EKS Support for kube-aws #1434
Description
From the kube-aws amazon blog post
kube-aws is specialized for AWS users. Naturally, our response to the recent introduction of AWS EKS AWS’s long-awaited managed Kubernetes service is that we’re planning to add first-class EKS support to kube-aws.
The EKS integration would look like this: EKS manages the Kubernetes control plane, which consists of etcd and controller nodes. All the etcd members and the Kubernetes system components like apiserver and controller-manager run on EKS managed nodes. kube-aws, however, manages only worker node pools. Compared to etcd and controller nodes, worker nodes tend to have more varying requirements such as auditing, logging, network security, and IAM permissions, because they may run user-facing containers. The integration would keep your Kubernetes operational cost at minimum thanks to EKS, while keeping maximum flexibility thanks to kube-aws managed worker nodes.
We've been using kube-aws for over 2 years now but are exploring EKS. I'd be interested in helping to contribute to bridging the two tools if this is a direction kube-aws would like to go.
Has there been any work / planning on this topic? What are next steps here?