[EKS] [request]: addon for Application CRD

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Tell us about your request Provide an EKS addon that lets people use the Application CRD in their cluster.

Which service(s) is this request for? EKS

Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard? Helping SaaS businesses run container workloads on AWS.

Are you currently working around this issue? Managing the Deployment, StatefulSet, Service and similar APIs using ecosystem tools such as Helm.

Additional context GKE provides the Application API.

Attachments GCP docs for this: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/using-gke-applications-page-cloud-console

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Adding an overall Application should adopt the workload and other objects, which means you can use Kubernetes mechanisms such as ownerReferences to restrict deletion. You have to set addOwnerRef to true to make this happen.

There is scope for AWS to define vendor-specific annotations for applications and their components. For example, an annotation that triggers integration with AWS Systems Manager Application Manager, or with a future update to AWS Systems Manager Inventory.

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A related AWS console announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/new-applications-widget-aws-console-home/