Install on EKS¶

This section lists the platform-specific requirements and outlines the steps necessary to install the DataRobot platform on an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster.

Terraform infrastructure module¶

To minimize manual operations and allow for simplified configuration, DataRobot provides a dedicated Terraform module for AWS infrastructure.

This module automates the setup of critical components, including:

• Networking: Creating a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), subnets, and NAT Gateways.
• Kubernetes: Provisioning an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster.
• Storage: Configuring S3 buckets for persistent file storage.
• Registry: Creating Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) repositories for custom images.
• Security & DNS: Setting up necessary IAM roles, Route 53 DNS zones, and KMS encryption keys.
• Networking add-ons (via Helm charts):
  • ingress-nginx for managing external access to the Kubernetes cluster.
  • cert-manager for automated certificate management (e.g., Let's Encrypt).
  • external-dns for automatically creating DNS records for Kubernetes services.
  • aws-load-balancer-controller for managing AWS load balancers.
  • cluster-autoscaler for automatically adjusting the size of the EKS node groups based on the resource demands of running pods.
  • descheduler for evicting and rescheduling pods to ensure they're balanced across nodes according to current cluster policies and resource availability.
  • ebs-csi-driver for allowing the EKS cluster to manage the lifecycle of Amazon EBS volumes as persistent storage for Kubernetes pods.
  • nvidia-device-plugin for exposing GPU resources to the cluster, allowing Kubernetes to schedule and run GPU-accelerated workloads.
  • metrics-server for collecting resource metrics like CPU and memory usage from nodes and pods to enable features like the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.

It's intended to simplify and standardize the infrastructure layer required before installing the DataRobot platform via Helm charts.

Installation steps¶

Before proceeding, make sure you've completed the generic infrastructure requirements. The table below lists the platform-specific steps required to install DataRobot on EKS, in order: