Running microservices in development is easy. Building a production-grade platform with hard limits, zero-trust pod IAM roles, automated GitOps delivery, full telemetry, and an SRE incident response framework is where the real engineering lives.
This guide walks through the end-to-end deployment of a 3-tier polyglot microservice stack (Go, Node.js, Python) sourced from the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop demo onto AWS EKS (v1.31).
What We're Building:
Hardened Containers: Multi-stage distroless builds (up to 97% size reduction).
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform modules for VPC, EKS, and IRSA (IAM Roles for Service Accounts).
