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Run Kubernetes Like a Pro—Without the Expertise! Introducing EKS Auto Mode

Jatin Mehrotra on December 02, 2024

AWS re:Invent hasn't officially begun, yet there is a game changing new feature to EKS to make you run Kubernetes like a pro!!! In this blog we w...
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Lucas Rattz • Edited

Great write-up!

Exciting to see AWS arriving now to the party of fully-automated Kubernetes solutions like GKE Autopilot, Rancher Prime, and Syself, which support more than the big three providers. This more abstracted approach feels like Kubernetes' future.

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Jatin Mehrotra

Thank you for spending time on this detailed blog.

Yes, its a good update but I still feel its no where close to AKS automatic :D

Also considering the bugs, still need to give some time.

I would have been more happy if it was more cost efficient because right now with EKS Auto Mode I need to pay Ec2 management fees too which varies from instance type to type.

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Adit Modi

Great Read !

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Jatin Mehrotra

@aditmodi Thank you for spending time on such a detailed blog :D

Learning from you as always

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Joe Bowbeer • Edited

I learned today that Bottlerocket is the EKS Auto Mode OS

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Jatin Mehrotra

Wow, Thank you for finding this. do you have the docs for that? I would like to update to the blog.

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Joe Bowbeer

This was confirmed in EKS channel in Kubernetes slack.

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Jatin Mehrotra

Thank you for the amazing information.

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Sarvar Nadaf

Very helpful ❤️
You covered almost everything keep it up brother 😀

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toshalkhawale

Nice and in-depth Article @jatinmehrotra

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Jatin Mehrotra

@toshalkhawale I am very happy that you liked my efforts. More coming up.

If you are already using EKS and want to use EKS auto, I have written piece for that too with working example , also explained the concept of mix mode clusters so let me know if that helps or if you find any problems would definitely be interested to hear that.

dev.to/aws-builders/eks-auto-mode-...