Containers-roadmap: New EKS Region: GovCloud West

[joemccall86]

Tell us about your request
New region support in either/both GovCloud regions (gov-us-east-1, gov-us-west-1)

Which service(s) is this request for?
EKS

This would be tremendously helpful and encourage greater Kubernetes adoption.

[tabern]

Updating this to track EKS in GovCloud West (gov-us-west-1). Tracking for GovCloud East: https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/375

[NicolasRouquette]

Any ETA for when this will be available?

From my perspective, K8S enables exploiting AWS without regrets.

Without K8S, using AWS becomes a complicated proposition, particularly for open-source software that needs to be easily deployable within the enterprise or publicly to encourage adoption/interest.

[tedmiston]

EKS in GovCloud would be very nice to have. The best option for K8s in GovCloud I've seen so far is kube-aws.

[kataggart]

Also looking for an update here on behalf of multiple government customers. Thanks.

[weisjohn]

Any updates on this? Anything you can share?

[sebastian-rojas]

Any updates on this?

[tabern]

Hi - no updates on this right now. We will be sure to add updates here when we have news to share!

[jared2501]

Looking forward to this!!

[blabruere]

any update on the availability date for EKS in Govcloud?

[joemccall86]

If I were to venture to guess I'd say it's currently waiting third-party audit assessment: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/services-in-scope/

[nikkelj]

+1

[weisjohn]

@tabern can you at least tell us if it is being audited?

[weisjohn]

Until this exists, for those who find their way from Google, I will highly recommend using https://github.com/kubernetes/kops in GovCloud w/ gossip protocol (no Route53 creds needed).

[ktal90]

Until this exists, for those who find their way from Google, I will highly recommend using https://github.com/kubernetes/kops in GovCloud w/ gossip protocol (no Route53 creds needed).

Hi @weisjohn Do you have a rough estimate of the overhead to set this up vs. how quick/easy this is in EKS? We're thinking about whether this is worth the time investment or going another way

[weisjohn]

@ktal90 not sure what you're asking.

Take a look here: https://kops.sigs.k8s.io/getting_started/aws/#configure-dns

Configure DNS

Note: If you are using Kops 1.6.2 or later, then DNS configuration is optional. Instead, a gossip-based cluster can be easily created. The only requirement to trigger this is to have the cluster name end with .k8s.local. If a gossip-based cluster is created then you can skip this section.

[mikestef9]

EKS is now generally available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions!

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