Dev Tools · 2h ago
Separate Terraform and ArgoCD duties for safer EKS deployments
Using Terraform to deploy Kubernetes manifests into EKS blurs infrastructure and platform boundaries, causing lifecycle mismatches. A better model limits Terraform to AWS provisioning and uses ArgoCD for cluster-internal resources. This separation reduces risk, simplifies rollbacks, and avoids state conflicts.
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The advice is sound for teams scaling Kubernetes, but small setups may find the overhead unnecessary.
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