EKS Best Practices

Comprehensive guidance for designing, deploying, and operating Amazon EKS clusters. Consolidates guidance from the AWS EKS Best Practices Guide, AWS EKS HA/Resiliency Guide, and terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-eks examples.

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when:

• Designing a new EKS cluster architecture
• Choosing between EKS compute options (Fargate, MNG, Karpenter, Auto Mode)
• Configuring EKS networking (VPC CNI, ingress, service mesh)
• Implementing EKS security (IAM, pod security, secrets)
• Planning cluster upgrades or migrations
• Reviewing EKS architecture decisions
• Working with terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-eks examples
• Optimizing EKS cost or scaling to large clusters