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Engineering Playbook

Welcome to the Cloud Native Architecture Engineering Playbook & Benchmark Reports. This playbook provides comprehensive, hands-on guides and architecture patterns for Amazon EKS-based cloud-native infrastructure optimization, Agentic AI platform engineering, and AIOps/AIDLC methodologies. Each technical domain includes quantitative performance benchmark reports to support data-driven architecture decisions.

What You'll Find Here​

This playbook is organized into seven core technical domains plus an independent benchmark reports section. Each domain includes detailed implementation guides, troubleshooting resources, real-world case studies, and quantitative performance data:

Infrastructure Optimization​

  • Gateway API adoption guide (NGINX Ingress EOL response, 5 solution comparison)
  • CoreDNS monitoring and optimization
  • Karpenter autoscaling configuration
  • East-West traffic optimization
  • Cost management and optimization

Operations & Observability​

  • GitOps-based cluster operations
  • Node monitoring agent deployment
  • EKS debugging and incident response guide
  • EKS high availability and resiliency architecture

Agentic AI Platform​

  • Production GenAI platform architecture
  • GPU resource management and optimization
  • vLLM and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model serving
  • llm-d distributed inference on EKS Auto Mode
  • Inference Gateway routing patterns
  • Milvus vector database and RAG implementations
  • Kagent Kubernetes AI agents
  • Langfuse agent monitoring
  • NeMo Framework integration
  • Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • RAGAS evaluation framework

AIops & AIDLC​

  • AIOps introduction and EKS application strategies
  • EKS intelligent observability stack (ADOT + AMP/AMG + CloudWatch AI)
  • AIDLC framework (Kiro + MCP + DevOps Agent)
  • Predictive scaling and auto-recovery patterns

Hybrid Infrastructure​

  • Hybrid nodes adoption guide
  • SR-IOV with DGX H200 high-performance networking
  • Hybrid nodes file storage configurations
  • Harbor container registry integration

Security & Governance​

  • Identity-First Security architecture
  • GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection
  • Kyverno policy management
  • Default namespace incident analysis
  • Software supply chain security

ROSA (OpenShift on AWS)​

  • ROSA demo installation guide
  • ROSA security and compliance

Benchmark Reports​

  • Infrastructure performance benchmarks
  • CNI performance comparison (Cilium vs VPC CNI)
  • AI/ML workload benchmarks
  • Hybrid infrastructure benchmarks
  • Security operations benchmarks

Getting Started​

  1. New to cloud native? Start with the fundamentals in each domain's introduction
  2. Specific use case? Use the search functionality to find relevant guides
  3. Implementation ready? Follow the step-by-step guides with code examples

How to Use This Playbook​

Each guide follows a consistent structure:

  • Overview: Context and objectives
  • Prerequisites: Required knowledge and tools
  • Architecture: System design and components
  • Implementation: Step-by-step instructions
  • Monitoring: Verification and observability
  • Troubleshooting: Common issues and solutions

Contributing​

This playbook is continuously updated with the latest cloud native patterns and best practices. For contributions, issues, or suggestions, visit our GitHub repository.

Support​

  • Documentation Issues: GitHub Issues
  • Technical Questions: Use the search functionality or browse by tags