Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS and on-premises. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Amazon EKS is certified Kubernetes-conformant, so existing applications that run on upstream Kubernetes are compatible with Amazon EKS.

Whether you are adopting Amazon EKS for the first time or a seasoned professional Mantel Group has experience helping you with your Kubernetes challenges.

How do we do it?

Our process starts with listening to your requirements which are identified through a series of discovery workshops that target the 5 AWS Well Architected pillars, Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency and Cost Optimisation. We then develop a backlog of work which is delivered in an agile iterative style to best suit your commercial requirements.

Staying true to the Kubernetes ethos, everything we do is Infrastructure as Code using common tooling like CDK, Terraform and Helm with CICD for deployment allowing you to easily maintain everything we build.

Our Kubernetes environments are fully customisable to your needs but we generally include the following aspects as best practice;

• Managed Node Groups
• RBAC integrated with AWS IAM with least privilege
• Soft/hard workload isolation controls
• Kubernetes integrated with your observability tooling
• Cluster Autoscaler/Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
• Policy Enforcement built on OPA Gatekeeper
• Ingress Controller with Route53 and ACM Integration

We work with your team to build your new EKS environment preventing the need for a lengthy and complex handover at the end of the project. If you don't want to maintain the environment we even offer a Managed Service which can take care of EKS and platform component upgrades for you.

Getting started

Upon placing an order, our Client Engagement team will contact you. You will receive an email confirming your order, identifying pre-requisites to initiate delivery, and scheduling a time for project kickoff.