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eksctl

brew install eksctl v0.227.0 Apache-2.0

Command-line tool for creating and managing Amazon EKS Kubernetes clusters.

Why you might care

Simplifies AWS EKS cluster provisioning and lifecycle management compared to raw AWS CLI or CloudFormation. Written in Go, provides a single binary for declarative cluster creation, scaling, and node group management. Useful for DevOps engineers automating Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS.

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