From Zero to a Working EKS Pipeline: Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab CI/CD (and Everything That Broke Along the Way)
I recently built an end-to-end deployment pipeline on AWS EKS using Terraform for infrastructure, Ansible for configuration, and GitLab CI/CD to tie it all together. On paper, that sentence sounds clean. In practice, it took several rounds of "why is this failing" before it actually worked.
This post is not a "here's how EKS works" tutorial. There are plenty of those. This is the version with the failures left in, the quota limits, the IAM permission walls, the pods that wouldn't schedule, and the resources that refused to die. If you're building something similar, I'm hoping this saves you a few hours of confused Googling.
Repo: gitlab.com/nenyeonyema/terraform-eks-ansible-cicd
What I Was Building
