Cut CI/CD Costs by 77% & 2x Deployment Speed with GitHub Actions on EKS Auto Mode
On April 5, 2025 I did a live stream on how to run Github Actions Self Hosted Runners on EKS Auto with AWS Heroes Arshad Zackeriya and Jones Zachariah Noel. Disclaimer: 🐶 No Beagles were harmed. Slightly annoyed, maybe — but unharmed. The results {Performance, Speed, Cost} were not only astonishing but impeccable and promising enough to adopt this solution at the enterprise level....AWS CodePipeline + EKS Action: The Easiest Way to Deploy Containers Yet!
Amazon Web Services (AWS) CodePipeline Team has simplified Developer, DevOps engineers operational overhead and streamlined the Deployment process to EKS by introducing an CodePipeline action to deploy directly to your EKS cluster. Why does it matter to you? Previously if I had to deploy resources to EKS using DevOps approach, I had to manage codebuild project, permissions to access eks, kubectl, helm commands, other horrific shell commands and still it wont be perfect in one shot....