Life of a Packet in Amazon EKS

2026-05-01 Life of a Packet in Amazon EKS If you already know Kubernetes architecture, skip to section 3. 1. Kubernetes architecture Kubernetes has two planes. The control plane runs the API server, etcd, scheduler, controller manager, and cloud controller manager. The data plane is worker nodes where pods run. Each node has kubelet (starts pods, checks health) and kube-proxy (configures network rules for service traffic). +----------------------- Kubernetes Cluster ---------------------+ | | | +--------------- Control Plane ----------------+ | | | | | | | +-----------+ +------+ +-----------+ | | | | |API Server | | etcd | | Scheduler | | | | | +-----------+ +------+ +-----------+ | | | | +------------------+ +----------------+ | | | | |Controller Manager| |Cloud Controller| | | | |…

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