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AWS EKS Deployment

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Orion deploys on AWS EKS using EKSCTL for automated cluster provisioning. Juno provides an EKS Deployment repo as the canonical starting point — the SETUP.md there is the authoritative step-by-step installation guide.

Prerequisites: Complete the EKS Prerequisites guide before starting.

Total deployment time: ~1.5 hours (30–45 min prerequisites + 20–30 min cluster + Orion install)

Deployment Steps

Follow the SETUP.md in the EKS Deployment repo. It walks through:

  1. Customizing examples/eks.yaml (cluster name, region, AZs, instance types)
  2. Running eksctl create cluster (~15 minutes)
  3. Optionally adding Karpenter for cost-optimized dynamic node provisioning
  4. Installing ArgoCD to provide a visual management dashboard
  5. Configuring ingress-nginx with NLB subnet configuration
  6. DNS and TLS setup
  7. Deploying Orion via the Juno one-click installer (Helm)

What Gets Deployed

Resource Description
Amazon EKS Cluster Managed Kubernetes control plane
Managed Node Groups Initial worker nodes (CPU and/or GPU)
VPC Public and private subnets, NAT Gateway
Karpenter Optional dynamic node autoscaling
NGINX Ingress Traffic routing via pre-configured NLB

IAM Roles (Created Automatically by EKSCTL)

Role Managed Policies
EKS Cluster Service Role AmazonEKSClusterPolicy
Node Group Instance Role AmazonEKSWorkerNodePolicy, AmazonEKS_CNI_Policy, AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryReadOnly
Load Balancer Controller Role AWS Load Balancer Controller policy
Cluster Autoscaler Role Auto Scaling Group management
EBS CSI Driver Role AmazonEBSCSIDriverPolicy

For detailed IAM policy definitions and security configuration, see the Security Guide.

Reconnecting to an Existing Cluster

Use your AWS credentials and the kubeconfig generated during cluster creation. Refer to the SETUP.md for the reconnect steps.

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