Last week, I deployed three microservices to Kubernetes locally. This week, I deployed them to AWS EKS. What I thought would be a straightforward migration turned into a deep lesson about container platforms, cross-compilation, and production deployment patterns.
Here's what actually happened when theory met reality.
The Confidence Before the Crash
After successfully deploying to Minikube, I felt ready. I had working Kubernetes manifests, healthy pods, and services communicating properly. Moving to EKS seemed like the natural next step - just point kubectl at a different cluster, right?
I provisioned an EKS cluster, updated my kubeconfig, and confidently deployed all three services
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