eks-best-practices

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you make correct, production-grade Amazon EKS architecture decisions and avoids common reliability, security, scaling, and cost pitfalls during cluster planning and Terraform-based implementations.

Core Features & Use Cases

• EKS architecture decision guidance: Choose compute and operating models (Karpenter, Managed Node Groups, Fargate, Auto Mode, self-managed) based on workload needs and operational constraints.
• Multi-tenant platform and isolation patterns: Apply namespace, RBAC, network policies, and quotas for tenant isolation with practical AWS-aligned recommendations.
• Security, reliability, upgrades, and operations: Cover Pod Security, IAM/Pod Identity/IRSA, ingress patterns, PDBs, health probes, rollout/upgrade strategies (in-place vs blue-green), and observability essentials.
• Terraform planning triggers and implementation support: Provide guidance when users discuss EKS configuration and Terraform with terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-eks, including add-ons, access entries, node group patterns, and IRSA integration.

Quick Start

Activate this skill when you’re planning an EKS cluster and need “the right way” to choose compute, networking, security, and upgrade strategy for a production multi-tenant platform.