[EKS] [request]: Project Bophades - Run EKS containers on AWS Lambda
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**Tell us about your request**
I want the option to run containers on AWS Lambda for a variety of reasons--quick capacity surges, easy cross-region container placement, and enforced ephemerality among them.
**Which service(s) is this request for?**
EKS, with a sprinkling of Lambda
**Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?**
I would like, in addition to the current option of running containers on Fargate (which still requires a bit of setup work per AWS account / region) to also have the option to instantiate workloads (either temporarily or steady-state) on AWS Lambda via its ability to support Docker containers as runtime images.
**Are you currently working around this issue?**
I am currently not using EKS and hoping to change that.
**Additional context**
I understand that this request may sound deranged, but it's not. I already do CI/CD deployments this way via Lambda + self-hosted GitHub Actions runners; the model works, and is orchestrated via Step Functions.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing EKS and Fargate container model alongside AWS Lambda's Docker-container runtime, including the temporary and steady-state use cases described here. Done would require a defined, supported way to place EKS workloads on Lambda, with the account, region, and orchestration behavior specified.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, docker, kubernetes
- Domain
- cloud, infrastructure
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100