EKS Best Practices
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This section covers advanced topics encountered when operating Amazon EKS in production environments. It provides best practices across five key areas: network performance optimization, Control Plane scaling, security, cost management, and operational reliability.
Documentation Structure
Networking & Performance OptimizationStrategies for maximizing EKS network performance including Gateway API adoption, CoreDNS tuning, and East-West traffic optimizationControl Plane & ScalingEKS Control Plane internals, CRD at Scale, Provisioned Control Plane, and multi-cluster high availabilitySecurity & GovernanceEKS API Server authentication/authorization, Identity-First security, Kyverno policy management, supply chain security, threat detection and complianceResource & Cost OptimizationKarpenter autoscaling, Pod resource rightsizing, and FinOps-based cost reduction strategiesOperations & ReliabilityGitOps-based operations, troubleshooting, high availability architecture, Pod health checks & scheduling patterns