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How to Run WebAssembly on Amazon EKS

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This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to run WebAssembly (Wasm) workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). It explains how to build custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with the necessary components to enable Wasm workloads on Amazon EKS, and how to provision and manage the EKS cluster infrastructure using HashiCorp Terraform and Packer.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Understanding WebAssembly and its benefits
  • Installing the required tools (AWS CLI, Packer, Terraform, kubectl, Finch)
  • Building the custom AMIs for Wasm workloads
  • Creating the EKS cluster with the custom AMIs
  • Running example Wasm workloads with Spin and WasmEdge runtimes
  • Building and running a custom Wasm image with WasmEdge runtime
  • Cleaning up the resources after the demonstration
  • Conclusion highlighting the benefits of running Wasm workloads on AWS


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