EKS

Here at Ascenda Loyalty, we are using AWS managed kubernetes service (EKS) to run out applications. Some background info EKS, aka Elastic Kubernetes Service is a managed kubernetes service offered by AWS. They help to manage the control plane of the kubernetes cluster and the worker nodes (for EKS Fargate). Security group for pods are used for our application pods and some internal services. This allows us to manage the network security out of the kubernetes layer and between the AWS resources (ie. RDS, ElastiCache). Due to a limitation in the amount of pods that can use security group (only supported by most nitro based Amazon EC2 instance family and limited number of pods allowed to have SG), we are unable to use it for all of our pods. ...