EKS On-Premises

Kubernetes architecture is often associated with cloud technology and certainly qualifies as one. However, that does not mean the K8s can not be provisioned on the on-premises infrastructure. Depending upon the organization’s needs regarding security compliance, current architecture, the cost of shifting to the cloud, or maybe fear of data breaches or any other reason, an organization may choose to have complete K8 deployment on-premises or partially opt for the cloud.

In this lesson, we will go over different AWS options to deploy EKS on premises completely or partially through AWS Outposts and EKS anywhere.

EKS Outposts

AWS outposts is an AWS-managed service, used to extend AWS infrastructure, APIs, and AWS services to different data centers or on-premises infrastructure to offer consistency across all infrastructures. EKS Outposts utilize EKS Distro as a foundation for deploying the Kubernetes cluster. EKS can be used with AWS Outposts to run and manage Kubernetes applications on-premises, completely or partially known as local and extended clusters, respectively.