Amazon EKS
EKS gives you a managed control plane on AWS with the rest of the platform, networking, IAM and storage, still your responsibility. Most EKS pain comes from those edges: pod networking limits, IAM roles for service accounts, load balancer controllers and surprise bills.
We build EKS with Terraform, Karpenter or managed node groups for scaling, the AWS Load Balancer Controller for ingress and cost visibility from day one.
At a glance
| Provisioning | Terraform, eksctl |
|---|---|
| Scaling | Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler, managed node groups, Fargate |
| Networking | VPC CNI, ALB/NLB via AWS Load Balancer Controller |
| Identity | IRSA, EKS Pod Identity, SSO integration |
What RackLedge does
- Landing zone and cluster build with IaC
- Ingress, TLS and DNS automation
- Cost optimization: right-sizing, spot, Graviton
- Upgrade cadence aligned with EKS version support
How we work
Every cluster we build starts from Git. Infrastructure as code creates the cluster, Flux or Argo CD reconciles everything inside it, and no change reaches production without a pull request. That is what makes a rebuild after a bad day a matter of hours instead of weeks.
Operations are the product: monitoring with alerts that mean something, backups of cluster state and persistent volumes, upgrades on a quarterly cadence and an on-call engineer who already knows the environment. We run production Kubernetes for our own platforms, so the runbooks are ones we use ourselves.
We are honest about fit. A handful of stable services on a couple of VMs does not need Kubernetes, and we will say so. Teams that ship weekly, need to scale or run many services get real value from it.
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Frequently asked questions
EKS or ECS?
ECS is simpler for a few services. EKS when you need the Kubernetes ecosystem, portability or a team that already knows it.
Need a hand with this?
Tell us what you are running and what is slowing you down. You get a straight assessment and a plan, with no obligation. Support desk is staffed 24/7.