[SUBMIT] Deploying a Strapi Kubernetes Cluster on Amazon EKS

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[segunjkf]

Hello I am interested in this article.

[ethan-gallant]

I don't think this is something that's EKS specific but the existing kubernetes tutorial is definitely far from proper.

[PaulBratslavsky]

@ethan-gallant is this the tutorial you are referring to https://strapi.io/blog/deploying-and-scaling-the-official-strapi-demo-app-food-advisor-with-kubernetes-and-docker would like to hear your feedback if it is.

@kimkimani since we already have an article published on Kubernetes deploy we will hold of for now on publishing a similar article.

[ethan-gallant]

@PaulBratslavsky yeah that is the tutorial I am referring to. There are several best practices in the template YAMLs etc. So while it may work, it's far from ideal or what should be "recommended".

I think some changes should be:

• Ingress / Configuring proper termination
• TLS termination with Cert Manager or the like
• MiniKube is definitely not the target here. I don't even know why it's included. Kind or similar should be used if you're looking to have a "demo" cluster, but it's out of scope imo.
• No notes on using ConfigMaps or ENV variables to pass secrets to the Strapi instance
• No notes on persistence strategy for the instance.
• kubectl expose is used but this generally is only used for debugging purposes when debugging existing applications. The exposure should be done in a YAML by creating a "service" object.

In my honest opinion something like how Quarkus handles deploying to Kubernetes in their guides would be ideal.