Deploy AWS EKS Workloads

Use this skill when deploying, configuring, and governing production Kubernetes workloads on Amazon EKS in accordance with 2026–2027 AWS Cloud-Native standards.

When to Use

• deploying containerized applications and microservices to Amazon EKS via GitOps
• configuring declarative node autoscaling via Karpenter v1.0+ (NodePool and EC2NodeClass)
• establishing IAM credentials for pods using AWS EKS Pod Identity (replacing legacy IRSA)
• setting up sidecarless cross-VPC service communication with AWS VPC Lattice and Kubernetes Gateway API
• synchronizing application secrets from AWS Secrets Manager using External Secrets Operator (ESO)
• instrumenting EKS workloads with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and CloudWatch Application Signals
• enforcing supply chain security with Amazon ECR immutable tags, Inspector v2 SBOMs, and AWS Signer

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