-> EKS is Amazon’s managed Kubernetes service, built on open Kubernetes standard
LocalOps provisions same EKS clusters to deploy your applications
-> EKS expects you to bring your own methods to deploy applications. Either via Kubernetes manifests or via Helm charts
While LocalOps can work with just Docker images or Docker files to build and deploy your applications on the EKS clusters it provisions
-> EKS exposes raw Kubernetes and expects you to learn Kubernetes & handle all intricacies and complexities of running workloads using kubectl
While LocalOps lets you leverage all kubernetes benefits without learning kubernetes.
LocalOps has in-built automation around all common deployment workflows on top of the same EKS clusters without requiring users to be proficient in Kubernetes.
-> EKS lets you decide the compute option to be managed nodes or Fargate serverless containers
LocalOps standardises the underlying to EKS managed nodes so that you don’t have to decide this.
Using LocalOps, you will save significantly more by using spot instances as part of managed node groups
-> You need to provision / setup continuous deployments in each EKS cluster, using ArgoCD or similar tools
LocalOps has built-in continuous deployments support, ready to make deployments on the underlying EKS cluster, by connecting with any Github repository and branch name.
-> EKS doesn’t have “environment” abstraction as defined by 12factor specification until you automate and define specific resources using IaC tools
LocalOps comes with in-built environment abstraction that can group together cloud resources - network, compute instances, volumes etc., and handle them all as one unit.
-> EKS needs you to buy & manually set up observability tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, DataDog, NewRelic separately on each EKS cluster to see logs, metrics and traces of your applications.
LocalOps has built-in observability in each app environment using open source Prometheus/Grafana stack.
-> EKS clusters will not enforce consistency amongst different clusters until you make it that way via IaC tools like Terraform
LocalOps ensures consistency amongst all app environments it provisions and you can spin up 5, 10, 15 identical environments across any number of cloud accounts, cloud providers, regions, environments and customers.
-> EKS needs more DevOps expertise and bandwidth from your team
LocalOps frees your team to build applications while LocalOps can handle infrastructure and deployment automation on AWS, GCP or Azure.