EKS Manager delivers a complete, revision-controlled, production-grade EKS cluster — not just the cluster itself — with internal DNS, TLS, ingress, monitoring, and deployment tooling pre-integrated and kept consistent across all dev, QA, integration, UAT, and production environments via GitOps.
Native AWS tools provision a cluster. EKS Manager provisions a platform — declarative, reproducible, and identical from your laptop to production.
eksctl creates the EKS control plane and node groups — then leaves you to manually wire DNS, TLS, ingress, and monitoring. Every engineer does it differently every time.
Terraform provisions AWS resources but is not opinionated about what runs inside the cluster. You still need to separately manage ArgoCD apps, cert lifecycles, and ingress config — and keep them in sync across environments.
Without GitOps as the source of truth, dev, QA, UAT, and production clusters drift. A hotfix applied manually in prod is never reflected in dev. EKS Manager uses ArgoCD to make every environment a declared, auditable state.
By design, helm upgrade installs CRDs once and never touches them again — so when a component's definitions change between versions, working it out is left to you. And deleting a CRD cascades: every custom resource using it goes with it. EKS Manager sequences it — the resources are captured, the definitions replaced and the resources restored. Where deleting a definition would be unsafe, it is applied in place instead.
ArgoCD, Traefik, ExternalDNS, ECK, and Headlamp are individually free. Integrating them, keeping them compatible, and upgrading them safely across a cluster lifecycle is weeks of engineering every trimester. EKS Manager does this for you.
EKS Manager is a least-privilege access agent — powerful enough to safely provision clusters, node groups, and vault secrets, yet scoped to block the most dangerous AWS Full Admin permissions.
Native EKS Pod Identity ensures least-privilege access with short-lived tokens — no static keys, no IRSA complexity.
Automated KMS integration encrypts secrets at rest via hardware-backed security.
Automated Taints and Tolerations for Node Groups ensure dedicated compute isolation.
Integrated with AWS Secrets Manager with a GUI to dynamically update secrets.
Every component upgraded trimesterly — no manual patching, no version drift.
The core of our GitOps delivery and DAG batch processing, upgraded trimesterly.
Automated lifecycle for ingress, TLS, and DNS automation for reliable AWS routing.
Modern Kubernetes UI and full-stack observability updated to latest releases.
helm upgrade does not upgrade CRDs. That is documented Helm behaviour — they are installed once and never touched again, so when a component's definitions change between versions, working it out is left to you. And deleting a CRD cascades: every custom resource using it goes with it.
EKS Manager sequences it. The custom resources are captured, the definitions replaced, and the resources restored — as part of the upgrade, not a separate exercise you have to invent.
Elasticsearch holds data, so its definitions are never deleted — they are applied server-side, leaving every Elasticsearch, Kibana and Beat resource untouched. The load balancer controller is treated the same way.
Upgrading the EKS cluster itself replaces every node. Elasticsearch is scaled down onto its retained volumes first and brought back afterwards, so the node roll never has to move or rebalance the data it holds — which is what makes it quick.
EKS add-ons are the drivers and core networking components that must stay version-compatible with your cluster on every upgrade. EKS Manager manages their full lifecycle — no manual intervention, no silent breakage.
Every EKS cluster and add-on upgraded trimesterly via AWS Marketplace — with a support tier to match your team's needs.
Full stack and EKS cluster upgrades every trimester — add-ons, ingress, observability and GitOps tooling moved together to a tested combination.
Best-efforts support via email. Ideal for teams evaluating the platform or running non-critical workloads.
Business hours support (Mon–Fri, CET) for teams running production workloads on EKS Manager.
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