AWS DevDay: Building a Kubernetes platform in Amazon EKS with Pulumi

In this workshop, we’ll examine how Pulumi works with Kubernetes, and show real-world examples of managing Amazon EKS clusters.

We’ll guide you through your first deployment to Kubernetes with Pulumi, before showing you the power of Pulumi’s reusable components to turbo-charge your platform deployment.

Finally, we’ll examine Pulumi’s automation API and leverage it’s powerful capabilities to expose your application deployment platform into your users’ hands without asking them to write a single line of code!

Target Audience

Active Pulumi users, and users considering or actively building a Kubernetes platform

Prerequisites

Attendees should be familiar with Pulumi and have the Pulumi CLI installed on their machine. Attendees should have access to an AWS account, temporary AWS accounts will be provided to users on a first come, first served basis.

Presenters

• Lee Briggs
  Community Engineer, Pulumi
• Andrew Park
  Partner Solutions Architect, AWS
• Mansi Vaghela
  Solutions Architect, AWS
• Marina Novikova
  Partner Solutions Architect, AWS

What you will learn:

• How-to provision a production-ready Amazon EKS cluster with key features enabled using Pulumi
• Provisioning the aws-load-balancer-controller to automate ingress creation
• Install an example application to show the end-to-end user experience for users.