Production-Grade Amazon EKS with AWS CDK (Kubernetes 1.34)

Skip the theory. Learn how to deploy a secure, latest-generation Kubernetes cluster using AWS CDK patterns that actually work in production.

Deploying "Hello World" on EKS is easy. Building a cluster that is secure, optimized, and ready for real workloads is a different story. This tutorial bridges the gap between basic infrastructure-as-code and real-world Kubernetes operations.

We focus entirely on practical application: provisioning the latest Kubernetes 1.34 control plane and integrating it with the AWS CDK to manage not just the infrastructure, but the Kubernetes resources themselves.

What You Will Build

In this hands-on guide, you will architect a complete EKS solution using TypeScript:

• Latest Generation Control Plane: You will provision a Kubernetes 1.34 cluster, ensuring your infrastructure is future-proofed and utilizing the latest KubectlV34Layer for CDK compatibility.
• Production-Grade Compute: We ditch standard general-purpose AMIs in favor of Bottlerocket. You will learn why this container-optimized OS is the industry standard for security and performance, and how to implement it seamlessly in your node groups.
• Infrastructure-as-Software: You will learn how to leverage CDK’s native features to define Kubernetes deployments directly in your TypeScript code. We cover how to write and inject Kubernetes Manifests (Deployment, Service, Ingress) as part of your CDK stack — giving you a unified workflow for both AWS infrastructure and K8s application logic.

Why This Tutorial?

• No Fluff: We focus strictly on the code required to get a 1.34 cluster running with best-practice compute settings.
• Bottlerocket Implementation: Learn exactly how to configure the amiType and instance properties for the purpose-built container OS.
• CDK for K8s Resources: See practical examples of using manifest files to deploy applications (like a sample web service with a Load Balancer) without needing separate external tools.

Perfect for: DevOps engineers and CDK developers who need a reference implementation for the newest EKS versions and want to master the interaction between CDK and Kubernetes manifests.