[AWS API Gateway, EKS] Access an Amazon EKS Cluster with an API Gateway!!
11 min readJan 10, 2022
Overview
you’ll practice configuring an API Gateway to access an API deployed in an Amazon EKS cluster. When you’re finished with this lab, you’ll have an understanding of using VPC link and an API Gateway for EKS deployments.
What is Amazon EKS?
- EKS runs vanilla K8s, EKS is upstream and a certified conformant version of K8s with security fixes.
- EKS supports 4 versions of K8s, giving customers time to test and roll out upgrades.
- EKS provides a managed and secure K8s
- EKS makes K8s operations, administration and management simple.
Why K8s?
- open-source container management platform governed by the community
- run containers at scale, integrating networking, storage, and compute
- Take advantage of open-source tools that are designed to run on K8s
- faster deployment time
Why Amazon EKS?
- running and scaling K8s can be difficult and requires significant investment
- Securing K8s increases the operational overhead of running applications
- Applications need a native way to integrate with other AWS services securely and reliably.