Setup Kubernetes Cluster in AWS EC2 without using EKS

January 10, 2025

The simplest way to implement a Kubernetes cluster on AWS is to use the EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) managed service. However, it was found that EKS is expensive, with a starting price that is unrelated to EC2 compute costs, solely from EKS. To learn (save money), we will use bare EC2 instances to build a Kubernetes cluster and integrate ArgoCD to achieve CD (Continuous Deployment).