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Bringing Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes to life with Palette
- AWS has released EKS Hybrid Nodes, which allows customers to leverage on-premises and edge infrastructure as worker nodes in EKS clusters.
- Hybrid nodes are bare metal and/or virtualized hosts running outside of AWS that register with a centralized EKS control plane as worker nodes, resulting in a single EKS cluster that spans the Amazon cloud and one or more private locations.
- Hybrid architectures offer an efficient pathway to cloud bursting, where on-premises applications temporarily scale to the cloud.
- Managing Kubernetes across different environments traditionally requires separate clusters and toolsets. Hybrid architectures enable a consistent security model across both on-premises and cloud environments.
- Multiple edge sites can be registered with a single control plane. AWS hosts and manages the Kubernetes control plane.
- Hybrid clusters improve DR capabilities and provide advanced mobility for workloads.
- To fully understand hybrid clusters, their configuration, and capabilities, network topology of each hybrid site is required prior to deployment.
- For solutions using a VPN architecture, it is recommended to have a dedicated VPN server per hybrid node pool.
- AWS provides a CLI tool to enable hybrid node lifecycle operations such as installation, configuration, registration, and upgrades.
- Palette can augment and extend the core Hybrid Nodes feature by automating the infrastructure lifecycle and orchestrating lifecycle management of hybrid nodes at scale.
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