Building a Modern Application on AWS EKS with Pulumi: A Practical Journey
Building a Modern Application on AWS EKS with Pulumi: A Practical Journey The application leverages PostgreSQL for data persistence, Kafka for event streaming, and a mix of Go, Python, and JavaScript components, all deployed on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) using Pulumi in Go. The cluster runs in private subnets with VPC endpoints for a fully isolated setup. The Go Code: Precision in Pulumi The backbone of our infrastructure is a meticulously structured Go program using the Pulumi AWS and EKS SDKs (github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/sdk/v6/go/aws and github.com/pulumi/pulumi-eks/sdk/v1/go/eks). We defined a VPC with private subnets using aws.ec2.Vpc and aws.ec2.Subnet, ensuring each subnet has a dedicated route table created via aws.ec2.RouteTable and associated with aws.ec2.RouteTableAssociation. This setup isolates traffic, with privateSubnets passed as a pulumi.StringArrayOutput to the EKS cluster for node placement. ...