Migration Playbook: Bare EC2 / Virtual Machines → Amazon EKS / Kubernetes
Bare EC2 to Amazon EKS Kubernetes Migration
Containerize static EC2 server fleets and migrate to auto-scaling Amazon EKS clusters, slashing idle compute waste by 50%+.
Migration Drivers
Why companies migrate away from Bare EC2 / Virtual Machines
Overprovisioned Idle Compute
Running dedicated VM instances 24/7 at 15% average CPU utilization just to handle rare traffic peaks.
Manual OS Patching & Drift
Configuration drift across servers with manual SSH maintenance and fragile Ansible scripts.
Slow Auto-Scaling & Recovery
EC2 Auto Scaling Groups taking 5–10 minutes to boot new VM instances during traffic spikes.
Execution Sequence
The 4-Phase Zero-Downtime Blueprint
Our structured migration process ensures uninterrupted production uptime, continuous data synchronization, and rollback safety.
Docker Containerization & Hardening
Extracting applications into standardized, distroless Docker container images.
Terraform EKS Cluster & VPC Creation
Provisioning a multi-AZ Amazon EKS cluster with Karpenter and Cilium CNI.
Helm Charts & GitOps Deployment
Defining declarative deployment manifests and syncing via ArgoCD.
ALB Ingress Traffic Cutover
Shifting traffic from legacy EC2 load balancers to AWS Load Balancer Controller ingresses.
Risk Prevention
Pitfalls that derail this migration
Ignoring Pod Resource Requests/Limits
Failing to benchmark CPU/memory requests, leading to node memory pressure and OOMKill cascades.
Stateful Local Disk Dependencies
Applications writing temporary uploads to local VM disks instead of object storage (S3) or EFS.
Missing Readiness and Liveness Probes
Traffic routed to newly booted pods before database connection pools have initialized.
Migration FAQs
Frequently asked migration questions
Kubernetes bin-packs multiple containerized microservices onto fewer, right-sized compute nodes and dynamically acquires inexpensive spot instances for background workers.
Kubernetes automatically detects node failure and reschedules pods onto healthy nodes in seconds, with zero intervention required.
Zero downtime, zero data loss, senior-only execution
Schedule a strategy call to review your architecture, data volume, and migration timeline with our cloud engineers.