EKS

Question 1

EKS

Answer 1

• open source
• ec2 and fargate support
• nodes can be managed by ASG
  
  • managed node groups
    
    • creates ec2 instances for you, supports spot instances
  • self managed nodes
    
    • nodes created by you and registered to the EKS cluster and managed by ASG
    • can use prebuilt AMIs
  • AWS fargate - no management of nodes by you 🙂

Question 2

EKS data volumes

Answer 2

• specify storage class manifest in cluster definition
• leverages CSI container storage interface
• support for EBS, EFS (fargate only),