EKS: Self-Managed Nodes vs Managed Node Group vs AWS Fargate
January 6, 2022
We'll cover the different EKS Nodes and what they mean. Essentially, EKS manages Kubernetes-as-a-Service but this mainly means the Kubernetes control plane. You still need to provide compute nodes to your EKS cluster so they have the capacity to deploy the pods onto. There are 3 options:
- Self-managed: You bring your own servers and have more control of the server. You have to manage it yourself though. So people also call this unmanaged.
- Managed Node Groups: AWS manages the servers for you. You just have to specify some configurations of server instance types.
- AWS Fargate: AWS manages even more of the server for you. You don't even have to think about instance types. Just tell EKS how much RAM and CPU you need and that's it.
Other lessons where EKS clusters are created
- Terraspace: EKS Managed Nodes Cluster with the Terraform Registry
- Terraspace: AKS Cluster with azurerm_kubernetes_cluster Terraform Resource
- Terraspace: GKE Cluster with the Terraform Registry
GitHub Repos for Tutorial Lessons:
Docker Essentials
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Kubernetes Intro
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1h 43m
Kubernetes Deploy Tools
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Kubes: Kubernetes Deploy Tool
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Kubernetes Tips
19m
19m
AWS EKS Kubernetes
4h 13m
4h 13m
Azure AKS Kubernetes
40m
40m
Google GKE Kubernetes
3h 29m
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