aws/eks-anywhere

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Amazon EKS Anywhere is an open-source tool for creating and operating Kubernetes clusters on your own infrastructure, built on Amazon EKS Distro. It provides full lifecycle management (create, upgrade, scale) of on-premises or edge clusters via the eksctl-anywhere CLI and declarative cluster specs, supporting vSphere, bare metal, Nutanix, CloudStack, and Snow providers.

Use cases

• run amazon eks on my own datacenter hardware
• create kubernetes clusters on bare metal servers
• deploy kubernetes on vmware vsphere on-premises
• manage kubernetes cluster upgrades declaratively
• run kubernetes in an air-gapped environment
• provision kubernetes clusters on nutanix or cloudstack
• set up a local eks-like cluster for development with docker

When to choose

• you want an AWS-supported Kubernetes distribution on-premises or at the edge
• your environment is isolated or air-gapped with no reliable AWS region connectivity
• you want opinionated, automated cluster lifecycle management on vSphere, bare metal, Nutanix, CloudStack, or Snow

When to avoid

• you have reliable connectivity to an AWS region and prefer AWS-managed control planes (EKS Hybrid Nodes or EKS on Outposts)
• you want a fully managed cloud Kubernetes service
• you need a provider outside the supported infrastructure list
• you only need a lightweight local dev cluster (Docker support is non-production only)

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container-orchestration deployment infrastructure-as-code cli configuration-management cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code self-hosted windows go self-hosted kubernetes eks on-premises bare-metal vsphere nutanix cloudstack air-gapped cluster-lifecycle aws containers devops linux macos docker

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