Introduction AWS STS-based Kubernetes clusters are common practice and a widely known concept today. Application platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (or even self-managed OpenShift) and Managed Kubernetes distributions such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) use this concept.

Introduction Containers are everywhere nowadays and their adoption is only growing as I type this blog. To quantify that statement, Gartner predicts that “by 2027, more than 90% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, which is a significant increase from fewer than 40% in 2021.

Introduction A common pattern that consumers of Kubernetes apply is to store their manifests in a git repository. This provides a way to document (by way of YAML) the configuration of the applications that reside on the platform, and also enables an easy onramp to things like CI/CD.