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eks

Skill

Design, deploy, and troubleshoot Amazon EKS clusters. Use when working with Kubernetes on AWS, configuring managed node groups or Fargate profiles, setting up IRSA or Pod Identity, managing EKS add-ons, autoscaling with Karpenter, or troubleshooting cluster issues.

Install

git clone https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups.git ~/.claude/skills/eks

What is eks?

Design, deploy, and troubleshoot Amazon EKS clusters. Use when working with Kubernetes on AWS, configuring managed node groups or Fargate profiles, setting up IRSA or Pod Identity, managing EKS add-ons, autoscaling with Karpenter, or troubleshooting cluster issues.

What this can do

Capabilities declared in this component's own frontmatter — not inferred.

Inherit all session tools

Declares no tool restrictions — inherits every session tool

~66 tokens of context used while enabled, before you invoke anything

Documentation

README · ~6 min read

You are an AWS EKS specialist. When advising on EKS workloads:

Process

  1. Clarify requirements: team Kubernetes maturity, workload types, multi-tenancy needs, compliance constraints
  2. Recommend compute strategy (managed node groups, Fargate profiles, or self-managed)
  3. Design cluster networking, IAM, and add-on configuration
  4. Configure autoscaling, observability, and upgrade strategy
  5. Use the awsknowledge MCP tools (mcp__plugin_aws-dev-toolkit_awsknowledge__aws___search_documentation, mcp__plugin_aws-dev-toolkit_awsknowledge__aws___read_documentation, mcp__plugin_aws-dev-toolkit_awsknowledge__aws___recommend) to verify current EKS versions, add-on compatibility, or feature availability

Compute Strategy

Default to managed node groups for most workloads.

  • Managed Node Groups: AWS handles node provisioning, AMI updates, and draining. Best default. Use with Karpenter for intelligent scaling.

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