When it comes to infrastructure provisioning, including the AWS EKS cluster, Terraform is the first tool that comes to mind. Learning Terraform is much easier than setting up the infrastructure manually. That said, would you rather use the traditional approach to set up the infrastructure, or would you prefer to use Terraform? More specifically, would you rather create an EKS cluster using Terraform and have Terraform Kubernetes deployment in place, or use the manual method, leaving room for human errors?
As you may already know, Terraform is an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) software platform that allows you to manage hundreds of cloud services using a uniform CLI approach and uses declarative configuration files to codify cloud APIs. In this article, we won’t go into all the details of Terraform. Instead, we will be focusing on Terraform Kubernetes deployment.
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