The Complete Guide to Production EKS with Terraform

"Production-ready EKS deployment with Terraform — Karpenter autoscaling, self-healing nodes, pod security standards, and multi-AZ high availability." EKS is the most popular managed Kubernetes service, but most deployments I've seen in production audits are dangerously under-configured. Missing node auto-remediation, no pod security standards, manual scaling — the list goes on. This guide covers everything you need for production EKS. EKS vs AKS vs GKE Feature EKS AKS GKE Control Plane Cost $0.10/hr Free Free (Standard) Autopilot Mode No (use Karpenter) No Yes Node Auto-Repair Manual/Lambda Built-in Built-in Service Mesh App Mesh / Istio Istio Anthos / Istio GPU Support p4d, g5 NC, ND series T4, A100 Terraform Module module "eks" { source = "github.com/kogunlowo123/terraform-aws-auto-healing-eks" cluster_name = "production-cluster" cluster_version = "1.29" vpc_id = module . vpc . vpc_id subnet_ids = module . vpc . private_subnet_ids node_groups = [{ name = "general" instance_types = [