Kong Konnect AddOns | Kong Gateway & Kong Ingress Controller | EKS Blueprint for Terraform Framework

Explore the future of Kong Konnect deployment on AWS EKS!

In this tutorial, Danny Freese introduces Kong Konnect AWS EKS Terraform Blueprint AddOns.

Learn how to effortlessly integrate and optimize Kong Konnect instances with EKS clusters using these addons. Discover simplified certificate management, prerequisites, step-by-step setup, and the power of Terraform automation.

With our AWS partnership, we jointly created two Kong Konnect AWS EKS Terraform Blueprint Addons, eks-blueprint-konnect-runtime-instance and eks-blueprint-konnect-kic, to help bootstrap your Kong Konnect instances on EKS.

When it comes fundamentally to standing up a production ready EKS cluster, there is more to it than meets the eye: deploying drivers, integrating with AWS Secrets Manager, integrating with AWS logging infrastructure, understanding the AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) integration. AWS EKS Blueprints in Terraform framework was designed to solve these needs by providing guardrails while adhering to community-wide Infrastructure as Code standards.

AWS EKS Blueprint Addons is an AWS developed framework based on Terraform and Helm to easily bootstrap EKS clusters. It comes with native EKS addons, such as AWS CNI, AWS EBS CSI driver, and the most popular third-party technologies such as Kong Konnect. The objective of the framework is to get you to a production-ready environment quickly by simplifying and consolidating Day 2 operations with AWS best practices built into addons themselves.

Overall, AWS EKS Blueprints for Terraform helps customers get a production ready EKS Cluster, as quickly as possible.