AWS EKS 101: Creating a Cluster and Deploying an App

AWS CDK

In this article, I will show you how to use the AWS CDK to create an AWS EKS cluster and deploy an application on it. We will be using the Fargate launch type for our EKS cluster, which allows us to run our containers without having to manage the underlying EC2 instances.

First, we will import the necessary libraries from the AWS CDK, including the aws_eks and core modules…