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Terraform & Our Infrastructure

Day 0 — Terraform & Our Infrastructure, Explained Simply Series: Zero to Production on AWS EKS with Terraform — Part 1 · Day 0 The "before we touch any code" episode. Welcome to Day 0. 👋 Before we

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MRIDUL TIWARIOct 4 · 6 min read

When the cluster looked idle but nothing would schedule

The first thing I checked was the obvious one: CPU. Our non-prod EKS workers are Karpenter-managed, and application pods had been sitting in Pending long enough that Istio and app syncs were backing u

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Vivian Chiamaka OkoseSep 23 · 5 min read

My Pods Got AWS Permissions From Thin Air. No Keys Anywhere.

I opened a shell inside one of my pods and asked AWS who it was. It answered with an IAM role and a set of temporary credentials. No access keys anywhere. Not in an environment variable, not in a Kube

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Lalit BaggaSep 11 · 7 min read

My Kubernetes App Moved to EKS Unchanged. Everything Around It Didn't.

My Kubernetes application moved from my home server to Amazon EKS without an application code change. The platform around it did not. The EKS control plane took 5 minutes 51 seconds to create. Once th

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MRIDUL TIWARISep 5 · 7 min read

Standing up a greenfield EKS cluster — and every mistake we stepped on

The Argo CD UI showed SyncFailed on karpenter-node-infra before we'd deployed a single application pod. EC2NodeClass and NodePool didn't exist in the cluster — not because the manifests were wrong, bu

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Adedoyin OgunsolaSep 2 · 5 min read

Solving ImagePullBackOff, CrashLoopBackOff and OOMKilled Pod-Status in K8s

The real Kubernetes troubleshooting skill isn't memorizing error names, it's knowing which layer to check next based on the symptom in front of you. kubectl describe pod <pod-name> + Events is one of

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FerAug 27 · 18 min read

Build an MCP Server in Go (Part 3): How IRSA and EKS Pod Identity Actually Work

Everything the MCP server could check through Part 2 lives inside the cluster. But "my pod can't reach S3" is very often not a Kubernetes problem at all, it's a workload identity problem, and that ide

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Manu ShuklaAug 22 · 14 min read

EKS control plane tuning shipped 12 August 2026 with four parameters and a $1.65/hr paywall

EKS control plane tuning shipped 12 August 2026 with four parameters and a $1.65/hr paywall Summary. Amazon EKS opened Kubernetes control plane configuration on 12 August 2026. Four parameters, three

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Prateek SrivastavaAug 20 · 9 min read

Our EKS Node Crashed and Four Auto-Recovery Mechanisms All Failed. Here's Why.

⚡ TL;DR: An EKS worker node running 30+ pods crashed at 08:43 IST on Aug 16. EC2 Auto Scaling didn't act. EKS Node Auto Repair was never enabled. Cluster Autoscaler had no headroom (Min=Max=6). Our me

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Anand RavalAug 18 · 4 min read

AWS Day 43: Scaling and Managing Kubernetes Clusters with Amazon EKS

As part of my KodeKloud 100 Days of Cloud journey, Day 43 focused on creating and configuring an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster with a strong focus on security, availability, and cont

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