Of all the things you mentioned I think things related to 3 are the ones that trip up even seasoned infrastructure engineers. Are you spinning up Karpenter? Wel

Of all the things you mentioned I think things related to 3 are the ones that trip up even seasoned infrastructure engineers. Are you spinning up Karpenter? Well, my summer child, I hope you are aware of every single possible permission that EC2 nodes need to bootstrap themselves and join an EKS cluster. And let me tell you, that list is not tiny A lot of times in the “developer guides” AWS includes the correct policies as a role buried in the docs somewhere. But those guides are often not tailored to work with Terraform and the like so if you go the IaC route you need to figure them out, often by trial and error.