Amazon EKS — Production Readiness Checklist
Before moving an EKS cluster to production, validate every layer — networking, security, observability, resilience, and operations. Use this structured checklist.
Topics Covered
| # | Topic | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Networking Checklist | VPC, subnets, DNS, connectivity |
| 2 | Security Checklist | IAM, RBAC, encryption, policies |
| 3 | Reliability Checklist | HA, scaling, DR, upgrades |
| 4 | Day-2 Operations Checklist | Observability, cost, CI/CD |
| 5 | Hands-On Lab | Audit an existing cluster |
| 6 | Practice Questions | Test your readiness knowledge |
Quick Health Check
# Cluster status
aws eks describe-cluster --name my-cluster --query 'cluster.{Status:status,Version:version}'
# Node health
kubectl get nodes -o wide
kubectl top nodes
# System pods
kubectl get pods -n kube-system
# Unhealthy pods
kubectl get pods -A --field-selector status.phase!=Running,status.phase!=Succeeded
