{"categories":[{"label":"Distributed Computing","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/system-distributed-computing/2"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Pulumi component for provisioning and managing AWS EKS Kubernetes clusters, including control plane, worker node groups, and AWS CNI networking.","skillfed_tags":["infrastructure-as-code","kubernetes","aws"],"use_cases":["Provision a production EKS cluster with worker nodes and networking in a single Pulumi program.","Automate cluster creation across multiple AWS accounts or regions using Pulumi stacks.","Manage EKS cluster lifecycle (updates, scaling, node group changes) as code alongside application deployments.","Integrate EKS provisioning with Pulumi-based application deployments on Kubernetes.","Version-control and review cluster infrastructure changes via pull requests before applying."],"what_it_does":"Pulumi-eks is a Pulumi component library that abstracts the complexity of creating and managing AWS EKS Kubernetes clusters. It wraps the low-level AWS and Kubernetes resources into a single, reusable component that handles provisioning the EKS control plane, configuring worker node groups with auto-scaling, and setting up the AWS CNI plugin for pod networking. You use it within a Pulumi program (written in Python, Go, TypeScript, or .NET) to declare an EKS cluster as infrastructure-as-code, then Pulumi handles the creation and lifecycle management of all underlying AWS resources.\n\nThe package depends on pulumi, pulumi-aws, and pulumi-kubernetes to orchestrate the cluster and its networking. It's designed for teams that want to manage Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS using Pulumi's declarative, language-native approach rather than writing CloudFormation or Terraform directly. The component exposes Pulumi's Crosswalk for AWS EKS functionality, which bundles opinionated defaults and best practices into a simpler API.","worth_installing":"Yes. The package is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, installs with low friction, and is licensed permissively. Install it if you are using Pulumi to manage AWS infrastructure and need to provision EKS clusters; it significantly reduces boilerplate compared to managing raw AWS and Kubernetes resources separately."},"id":"pulumi-eks","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/pulumi-eks","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/pulumi-eks.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/pulumi-eks/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-07-28","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"pulumi-eks","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Pulumi Amazon Web Services (AWS) EKS Components."},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":366546,"position":7204,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"4.3.0"}