Managing multiple Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters for development and testing environments can present significant operational and cost challenges for enterprises. Deloitte, a global professional services organization, faced these challenges while provisioning dedicated Amazon EKS clusters for their quality assurance (QA) testing environments. In this post, we explore how Deloitte used Amazon EKS and vCluster to transform their testing infrastructure.
Business challenges
Before implementing vCluster, Deloitte provisioned dedicated Amazon EKS clusters on AWS for each ephemeral testing need. This approach could take up to 45 minutes per cluster. QA engineers required isolated environments to test specific combinations of application components, but they relied heavily on the platform team to provision and manage those clusters. Each environment also carried the overhead of its own ingress controllers, DNS setup, and monitoring agents,…
