How to Build Production-Ready EKS Clusters: Multi-Environment Setup with Auto-Scaling & Monitoring

Learn to build production-ready AWS EKS clusters with multi-environment setup, MongoDB replica sets, Prometheus monitoring, and more!

🚀 WHAT YOU'LL BUILD:
✅ Multi-node EKS cluster on AWS
✅ Dev, Staging, Production environments with namespace isolation
✅ MongoDB replica set with persistent storage
✅ Prometheus & Grafana monitoring stack
✅ Auto-scaling with HPA
✅ NGINX Ingress controller setup
✅ Helm-based multi-environment deployments

⏰ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction
00:20 - What We'll Build
00:58 - Architecture overview
04:59 - Bastion Host Setup
07:12 - Install AWS CLI and configure
09:20 - Install Kubectl, eksctl, Helm
10:57 - Lunching Cluster
14:44 - Install AWS EBS CSI driver
18:05 - Deploying applicaiton wiht helm
20:55 - Install Ingress Controller
22:29 - update /etc/host
23:50 - accessing application
24:25 - dubug backend pod
29:36 - Monitoring setup
32:35 - Accessing Promethues
33:02 - opening ports
34:24 - Accessing Grafana
35:48 - Creating dashboard
40:33 - Staging and Prod
41:38 - what we built
42:21 - Deleting cluster and Bastion host
44:25 - outro

🛠️ TECHNOLOGIES COVERED:
AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
Kubernetes 1.30
Docker Containers
Helm Package Manager
MongoDB Replica Sets
Prometheus Monitoring
Grafana Dashboards
AWS EBS Storage
NGINX Ingress
Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

💰 COST AWARENESS:
This tutorial uses AWS resources that incur charges (~$5-10/day). Complete cleanup instructions are included to avoid unnecessary costs.

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🔗 Blog Post: https://dev.to/patil_sai/building-pro...

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🔒 DISCLAIMER:
This tutorial is for educational purposes. Always follow your organization's security policies and best practices when implementing in production environments.