In late 2023, I added some Go code for use with Pulumi to stand up an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster “from scratch,” meaning without using any prebuilt Pulumi components (like the AWSX VPC component or the EKS component). The code is largely illustrative for newer users, written to show how to stitch together all the components needed for an EKS cluster. In this post, I’ll show you how to modify that code to use Bottlerocket OS as the node OS for your EKS cluster—and ...
