Amazon EKS-optimized Windows AMIs
AWS provides customers with Amazon EKS-optimized Windows AMIs, which are preconfigured with the necessary components such as Docker Engine, Kubelet, and Containerd to run Windows containers as pods successfully.
There are four Amazon EKS-optimized Windows AMI variants:
- Amazon EKS-optimized Windows Server 2022 Full AMI
- Amazon EKS-optimized Windows Server 2022 Core AMI
- Amazon EKS-optimized Windows Server 2019 Full AMI
- Amazon EKS-optimized Windows Server 2019 Core AMI
In Chapter 4, Deploying a Windows Container Instance, we dove deep into the differences between the Full and Core variants.
The Amazon EKS-optimized AMI has the following components included:
- kubelet is a node agent that runs on each node. Its main responsibility is to register the node with the cluster's API Server and ensures pods specified on PodSpec are running and in a healthy state.
- kube-proxy is a network proxy that runs on each node...