Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the origins of AWS and Amazon EKS before walking through how to sign up for an account and how to install and configure the two command-line tools required to easily launch an Amazon EKS cluster.

Once our cluster was up and running, we deployed the same workload as when we launched our GKE cluster. We did not have to make any allowances for the workload running on a different cloud provider – it just worked, even deploying a load balancer using the AWS native load balancing service without us having to instruct it to do so.

However, we did find that Amazon EKS is less integrated with the AWS console than the Google service we looked at. We also learned that we had to install a second command-line tool to easily launch our cluster due to the complications of trying to do so using the AWS CLI. This would have been around eight steps, assuming the Amazon VPC configuration and IAM roles had been created and deployed.

This lack of...