# aws/eks-anywhere

Run Amazon EKS on your own infrastructure 🚀

Repository: https://github.com/aws/eks-anywhere
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/eks-anywhere
Homepage: https://anywhere.eks.amazonaws.com
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: kubernetes, aws, k8s, kubernetes-cluster, kubernetes-deployment, eks, vmware, docker, baremetal, baremetal-provisioning, tinkerbell
Last push: 2026-08-24T18:54:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 97, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1869, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 20, "gap_med": 13, "n_releases_24m": 48}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2097, forks 328 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:13.329280+00:00)

## What it is
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)

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: container-orchestration, deployment, infrastructure-as-code, cli, configuration-management
- domain: cloud-computing, infrastructure-as-code, self-hosted
- platform: windows, go, self-hosted
- tags: kubernetes, eks, on-premises, bare-metal, vsphere, nutanix, cloudstack, air-gapped, cluster-lifecycle, aws, containers, devops, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- aws/eks-anywhere (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:13.329280+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:54:32.710175+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/aws/eks-anywhere (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:13.329280+00:00, sha f10c6de56fbe)
  - homepage: https://anywhere.eks.amazonaws.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:34:48.850599+00:00, sha 7afd27810429)
  - site_page: https://anywhere.eks.amazonaws.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T10:34:48.853099+00:00, sha fd1d78ad1695)
  - site_page: https://anywhere.eks.amazonaws.com/docs/getting-started/overview (fetched 2026-08-29T10:34:48.855013+00:00, sha 2f9850eb6d4b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.