premises, in a cloud, or on your own systems. EKS-D provides a path to having essentially the same Amazon EKS Kubernetes distribution running wherever you need to run it.
Features
- Build EKS-D from source code
- Install EKS-D using kOps or other installation methods
- Documentation available
- The goal of the EKS Distro is to be the Kubernetes source for EKS and EKS Anywhere
- Make using a Kubernetes distribution simple and boring (reliable and secure)
- Provide opinionated defaults about the best components to include with Kubernetes but give customers the ability to swap them out
- Integrate a Kubernetes distribution in the most common tooling (Kubernetes installers and distributions, infrastructure as code, and more)
- Enable AWS customers to adopt additional AWS services easily
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