Hey everyone, I'm curious if anyone is using EKS Auto Mode in a production environment. How's it working for you with real applications? I'm considering migrating my workload to EKS, but since we're a small team, we prefer to keep infrastructure management minimal. I'm looking to see if Auto Mode is a reliable option or if we should just stick with the standard EKS setup instead.
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I've been using EKS Auto Mode, and while we're still getting our feet wet with Kubernetes, the reduced overhead is worth the slight cost increase for my team right now. We're planning to switch to a different setup once we get to a point where the cost outweighs the engineer time involved each month. Honestly, getting from zero to one with K8s can be the toughest part, and Auto Mode makes that a lot easier.
If you're a small team looking to avoid heavy infrastructure management, have you thought about using ECS with Fargate? It’s a lot simpler than any EKS setup, and it might suit your needs better.
It may be simpler, but it's also more limited. For example, scaling based on Kafka lag in ECS can be done, but it’s kind of a hassle.
Aren't you just missing out on all the existing infrastructure that's available with public helm charts?