This is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for deploying containerized services to Amazon EKS. You’ll learn how to:
A Complete Guide to Deploying a Service to AWS EKS
What This Guide Covers
This is a comprehensive, production-ready deployment guide covering:
– Infrastructure provisioning with Terraform
– Container builds and ECR push with GitHub Actions
– Kubernetes deployments with Helm
– IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) configuration
– Complete troubleshooting section
Estimated time: 2-3 hours first time, ~30 minutes after that.
Who This Is For
- Platform engineers building self-service deployment pipelines.
- DevOps engineers standardizing EKS deployments.
- Anyone who’s fought with Kubernetes RBAC, IAM permissions, and Helm templating and wants a reference that just works.
The guide includes complete working examples – not snippets, but full Terraform modules, Helm charts, and GitHub Actions workflows you can adapt.
*Questions or improvements? Open an issue on the repo or message me on LinkedIn.*
