# Lifecycle Management For Amazon EKS using Rafay

Curated guides to help users provision, scale, upgrade, and operate [Amazon EKS](https://docs.rafay.co/clusters/eks/overview/) clusters using Rafay's Lifecycle Management capabilities for Amazon EKS. We maintain a [public Git repository](https://github.com/RafaySystems/getstarted) with tested code and examples for each guide below.

- **Cluster Lifecycle Management**  
  Provision and manage the lifecycle of EKS clusters using web console or declarative specs or Terraform  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/clusterlifecycle/overview/)

- **Auto Mode for EKS**  
  Developer Self Service of Amazon EKS Auto Mode clusters using GitOps based automation  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/blog/2024/12/13/get-started-with-auto-mode-for-amazon-eks-with-rafay/)

- **Click Ops to GitOps**  
  Provision EKS clusters using Click Ops. Automatically generate Infra as Code (IaC) and sync to configured Git repository.  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/gitops/ekssystemsync/overview/)

- **Blue/Green Upgrade**  
  Upgrade your EKS clusters to a new Kubernetes version using a Blue/Green strategy  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/bluegreen/overview/)

- **Takeover Imported EKS**  
  Import and Takeover lifecycle management of existing Amazon EKS clusters  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/takeover/overview/)

- **Cluster Blueprints**  
  Centralized configuration of EKS clusters with software add-ons and governance policies. Enforce continuous reconciliation with drift detection policies.  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/cloudwatch/overview/)

- **Custom Networking**  
  Provision EKS clusters using Custom Networking. Automatically manage and provision ENIs to utilize subnets from your VPC's secondary CIDR  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/custom_networking/overview/)

- **Fleet Operations**  
  Learn to manage and operate a fleet of EKS clusters with a fleet plan, enabling actions like upgrades, scaling, blueprint updates, and efficient pre/post flight checks.  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/fleet/overview/)

- **Backup & Restore**  
  Securely backup your EKS cluster resources and volumes to protect against infrastructure loss, data corruption, and/or service outages.  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/backup/overview/)

- **External DNS**  
  Automatically update/sync DNS in AWS Route 53 for applications deployed to EKS clusters.  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/external_dns/overview/)

- **Nvidia GPUs**  
  Operate AI/ML applications on Amazon EKS clusters with Nvidia GPU enabled nodes  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/gpu/overview/)

- **Nvidia Triton Inference Server (AI)**  
  Configure, Deploy and Operate Nvidia Triton based AI/ML applications on Amazon EKS clusters with Nvidia GPU enabled nodes.  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/triton/overview/)

- **Spot Instances**  
  Save costs by using node groups based on EC2 Spot Instances  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/spot/overview/)

- **Persistent Storage with AWS EFS**  
  Use AWS EFS to create shared storage between Kubernetes pods within and across AWS Availability Zones.  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/efs/overview/)

- **Windows**  
  Provision and manage Amazon EKS clusters with Windows based Managed Node Groups  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/windows/overview/)

- **AWS Fargate**  
  Deploy and operate containerized applications to on-demand, right sized AWS Fargate profiles attached to your EKS Cluster  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/fargate/overview/)

- **AWS Graviton**  
  Provision and manage Amazon EKS clusters based on AWS Graviton ARM based nodes  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/graviton/overview/)

- **Autoscaling with Karpenter and Spot**  
  Dynamically autoscale your EKS cluster with Spot instances using Karpenter  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/karpenter/overview/)

- **AWS Secrets Manager**  
  Secure application secrets and automate lifecycle management and delivery using the platform's turnkey integration with AWS Secrets Manager  
  [**Get Started**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/secretsmanager/overview/)