EKS CAPI clusters

Platform9 supports creating Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service(EKS) clsuters using Kubernetes Cluster API(CAPI) and Platform9 CAPI conformant APIs. The Cluster API brings declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster creation, configuration and management.

Provider Version Matrix

EKS CAPI Clusters are managed by multiple Cluster API providers. More: Platform9 Cluster API Integration

Provider Type	Provider	Version
Core	Cluster API(CAPI)	1.1.5
Infrastructure	Cluster API Infrastructure Provider AWS (CAPA)	1.4.1
Bootstrap	Cluster API Infrastructure Provider AWS (CAPA) - AWSManagedControlPlane	1.4.1
Control Plane	Cluster API Infrastructure Provider AWS (CAPA) -AWSManagedControlPlane	1.4.1

APIs

List of all the APIs used to create an EKS CAPI Cluster.

CAPI APIs	CAPA APIs	CACPN APIs	CABPN APIs
Cluster	AWSCluster	AWSManagedControlPlane	EKSConfigTemplate
MachineDeployment	AWSClusterStaticIdentity		EKSConfig
MachinePool	AWSMachineTemplate
	AWSMachinePool
	AWSManagedMachinePool

Example Cluster Topology

References

Cluster API Book : https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/

Cluster API AWS Provider Book : https://cluster-api-aws.sigs.k8s.io/

Last updated on Sep 29, 2022

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