Unless I'm mistaken, it's currently not possible to set up fargate-only clusters with the quickstart.

The coredns deployment is not patched to not require ec2 compute type (cf. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/fargate-getting-started.html).

The aws-load-balancer-controller deployment is not compatible with fargate (missing vpc-id and region options). Cf. point 5.d at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/aws-load-balancer-controller.html.
Error taken from one of the aws-load-balancer-controller pods:
{"level":"error","ts":1625053562.5521672,"logger":"setup","msg":"unable to initialize AWS cloud","error":"failed to introspect vpcID from EC2Metadata, specify --aws-vpc-id

In:

NodeAutoScalingGroup:
Value: !If [IsManaged, !Ref ManagedASG, !Ref UnmanagedASG]

I get always the result None and it fails during the EKS creation.
Im using the amazon-eks.template.yaml

and always is None and everything fails into the policy

Hello!

Please make a new parameter for the nodegroup minimum size, if someone want to scale down (or zero) their nodegroup it is easier to create with this parameter.

Thanks in advance!

Document Security group behaviour for additional node groups.

• By default if no Security Group(SG) is provided we add the nodegroup to the existing default nodegroup SG.
• If you provide your own SG (if you want to strictly control access)
  • Remember to allow for core DNS queries to default SG (Add an IngressRule to that SG)
  • Allow access to/from the Control Plane SG.

The latest EKS Optimized Windows 2004 AMI has DSR (Direct Server Return) enabled by default during the kubelet bootstrap.
This should mean no more port exhaustion on Windows nodes, better performance avoiding extra hops and reducing latency on the Windows HNS. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/networking-blog/direct-server-return-dsr-in-a-nutshell/ba-p/693710

Hi all!

Please propagate the NodeGroupName parameter to the instance and volumes as well.
Ith is easier to determine which instance belongs to a specific eks nodegroup.

Thanks in advance!